This thread spells it out: Jack Smith has clearly decided to be 2024’s James Comey. To which: okay. No, I didn’t like when Comey did it, but a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. I’m okay with it when I like the result.

I may be naive about this but I don’t think Comey was deliberately trying to tank Clinton’s campaign. I think he got dealt a difficult hand and made some terrible decisions about how to proceed. That said, I am really in favor of any kind of ratfucking that will prevent Trump’s re-election

Nah, Comey hadn't been prosecuting Clinton through interminable delays, including a rule of law wrecking detour through the Supreme Court packed with her own corrupt appointees.

Also, this should have all come out 2 years ago. Conservatives wanted this to grind glacially and set up the incentives to get that. And ground it has

I guess my thought is that it's dragged out this far because many parties (Trump and those partial to him) wanted to try to push it out or get rid of it. This feels a lot different from Comey because Comey did something unusual and probably against protocol.

Is this ends-driven reasoning? Yes. But most people’s reasoning is ends-driven. I’m just willing to say it out loud. You can’t be a hypocrite if you never cared about consistency, is how I see it.

He's not though, he didn't dictate the timing of this. Trump dictated the timing. The problem i had with Comey/Hilary was the timing.

If not for the various delay tactics, this would have all come out long ago

SCOTUS’s implied message was that it is for the electorate to decide whether he committed crimes on November 5th. It would be an injustice to conceal the relevant evidence from the public in view of that.

Except there's a very important distinction: Clinton never committed any crimes. Trump did. Wishing for consistency of outcomes in this situation is like wishing for the consistency that everybody go to prison, regardless of whether you're guilty or innocent.

I do think there’s a difference between Comey rushing something into the public sphere that wasn’t fully vetted and Smith/Chutkan finally releasing something long overdue (and mostly known) that they were prevented from releasing earlier because of the defendant and SCOTUS egregiously delaying them.