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OA651: Special Counsel Jack Smith is Bad News for Trump

Opening Arguments

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Do You Really Want to Defund the Department of Justice?

The budget shall include a request for assignment of personnel with a description of the qualifications needed. That's mandamus language, baby. The regs say you build the budget and they then shall fund it up. So there is absolutely no risk as far as I can tell that Republican shenanigans could shut down the special counsel effectively by defunding that.

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