Here I thought we were done with my four-year series, Misadventures in Lawfare, at least until after the election.
After all, Jack Smith is stuck in the mud, his book-length description of former President Trump’s J6 infamia having enraged only the already-enraged, and his Mar-a-Lago documents prosecution in appellate suspension. Alvin Bragg’s case was such a joke that Democrats tend to restrict their “convicted felon” Trump banter to conversations among themselves, lest they remind the country of the underlying travesty — and Bragg couldn’t even get Trump formally convicted and sentenced owing to his own malpractice in ignoring the immunity issue. (Trump’s lawyers filed a brief in the Second Circuit on Monday, trying yet again to get Bragg’s case removed to federal court.) On the civil side, a New York appellate court seems poised at least to gut, if not to toss entirely, the half-billion-dollar damages award imposed by Arthur Engoron, an elected club Democrat in a robe, in Trump-deranged AG Tish James’s fraud case with no fraud victims.
