When do the mass resignations begin?

[berg80]

Cheung wrote in her resignation letter that while she and the FBI were ready to ask a bank to freeze the assets immediately, she refused a last-minute order from interim U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr. to open what she called an unfounded investigation sought by the office of acting Deputy Attorney General Emil S. Bove, according to a resignation letter obtained by The Washington Post.

The US Attorney in DC is Ed Martin. A perfect example of the kind of piece of shit trump has assigned to work in the DoJ.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has nominated the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia — a "Stop the Steal" organizer who advocated for Jan. 6 defendants — to be the district's top prosecutor on a permanent basis.

Trump made the announcement less than three days after the nominee, Ed Martin, posted that he would be investigating Jack Smith and a law firm that gave the former special counsel pro bono legal services.

Referring to Martin as "highly respected," Trump wrote on X that Martin "has been doing a great job as Interim U.S. Attorney, fighting tirelessly to restore Law and Order, and make our Nation’s Capital Safe and Beautiful Again."

Martin called on “die-hard true Americans” to work until their “last breath” to “stop the steal” in a speech at the U.S. Capitol on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. He was subpoenaed by the House Jan. 6 committee and was on the board of an organization that supported Jan. 6 defendants, and he was a defense attorney for three Capitol attack defendants. As interim U.S. attorney, he launched an investigation into the office's handing of Jan. 6 cases and fired some assistant U.S. attorneys who worked such cases.

Trump nominates 'Stop the Steal' organizer who advocated for Jan. 6 defendants to be D.C.'s top prosecutor

Ed Martin posted about investigating former special counsel Jack Smith on Friday. On Monday, Trump nominated him to take on the position on a permanent basis.

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[Kondor3]

Remember when there were DoJ officials with integrity?

Former DOJ officials detail threatening to resign en masse in meeting with Trump​

Witnesses in today's hearing revealed details of a dramatic Oval Office meeting on Jan. 3, 2021, in which top Justice Department officials banded together to prevent Jeffrey Clark, an environmental lawyer at the DOJ, from replacing acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen.

Trump was keen to install Clark, an ally, in order to wield the powers of the DOJ to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

The meeting took place a day after Clark had told Rosen and acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue that Trump had asked him to consider replacing Rosen. Clark doubled down on claims that there had been fraud in the election and acknowledged he had had continued discussions with Trump, despite assuring the pair a week prior that he wouldn't engage in conversations with the president.

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/23/1107217243/former-doj-officials-detail-threatening-resign-en-masse-trump-meeting

People like that aren't going to be around to protest something like this in the new world order.

Trump pardons Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht for online drug scheme​

Jan 21 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, who was sentenced to life in prison for running an underground online marketplace where drug dealers and others conducted more than $200 million in illicit trade using bitcoin.
The Republican president made good on a campaign pledge to free Ulbricht, 40, who was arrested in 2013 and sentenced in 2015 in what became a landmark U.S. prosecution launched only a few years after the emergence of the popular cryptocurrency.

Prosecutors said some people died due to drugs bought on Silk Road.
The Silk Road website relied on the Tor network to communicate anonymously and accepted bitcoin as payment, which prosecutors said allowed users to conceal their identities and locations.
Prosecutors said Ulbricht ran Silk Road under the alias Dread Pirate Roberts, a reference to a character in the 1987 movie "The Princess Bride," and took extreme steps to protect the marketplace's operation.

Those steps, they said, included soliciting the murders of several people who posed a threat, though they also said no evidence exists that any murders were actually carried out.
Ulbricht acknowledged he created Silk Road, which a defense lawyer at his trial said was intended as a "freewheeling, free market site." But his lawyers contended Ulbricht had later handed off the website to others and was lured back toward its end to become the "fall guy" for its true operators.

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Have you guys had enough yet?

Not to worry...

There are PLENTY of recent law-school graduates salivating at the prospect of filling the void...

 

[Seymour Flops]

Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference​

A federal prosecutor in charge of the criminal division in the Washington, D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office resigned on Tuesday following her refusal to follow a Donald Trump administration directive to freeze assets of a Biden-era administration grant initiative, the Washington Post and Reuters reported.

The resignation is the latest of several similar resignations and dismissals at the Justice Department in recent days and the most recent example of a DOJ career prosecutor resigning to resist improper political interference from the Trump administration. The resignation highlights the ongoing erosion of Justice Department independence from the White House under Trump.

Denise Cheung reportedly refused an order from Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove and interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin to launch an investigation into the Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency funding decisions. Details are still unfolding, but specifically, the resignation is connected to the Justice Department’s recent effort to assist EPA administrator Lee Zeldin’s push to rescind $20 billion in grants already awarded by the Biden administration to fund climate projects.

Another Prominent Fed Prosecutor Resigns In Protest Of Trump Admin Political Interference

A federal prosecutor in charge of the criminal division in the Washington,...

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The more competent prosecutors with integrity resign, in this case over petty a directive from Emil to launch an investigation into the Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency's funding decisions, thus weakening the DoJ, the more the trained seals sit up and clap.

Political interference?

He's the duly elected President of the United States. He's not supposed to interfere with their partisan plans?

 

[Seymour Flops]

Judge orders Mayor Eric Adams, DOJ lawyers to appear in court to explain case dismissal request

A federal judge ordered embattled New York Mayor Eric Adams, his attorneys, and Department of Justice prosecutors to appear in court Wednesday afternoon to explain the DOJ’s controversial request to dismiss criminal corruption charges against Adams.

Manhattan U.S. District Judge Dale Ho’s order Tuesday suggests that he will not rubber stamp the highly unusual dismissal request, which has sparked concerns that the DOJ struck a deal with Adams to toss the case in exchange for the Democratic mayor’s cooperation with President Donald Trump’s immigration orders.

Seven top DOJ prosecutors — including ones directly involved in Adams’ case — last week resigned in protest of the department’s bid to toss out the case.

Ho’s order quotes an appeals court case that says judges “should be satisfied that the reasons for the proposed dismissal are substantial.”

“The parties shall be prepared to address, [among other things], the reasons for the Government’s motion, the scope and effect of Mayor Adams’s ‘consent in writing,’” Ho wrote.

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Beauty.

He'll rubber stamp it, alright. He can see the momentum all around him and he won't want to be run over by the juggernaut.

He'll slow walk his decision to save face. But no way is he going to ORDER the DoJ to "prosecute the black guy." Not when said Black man is cooperating with law enforcement in exchange for lenient treatment.

 

[meaner gene]

He'll rubber stamp it, alright. He can see the momentum all around him and he won't want to be run over by the juggernaut.

He'll slow walk his decision to save face. But no way is he going to ORDER the DoJ to "prosecute the black guy." Not when said Black man is cooperating with law enforcement in exchange for lenient treatment.

I have an even better idea. The DOJ is arguing the indictment was politically motivated, and should be dismissed on that basis.

The hitch is that they want it dismissed "without prejudice", meaning they could bring back the "politically motivated" indictment at any time.

The king Solomon solution is simple.

The judge should follow the DOJ's request, but to dismiss the indictment "with prejudice", since the grounds for dismissal, won't change in the future.

 

[meaner gene]

Judge orders Mayor Eric Adams, DOJ lawyers to appear in court to explain case dismissal request

Let's see what the judge says.

 

[berg80]

Let's see what the judge says.

Hearing Ends Without Judge Deciding Whether to Drop Adams Case

A federal judge on Wednesday prodded for detailed answers from a top Justice Department official who is seeking the dismissal of corruption charges against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, a request that shook the agency and led to the resignation of eight prosecutors.

The judge, Dale E. Ho, made no decision during the 90-minute hearing, but compelled the acting No. 2 official at the Justice Department to defend the rationale for abandoning the case against Mayor Adams. The judge asked for “patience as I consider these issues carefully.”
Eric Adams Live Updates: Hearing Ends Without Judge Deciding Whether to Drop Corruption Case

It's going to be disappointing if Bove/trump/Bondi get away with this blatant corruption.

 

[meaner gene]

Hearing Ends Without Judge Deciding Whether to Drop Adams Case

A federal judge on Wednesday prodded for detailed answers from a top Justice Department official who is seeking the dismissal of corruption charges against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, a request that shook the agency and led to the resignation of eight prosecutors.

The judge, Dale E. Ho, made no decision during the 90-minute hearing, but compelled the acting No. 2 official at the Justice Department to defend the rationale for abandoning the case against Mayor Adams. The judge asked for “patience as I consider these issues carefully.”
Eric Adams Live Updates: Hearing Ends Without Judge Deciding Whether to Drop Corruption Case

It's going to be disappointing if Bove/trump/Bondi get away with this blatant corruption.

I think Judge Ho should give them what they want, except add that since the case was improperly brought, it should be dismissed "with prejudice"
That means the charges are dropped like the DOJ wants, and Adams isn't a puppet on a string with the sword of Damocles over his head.

 

[berg80]

Not to worry...

There are PLENTY of recent law-school graduates salivating at the prospect of filling the void...

Not qualified graduates. Well, I guess they might be by this admin's standard. That being blind obedience and a willingness to violate the law.

 

[berg80]

I think Judge Ho should give them what they want, except add that since the case was improperly brought, it should be dismissed "with prejudice"

Nothing about the case was improperly brought.

 

[berg80]

The degree to which this case is outside the bounds of how a case like this is normally handled by every other DoJ before this one is impossible to overstate.

Based on today's coverage it doesn't sound as though Ho is up to the task.

 

[meaner gene]

Nothing about the case was improperly brought.

True, but the DOJ says the case was improperly brought. And Mayor Adams lawyers [note the DOJ lawyer used to be Adams lawyer] say it was improperly brought. So in our adversarial system, both sides want the indictment dropped.

 

[meaner gene]

The degree to which this case is outside the bounds of how a case like this is normally handled by every other DoJ before this one is impossible to overstate.

Based on today's coverage it doesn't sound as though Ho is up to the task.

That's sad. District Judge Hon. Dale E. Ho was a smart skilled lawyer.
But as a Judge he relied on the opposing sides to suggest what he should do.
But in this case the opposing sides, are on the same side.

 

[FA_Q2]

I think Judge Ho should give them what they want, except add that since the case was improperly brought, it should be dismissed "with prejudice"
That means the charges are dropped like the DOJ wants, and Adams isn't a puppet on a string with the sword of Damocles over his head.

Not good enough.

The corruption is obvious, the evidence strong and the 'dismissal' is clearly illegal.

If the case is dismissed, the threat of prosecuting Adams is still on the table because the Trump admin will have proven they have corrupt control of the DOJ and established it as a political tool to control other elected officials.

Give an inch, he will take 10 miles.

 

[berg80]

A Manhattan federal judge signaled on Friday that he won’t rubber stamp the Trump DOJ’s effort to drop the prosecution of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, part of an allegedly corrupt quid pro quo acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove hammered out to secure Adams’ cooperation with an immigration crackdown in the five boroughs.

U.S. District Judge Dale Ho for the Southern District of New York said in a Friday order that he would wait before ruling on whether to approve a motion to dismiss. Ho appointed an amicus to argue against the government’s and Adams’ position that the case should be dismissed.

That amicus attorney is Paul Clement, a former Bush administration solicitor general and conservative legal maven. He’s a lawyer who brings a tremendous amount of experience arguing at the circuit and Supreme Court level, and who has conservative bona fides that are difficult to match.

For Ho, the decision was either to approve the motion to dismiss the case or to appoint an attorney to oppose both the Trump administration’s and Adams’ defense team’s motions.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/...eral-to-help-him-mull-dojs-corrupt-adams-deal

Even though Judge Ho can't have the charges against Adams reinstated he can put a spotlight on the corrupt/illegal nature of the quid pro quo.