Fox News Legal Analyst Says Supreme Court’s Jan. 6 Decision ‘Rips The Wings Off’ Jack Smith’s Case Against Trump

Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley reacted to the latest decision by the Supreme Court regarding the January 6 riot by arguing it “rips the wings off” Jack Smith’s cases against Donald Trump .

On Friday, the highest court in the country ruled that prosecutors with the Department of Justice had overstepped in using an obstruction law to charge January 6 rioters. The decision could force prosecutors to reopen some of the cases of those convicted for their role in the riot.

Reacting to the news on Friday morning, Turley told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum that the decision was good news for the former president because it “rips the wings off” the case Smith is building against Trump in his D.C. criminal trial.

MACCALLUM: Jonathan, do any of the rioters who are in jail today get released because of this?

TURLEY: They very well could be. There’s two aspects to this. Some of them were convicted of what is now established to be, improper charges. I mean, that hundreds of people were the subject of improper charges by the Justice Department. That includes, President Trump, who has not been tried yet. They were also sentenced, based on this conviction, as well as a mix of other things. So those sentencing decisions now have to be reevaluated. I said all along that I was surprised by how heavy the Department of Justice went on obstruction. I analogized it to someone going to Vegas and playing roulette, but only betting red. Well, basically, the court just said red’s not a bet. So we’ve got to go back and look at all of these cases, not just for those, who now have these convictions knocked out, but how they impact sentencing. For President Trump, this is a big day. I mean, I’ve said all along that Fisher needs to be treated as important as the immunity decision, potentially for Trump. It basically rips the wings off the plane that Jack Smith is trying to get off the ground in DC. Now, can he push that plane forward on the runway? I don’t know. Because if you take this this claim out, it’s really integral to his entire complaint. I mean, it’s hard to see how the complaint holds together if if he was excessive and wrong in bringing these charges. So normally you would see a superseding indictment. And as, as my friend Andy said, but I expect he’s going to try to avoid that. But for Trump, what a day. I mean, his nominees put the court over the top in delivering the coup de gras on Chevron. And then they just knocked out hundreds of these, convictions for January 6th. These citizens should not have been charged with this crime.

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