Follow-up to previous posting – Judge Chutkin unsealed Jack Smith’s redacted immunity brief v Trump see The Cornerstone of Democracy, Essentials, October 2, 2024: A compendium of the best reporting and commentary surrounding the pivotal 2024 elections in the United States….What you will find are links, with brief commentary, to work that I believe advances the conversation we should be having about America’s – and the world’s – future. Remember: Everything is at stake this year. (Unfortunately, some of the work I point to is behind paywalls.) Jack Smith, the federal special counsel in the Trump Jan. 6 case (and Florida stolen classified documents case), has done his best to explain to the American people what kind of criminal occupied the White House from 2017 until early 2021. As Rick Hasen explains in this scathing piece (if you hit a paywall, try this), there is another culprit in what’s shaping up to be a miscarriage of justice, which in this case means not a wrongful conviction but the prevention of reaching a rightful one. Actually, many culprits: the ever-venal Mitch McConnell; a tortoise-like Biden attorney general, Merrick Garland; but most of all the Supreme Court, which twisted history and the Constitution to invent king-like immunity for presidents and ex-presidents who led crime waves from the White House, at least ones named Trump. The only possible way to get the full details will be via a Harris win and continued prosecution, but don’t discount this court majority finding a way to thwart justice anyway. Note: The Smith filing (pdf) is, as usual, well written and understandable even if you don’t know anything about the law…