Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese dropped a legal bombshell this week by filing an amicus brief in U.S. District Court calling Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s prosecution of former President Donald Trump and former U.S. Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark “a major affront” to the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution never seen before in our country.
He labels he charges a “noteworthy challenge to federal authority,” and savaged Willis in what he believes is a weak case against the country’s 45th president.
“I have read the Indictment in State of Georgia v. Donald J Trump, et al., and focused on the allegations therein that reference Jeffrey B. Clark, who is one of the co-defendants in the case,” Meese writes. “The Indictment alleges that Mr. Clark drafted a letter and, on December 28, 2020, sent it to his superiors at the Department of Justice (the Acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen and the Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue), seeking their approval and co signature, and again sought their approval and co-signature on January 2, 2021.”
“The letter is alleged in the Indictment to be a criminal attempted false writing the alleged falsity of which lies in the difference between 1) the position the draft letter proposed that the Department of Justice take and 2) the position regarding the election in Georgia that was adhered to by the then-Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue,” Meese said.
The late President Ronald Reagan’s attorney general flatly says that Clark was acting squarely within the scope of his federal office when he joined in Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, despite the opposing views of the U.S. Justice Department on the subject of election fraud, as seen in the testimony of then-Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue.
Aside from Meese’s surprise attack, which has insiders wondering why state Attorney General Chris Carr hasn’t spoken out against Willis’ prosecutions, liberal-leaning ABC News also jabbed the DA this week. The television network aired a scathing segment ridiculing the DA for her “legally weak case” against Trump, Clark and 17 other co-defendants being tried under a state anti-racketeering statute. ABC actually declared Willis was throwing a bunch of questionable legal charges against the wall to see what might stick.
