Commentary: A civil rights conspiracy charge matches Donald Trump’s alleged crimes
by Patrick Deady, Chicago Tribune
Jul 28, 2023
2 minutes
When it finally leaked that one of the three possible criminal offenses referenced in the target letter sent to Donald Trump by the special counsel involved the civil rights conspiracy statute, some commentators’ knee-jerk reaction was that this was a novel charge, an unexpected and untested legal theory. It was proof, in other words, that the special counsel’s case was too weak to support the more
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