From tmz 1:05 PM PT -- First Assistant to the Cook County State Attorney Joseph Magats -- who replaced Kim Foxx when she recused herself -- says they dropped the charges because Smollett doesn't have a violent criminal history, and lying about the alleged attack was not a violent crime. Magats says his office prioritizes violent crimes in Chicago, and felt this case wouldn't be the best use of resources. For the record, he says he made this decision alone ... without consultation from Foxx.
Normally high profile cases are directly handled by the top District Attorney in the office. Only when the top DA desires to dodge their responsibilities for political reasons would they hand off a high profile case to a low level underlying.
Obama will live rent free in his little head until he dies , he's such a loser , I know. . . . . . but he's filthy rich.. Trump Suggests Obama Was Involved In Robert Mueller’s Investigation The president’s claim echoes his earlier accusations of wiretapping. President Donald Trump is suggesting that former President Barack Obama was involved in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Trump’s 2016 campaign. He pushed a similar theory on Twitter in early 2017, accusing Obama of having his “wires tapped” in Trump Tower before the election. There was no evidence then, nor has any come to light since, yet Trump indicated to reporters Tuesday he still believes it’s true: It’s a baffling talking point that high-ranking officials in his administration continue to repeat. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders did just that in an interview with CNN on Monday, blaming unnamed Democrats for being “behind the wiretapping.” The accusation has repeatedly been rejected by other high-ranking officials, including Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats. A long NBC News report published Tuesday details how Coats, who was recruited for the job by Vice President Mike Pence, has repeatedly found himself frustrated by the president’s intransigence: Twelve days before Coats was sworn in by Pence as DNI in March 2017, Trump accused Obama of wiretapping him during the 2016 campaign. “Just found out that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory,” he wrote on Twitter on March 4. Coats would find it was a subject Trump raised repeatedly. ... Coats found it particularly hard to hide his exasperation with Trump’s insistence in the weeks after taking office that Obama had wiretapped him during the 2016 campaign, according to the officials. Over and over again Trump raised the issue, and over and over Coats told him he wasn’t wiretapped, officials said, but the president didn’t want to hear it. “It was a recurring thing and began early on,” a senior administration official who observed the exchanges said. “You could tell that Coats thought the president was crazy.” Then again, hard evidence has rarely ― if ever ― stopped Trump from clinging to blatant falsehoods.
Trump didn't walk on obstruction. He was never charged with it. Also not a good comparison. It's whoever is behind the DA's decision to quash all charges that is obstructing justice in the Smollet case.
So is Barr obstructing justice for quashing obstruction charges instead of deferring to the House as the constitution says?