Jack Smith on Life Support

Rodney Clough
3 min readApr 26, 2024
Flashing the Trump legal strategy: March 23, former first Lady, Melania seen in Palm Beach wearing the infamous “I really don’t care, do U?” slicker, last seen in 2018. Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty, courtesy The New Yorker (1)

The Special Prosecutor’s January 6 Case is threatened.

Jack Smith can artfully steer the prosecution of Donald Trump’s alleged conspiracy to interfere in the transfer of power.

He can’t, however, stop the clock.

The Supreme Court is a busy place these days, hearing cases it shouldn’t be hearing, and dismissing or simply punting those cases it should be hearing. (2)

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Rodney Clough

Refuses to nap. Septuagenarian. Cliche’ raker. Writes weekly.