Soon as Trump said he'd appeal the gag order, Jack Smith added James Inman Pearce to his team.

[ancianita]

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James Pearce has covered all appeals for the Jan 6 trials. With zero overturns on appeal by the DOJ so far, Pearce will handle Trump’s DC appeals.

Politico reports that appeals court judges raise doubts about the strength of the DOJ's 200+ obstruction convictions that aren't attached to any actual assault on police on Jan 6. We might see the SCOTUS take one of those appeals cases, and overturn one obstruction convictions, thus the rest of them, but being a layman, not a constitutional lawyer... anyway, all the Jan 6 obstruction counts were part of multiple law violations, so the DOJ overall conviction rate will still stand at 99%
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/07/january-6-obstruction-ruling-00091034

Pearce comes out of the DOJ Criminal Division’s Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section, provides expert legal and technical advice & training. He's a trial lawyer who provides prosecutors elite-level digital investigative analysis, advises on and litigates in support of the lawful collection of electronic evidence.

According to Neal Katyal, Trump and his legal team are going nowhere.

[UTUSN]

1. K& big R#5

[sheshe2]

2. The contrast of tfg lawyers and Jack's team, night and day.

Boom!

[agingdem]

3. His lawyers are Trump stenographers..

he dictates and they twist his verbal victim/hero vomit into something resembling a defense...there's reason why their briefs read like a Trump rally...

[sheshe2]

5. I read a long thread on the court proceedings today.

Chutkan vs lawyer, question and answer. She was brilliant and they looked like bumbling fools.

[agingdem]

4. I also suspect Jack Smith brought James Pearce on board

because he's getting ready to go to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to remove Cannon as the judge overseeing the documents indictments...her bias and incompetence is obvious...

[sheshe2]

6. Oh my.

That sounds great to me!

[ancianita]

7. Interesting. I like the way you think.

Pearce has only been in the DOJ for 11 years and might not be as strong as Smith with regard to writing appeals re judges, but his expertise re handling the documents themselves is his wheelhouse, for sure. So how he advises Smith on how she deals with national security documents will help Smith when he decides to appeal to the 11th.

[Mopar151]

8. Coach Smith has a DEEP bench.

Strength at every position. Plenty of big game experience.

[Qutzupalotl]

9. Amazing the quality of lawyers you can get if you actually pay them.

[Hekate]

10. KnR

[NJCher]

11. trump knows he's going to prison

If you've been watching his latest comments, he is doing one of two things:

a) slurring his words and showing his continuing inability to form any coherent thought. He was out of his mind in the first place, so I can't say he is out of his mind with worry, but one can see he is even more fragmented than usual.

b) framing himself as going to prison "if that's what it takes." Watch: he's playing the ultimate martyr. Thinks he's Nelson Mandela. He thinks he will be able to continue to foment unrest even if he is in prison.

Newsflash: not gonna' happen.