Trump Manages to Spoil One of Our Few Remaining Sacred Spaces
Trump Manages to Spoil One of Our Few Remaining Sacred Spaces
Plus: How Jack Smith's Re-Indictment of Trump Addresses SCOTUS Immunity Ruling
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WILL SELBER: Trump Manages to Spoil One of Our Few Remaining Sacred Spaces
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY’S SECTION 60 is in the news. I really wish it weren’t. I have friends there.
I rarely take visitors to Section 60. It’s a sacred place, one of the few left in modern America. While the pageantry of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a must-see tourist stop, Section 60 is entirely different.
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KIM WEHLE: How Jack Smith's Re-Indictment of Trump Addresses SCOTUS Immunity Ruling
SPECIAL COUNSEL JACK SMITH’S superseding indictment of Donald Trump for his role in the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol and the wider effort to overturn the 2020 election is nothing short of a masterstroke.
Filed on Tuesday, just a few days before the Friday deadline for advising U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan of Smith’s plan for dealing with the Supreme Court’s terrible decision in Trump v. U.S., the indictment contains the same four counts that appeared in the original one: conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights.
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