CNN’s Honig Says Jack Smith Violated DOJ’s Internal Manual: ‘Prosecutors Should Never Select the Timing of Any Action ... with the Election in Mind’

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SMERCONISH: “You and I have spoken in the past of how relative to Jack Smith‘s pleadings, the election is the Voldemort, that which is never spoken explicitly. Nevertheless, if he is pushing to get the case tried before the election is he running afoul of the documents that I showed the attorney general memos that we‘ve been referencing?”

HONIG: “So Jack Smith‘s team was asked that exact question as you discussed earlier in court yesterday, and they sort of threaded the needle and said, well, no, because we interpret that rule that we don‘t do things close to the election that only applies to investigative steps and the right, it applies to, for example, you would never do a search warrant on candidate 12 days before an election. You would never indict a candidate 14 days before an election. But if you look elsewhere, if you look at the actual justice manual now this is essentially the internal bible for DoJ. We all had them printed out on our desks. There‘s a provision in there that says prosecutors should never select the timing of any action. Let me say that again. Any action with the election in mind, with the timing of the election in mind. And it‘s hard for me to square that with Jack Smith making decisions, asking for trial dates, asking for everything to be mega expedited because even though he won‘t say it, I don‘t think anyone would disagree that what‘s motivating him is the Election Day.”