The Importance of Dissent in Politics

Jack Goldsmith is a well-regarded professor of law at Harvard Law School. He's one of the very few people that is willing to use his credentials to insert dissent into our political discourse. In an article in the New York Times today he writes about Donald Trump and says it may be satisfying now to see the special counsel jack smith and dite Donald Trump for his reprehensible and possibly criminal actions on January 6, 2020. The prosecution which might be justified reflects a tragic choice that will compound the harm to the nation for mr. Trump’s many transgressions Mr. Smith's indictment outlies a factually compelling but far from legally airtight case against mr