Don Brown is a former U.S. Navy JAG officer, a former Special Assistant United States Attorney, and a prolific author. He is a frequent contributor to Fox News and other media outlets and is currently licensed to practice law in North Carolina and South Carolina.

Jack Smith, a Modern-Day Lilliputian, Wants to Rewrite the Sixth Amendment to Favor the Government Over the People

Once again, Jack Smith, the principal culprit of election interference in the 2024 election, demonstrates either a blatant disregard of the Constitution or a demonstrable ignorance of it. Take your pick. Now, Dirty Jack wants to bastardize and rewrite the Sixth Amendment’s “Speedy Trial” Clause, to assign a new meaning exactly opposite of Constitutional intent. He demands, get this, a “speedy trial” on behalf of

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Bitter Mike Pence, America’s Newest “Constitutional Scholar”

If you once served as Vice President of the United States, polling below 5% in your own party’s presidential primary can trigger a stream of unbridled bitterness. Case in point, Mike Pence, who, in a Real Clear Politics poll published through August 2, 2023, polled at 4.8 percent among Republican voters, trailing the previously-unheard-of Vivek Ramaswamy, who had 5.2 percent.[1] Like a freezing cold bucket

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It’s Time to Prosecute the Prosecutors: Congress Must Enact “Rogue Prosecutor Laws”

The further we drift from the constitutional rule in this country, the less shocking the shocking will become. A few years ago the notion of an incumbent American president prosecuting his political opponent, for so-called “crimes” involving the opponent’s speech, would have shocked America’s conscience beyond comprehension. This totalitarianism tactic happens in Russia, where  Putin jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny,[1] or Venezuela, where Nicolás Maduro

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Smith’s Prosecution of Trump is a Violation of Federal Law

In the 48 hours since Jack Smith and his prosecutors dropped a multi-count federal indictment against President Trump, multiple grounds have surfaced warranting dismissal of the embarrassing prosecutorial sideshow in South Florida.  Already, Smith’s indictment faces multiple legal challenges. The Presidential Records Act, the big red elephant in the room ignored by Smith, at 44 USC §2205 (3),[1] gives a former president unrestrained access to

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A TRUMP-DeSANTIS UNITY TICKET? Not if the Constitution has anything to say about it.

This past Friday, when Megyn Kelly interviewed fellow former Fox News host Dan Bongino, Ms. Kelly broached the topic of a possible Trump-DeSantis presidential ticket, with Kelly opining that DeSantis as Trump’s running mate would attract Republicans from across the board. Bongino, who knows Trump, thinks Trump would never go for it.[1] In raising the topic, Kelly joined several prominent media outlets in the past

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Did a 21-Year-Old Air Guardsman Just Expose Biden’s Violation of the War Powers Act?

Last week, the mainstream media gleefully reported the arrest of a low-ranking, 21-year-old Air National Guardsman from Massachusetts named Jack Teixeira, who apparently, on an internet chat site, divulged state secrets in violation of the Espionage Act and embarrassed the Biden Administration. A small army of combat-fatigued FBI agents, wearing combat helmets and camos, armed with AR-15s and looking like 82nd Airborne Division wannabes parachuting

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