MS NOW Legal Analyst on Comey, SPLC Probe: ‘Real Affront to the Rule of Law’

MCQUADE: “Yeah, I think this is a real affront to the rule of law. The idea behind that policy in DoJ’s principles of federal prosecution to refrain from filing charges unless you believe you can prove the case at trial and sustain that conviction on appeal is to avoid putting people through the wringer. You know, it’s not enough to believe in your heart that they’re guilty. You have to also be believe that you can prove that case at trial. If instead the standard is, let’s just throw it at the wall and see what we can get. That is a very dangerous place to be. And I also think that one of the things we’ve seen now with the southern poverty law center case with this case, some of the other cases that we saw against, for example, the members of Congress who made that video in which they simply stated the accurate statement of the law, that service members are entitled to refuse an unlawful order is we’re just going to try to file charges against you, and maybe we can even win by losing.”

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MS NOW Legal Analyst on Comey, SPLC Probe: ‘Real Affront to the Rule of Law’‘You have to also be believe that you can prove that case at trial’News & PoliticsRUSH EXCERPT:MCQUADE: “Yeah, I think this is a real affront to the rule of law. The idea behind that policy in DoJ’s principles of federal prosecution to refrain from filing charges unless you believe you can prove the case at trial and sustain that conviction on appeal is to avoid putting people through the wringer. You know, it’s not enough to believe in your heart that they’re guilty. You have to also be believe that you can prove that case at trial. If instead the standard is, let’s just throw it at the wall and see what we can get. That is a very dangerous place to be. And I also think that one of the things we’ve seen now with the southern poverty law center case with this case, some of the other cases that we saw against, for example, the members of Congress who made that video in which they simply stated the accurate statement of the law, that service members are entitled to refuse an unlawful order is we’re just going to try to file charges against you, and maybe we can even win by losing.”Video filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Audio filesFullCompactSort byDateSummaryRelevancePopularityPer page81216Recipient e-mailMessage (optional)Preview

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