Authored by Susan Quinn via American Thinker,
Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn wants to make sure that Special Counsel Jack Smith never practices law again.
It's about time.
Jack Smith tried to lay waste to Donald Trump, his administration, and other Republicans by practicing lawfare, and Sen. Hagerty reported him to the Tennessee Supreme Court's Board of Professional Responsibility. Smith's actions were blatantly partisan, seriously questionable, and dishonest: he not only issued subpoenas to phone companies for phone toll records of GOP officials, but he added non-disclosure agreements to prevent the legislators from being notified of these actions. Not only were Smith's actions illegal, but he lied to Chief Judge James Boasberga in withholding the explanation that the data sought belonged to members of Congress:
Smith violated the Rules of Professional Conduct by seeking and obtaining a nondisclosure order from a federal district court without advising the court of critical facts and law. The impact of his lack of candor was a violation of federal law, and an invasion of the very constitutional privileges that ensure a fully free legislative process.
Sen. Hagerty states that Smith drafted the subpoenas and Judge Boasberg probably never read them and simply rubber-stamped them; he also didn't reference the Speech or Debate Clause that requires notice to the person being subpoenaed wh
