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Special counsel Jack Smith made a reference to himself and a Catholic saint in documents filed in a Washington, D.C., courtroom last week as he continues to pursue a gag order against former President Donald Trump.
According to the New York Sun, Smith compared himself to Thomas à Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury who was murdered in his own cathedral roughly a thousand years ago, in his filing with the District of Columbia Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals.
“Two years after the priest was murdered, he was canonized by Pope Alexander III,” The Sun reported, adding that he was killed by England’s king at the time, Henry II, who disagreed with Becket’s church teachings and prerogatives.
In other words, he didn’t like what the priest was saying, and as such, four knights rode to Canterbury to kill Becket after the king offhandedly asked in his royal court, “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?”
Harvard Prof. James Simpson told the Sun that the “citation of Henry II is perfect — it’s the locus classicus for indirect orders: an…
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