Elise Jordan: Jack Smith Getting Investigated Over Hatch Act Violations Is an Effort to Keep People Calling Balls and Strikes Out of the Game

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JORDAN: “Remember first term when so many of Donald Trump's personnel, White House officials, when they were accused of Hatch Act violations and it was suggested that they should resign? No big deal. No, they didn't blink. Everyone stayed in place. And now, you know, on this cooked up plan that Cotton can't even present evidence for, it really, you know, in seriousness, shows just the intensity of the effort to keep apolitical civil servants, people like Jack Smith, who call balls and strikes out of the game. This ups the cost of doing something, of taking a thankless job, like being a special counsel, when in the aftermath you're still going to be exposed to so much incoming and have the need for, you know, legal defense for years and years in this political climate.”