When do the mass resignations begin?

[berg80]

Maybe you ought to start packing your bags now. You can be near the front of the line.

DOJ will need ‘fool,’ ‘coward’ to toss Eric Adams case, says seventh prosecutor to resign over order​

A seventh federal prosecutor resigned Friday over the Department of Justice’s controversial order to dismiss criminal corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.

The prosecutor, Hagan Scotten, in a blistering letter to top DOJ official Emil Bove, said “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion” to dismiss the Adams case.

“But it was never going to be me,” wrote Scotten, who had been the lead prosecutor in Adams’ case for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

On Thursday, Scotten’s boss, acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon resigned in protest over Bove’s order to toss the case.

Within hours of Sassoon quitting, five top prosecutors at the DOJ resigned, rather than execute Bove’s order.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/14/trump-eric-adams-doj-danielle-sassoon-resign.html

Here's another early test for the admin and Bondi. Obviously, Bove needs to be fired. The problem being she was likely complicit in trying to get the case against Adams dismissed. So they will try to sweep this under the rug quickly. Good luck with that.

 

[Seymour Flops]

This will be my last reply to you until you prove the prosecution of Adams was done for any reason other than his violations of the law. I've grown kinda tired of your horseshit.

You are unable to name a single white Democrat who has been prosecuted under similar circumstances.

 

[Seymour Flops]

DOJ will need ‘fool,’ ‘coward’ to toss Eric Adams case, says seventh prosecutor to resign over order​

A seventh federal prosecutor resigned Friday over the Department of Justice’s controversial order to dismiss criminal corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.

The prosecutor, Hagan Scotten, in a blistering letter to top DOJ official Emil Bove, said “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion” to dismiss the Adams case.

“But it was never going to be me,” wrote Scotten, who had been the lead prosecutor in Adams’ case for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

On Thursday, Scotten’s boss, acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon resigned in protest over Bove’s order to toss the case.

Within hours of Sassoon quitting, five top prosecutors at the DOJ resigned, rather than execute Bove’s order.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/14/trump-eric-adams-doj-danielle-sassoon-resign.html

Here's another early test for the admin and Bondi. Obviously, Bove needs to be fired. The problem being she was likely complicit in trying to get the case against Adams dismissed. So they will try to sweep this under the rug quickly. Good luck with that.

There is a new sheriff in town. Existing deputies can follow their duly appointed leaders or get out.

This isn’t the problem you think it is. But it is a problem for your side. Trump or his people will quickly replace every one of those quitters with their own choices.

You should be hoping someone on your side swallows their pride and follows orders as they are paid to do. Otherwise, there won’t be anyone on your side left in the department of justice.

Fine with me! The lawfare over the last nine years has sickened me.

 

[jc456]

It has nothing to do with "going against the Democrats" and everything to do with taking bribes from foreign countries.

Loyalty???? You think it's "disloyal" to charge criminals if they're your friends and allies??? You do realize that Adams has been doing the old "flatter for favours" that works so well with Trump. He flew to Mar-a-Lago after the election, and dropped everything to go to the Inauguration at the last minute.

Last but not least, the charges were dropped "without prejudice" which means they can be reinstated at any time. If Adams is in any way "disloyal" to Trump, the charges will be back. If Adams doesn't toe the line and do EVERY illegal thing Donnie asks him to do, Adams is fucked.

tell me how you know why?

 

[berg80]

“In short, the first justification for the motion — that Damian Williams’s role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys — is so weak as to be transparently pretextual,” Scotten wrote.

“The second justification is worse,” Scotten wrote. “No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives.”

“There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake,” Scotten wrote.

Scotten's letter is just as damning and to the point as Sassoon's.

 

[Seymour Flops]

“In short, the first justification for the motion — that Damian Williams’s role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys — is so weak as to be transparently pretextual,” Scotten wrote.

Williams is a politically ambitious publicity hound who should have resigned long since to pursue his career as an “influencer.”

He should never have been allowed to use the prosecutorial powers granted him for self aggrandizement.

“The second justification is worse,” Scotten wrote. “No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives.”

That’s what was done to Adam’s by the Biden prosecutors.

“There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake,” Scotten wrote.

Bye then, Scotten.

Scotten's letter is just as damning and to the point as Sassoon's.

Bye Sassoon!

 

[berg80]

“There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake,” Scotten wrote.

“Some will view the mistake you are committing here in light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views.”

The prosecutor wrote, referring to Trump, “I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful deal.”

“But any assistant U.S. attorney would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials, in this way.”

Wow. Bove is being exposed as a duplicitous hack. No wonder trump picked him.

 

[Seymour Flops]

“But any assistant U.S. attorney would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials, in this way.”

Then how do you explain the last nine years of lawfare?

Strzok, who worked in a senior role on the Clinton email investigation before joining the staff of the special counsel, reportedly wrote to Page, an attorney, that the two would stop the president from being elected.

"[Trump is] not ever going to become president, right? Right?!" Page, who also worked on Mueller's staff, responded.

"No. No he won't. We'll stop it," Strzok texted back.

 

[Dragonlady]

Wow! You have a very bizarre view of how justice is supposed to work.

Prosecutors do not have to explain why they don’t prosecute this individual or that. They have to explain why they do prosecute this individual or that. That applies even to a black Democrat, who gets on the Democrat shit list.

One of the key components of white privilege is this immediate dismissal when someone observed how racist a particular action or view is.

Show me any white Democrat who has been prosecuted for taking a discount, if that is a very common reason for a federal indictment. If you don’t know of any then, what is the difference with Eric Adams?

I know you know, but you will never admit it.

There are very

You are unable to name a single white Democrat who has been prosecuted under similar circumstances.

There have only been 6 Democrats caught committing crimes since Nixon was in office, and 3 of them have been in the past couple years.

Bill Clinton was charged with perjury and was disbarred.

 

[Seymour Flops]

If Adams is so guilty, and his prosecution so non political, why hasn’t Governor Hochul removed him?

 

[berg80]

The DoJ is claiming there was no quid pro quo with Adams yet the memo it issued explaining the dismissal of charges admits to a quid pro quo. These guys are not very smart.

Second, the pending prosecution has unduly restricted Mayor Adams' ability to devote full attention and resources to the illegal immigration and violent crime that escalated under the policies of the prior Administration. We are particularly concerned about the impact of the prosecution on Mayor Adams' ability to support critical, ongoing federal efforts "to protect the American people from the disastrous effects of unlawful mass migration and resettlement,” as described in Executive Order 14165.1 Accomplishing the immigration objectives established by President Trump and the Attorney General is every bit as important—if not more so-as the objectives that the prior Administration pursued by releasing violent criminals such as Viktor Bout, the "Merchant of Death. "2 Accordingly, based on these additional concerns that are distinct from the weaponization problems, dismissal without prejudice is also necessary at this time.

Read the Justice Department Memo About Eric Adams’s Corruption Case

The Justice Department on Monday told federal prosecutors in Manhattan to drop the corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York.

www.nytimes.com

The memo contains the type of misinformation you'd expect from the Russians.

 

[Seymour Flops]

The DoJ is claiming there was no quid pro quo with Adams yet the memo it issued explaining the dismissal of charges admits to a quid pro quo. These guys are very smart.

Read the Justice Department Memo About Eric Adams’s Corruption Case

The Justice Department on Monday told federal prosecutors in Manhattan to drop the corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York.

www.nytimes.com

Quote the part that says that.

 

[berg80]

The mass resignations at the Justice Department mark the most serious crisis in its history, a darker moment than its previous low point during Watergate.

By this point, you know the gist of what happened. The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York resigned Thursday afternoon rather than follow an order from Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove to drop the criminal case against NYC Mayor Eric Adams. Under Attorney General Pam Bondi, the case was kicked back to Main Justice to do the dirty work of dismissing the Adams case, but at least five senior attorneys also resigned rather than participating in the nakedly political scheme.

I’d argue that yesterday’s Valentine’s Eve Massacre is worse than 1973’s Saturday Night Massacre, not out of some prurient obsession with ranking political scandals but as a way of highlighting the seriousness of what is happening right now.

Unlike the Saturday Night Massacre, when the top officials at the Justice Department held the line and resigned rather than carry out President Nixon’s corrupt order to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, here the higher-ups have acquiesced to and are furthering the corrupt scheme. This time, the resignations are coming from lower down in the chain of command because Bondi and Bove are doing President Trump’s bidding rather than holding the line in defense of the law, DOJ guidelines, and their own ethical obligations as lawyers.

DOJ Enters The Darkest Period In Its Long History

A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This...

talkingpointsmemo.com

As the saying goes, "the call is coming from inside the house."

 

[Leo123]

The DoJ is claiming there was no quid pro quo with Adams yet the memo it issued explaining the dismissal of charges admits to a quid pro quo. These guys are not very smart.

Second, the pending prosecution has unduly restricted Mayor Adams' ability to devote full attention and resources to the illegal immigration and violent crime that escalated under the policies of the prior Administration. We are particularly concerned about the impact of the prosecution on Mayor Adams' ability to support critical, ongoing federal efforts "to protect the American people from the disastrous effects of unlawful mass migration and resettlement,” as described in Executive Order 14165.1 Accomplishing the immigration objectives established by President Trump and the Attorney General is every bit as important—if not more so-as the objectives that the prior Administration pursued by releasing violent criminals such as Viktor Bout, the "Merchant of Death. "2 Accordingly, based on these additional concerns that are distinct from the weaponization problems, dismissal without prejudice is also necessary at this time.

Read the Justice Department Memo About Eric Adams’s Corruption Case

The Justice Department on Monday told federal prosecutors in Manhattan to drop the corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York.

www.nytimes.com

The memo contains the type of misinformation you'd expect from the Russians.

It's over. Democrats no longer wield significant power. No more lawfare, no more made up charges. It must really suck to be you.

 

[berg80]

Trump Attorney General Bondi expects Eric Adams case to be dismissed Friday after mass resignations

Attorney General Pam Bondi said she expects the criminal corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams to be dismissed Friday, after seven federal prosecutors quit in protest over the Department of Justice’s demand to toss the case.

“It’s my understanding, it is being dismissed today,” Bondi said on Fox News.

Bondi spoke after acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove promised promotions to leadership positions for remaining prosecutors in the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section who would agree to sign a motion to dismiss Adams’ case.

Bove gave the prosecutors a deadline of one hour to provide him with the names of two attorneys who would sign the motion, according to NBC News.

Reuters reported later Friday that Ed Sullivan, a member of the section, volunteered to file the motion to alleviate pressure on his colleagues. The news agency did not say if Sullivan agreed to accept a promotion in exchange for his action.

“This is not a capitulation-this is a coercion,” a person briefed on the meeting told Reuters. “That person, in my mind, is a hero.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/14/trump-eric-adams-doj-danielle-sassoon-resign.html

I don't know, it looks like capitulation to me. Not that losing your job because you won't participate in the DoJ's corruption is a small thing. But this is just straight up caving in to pressure to be part of this farce. It's a disgrace.

 

[berg80]

It's over. Democrats no longer wield significant power. No more lawfare, no more made up charges. It must really suck to be you.

As you know, the only lawfare that went on was trump's efforts to delay his criminal trials until after the election. You know........seeing as the evidence of his guilt was overwhelming.

 

[berg80]

It's over. Democrats no longer wield significant power. No more lawfare, no more made up charges. It must really suck to be you.

The corrupt quid pro quo is right out in the open. BTW, as far as your insipid "lawfare" talking point goes, fuck off.

Trump border czar warns New York Mayor Eric Adams not to violate ‘agreement’ as DOJ orders dismissal of case against him​

President Donald Trump’s border czar implicitly warned New York Mayor Eric Adams during a joint televised interview Friday to follow through on his promise to allow federal immigration authorities into the city’s massive jail complex on Rikers Island.

“If he doesn’t come through, I’ll be back in New York City, and we won’t be sitting on a couch,” Trump immigration chief Thomas Homan said Friday in a joint interview with Adams on “Fox and Friends.”

“I’ll be in his office, up his butt, saying, ‘Where the hell is the agreement we came to?’” Homan said.

Adams chuckled nervously during Homan’s comment, saying only, “We’re going to deliver for the safety of the people of this city.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/14/trump-immigration-eric-adams-doj-danielle-sassoon.html?recirc=taboolainternal

 

[Leo123]

As you know, the only lawfare that went on was trump's efforts to delay his criminal trials until after the election. You know........seeing as the evidence of his guilt was overwhelming.

Fake criminal trials. How long are you guys going to perpetrate those lies? No one believes you. You LOST..You're OVER..Let it go.... We control things now and payback's gonna be a bitch. (already is by the sound of Yours' and Democrats' squealing)

 

[berg80]

In trump 2.0 there are no Jim Comey's telling trump to stick it over the corrupt request to leave Mike Flynn alone. There are no WH counsels like Don McGahn refusing to carry out trump's corrupt requests to obstruct justice in the Mueller investigation. There are only yes men.

What's happening is so much worse than I imagined because I never imagined Repubs would go along with it. Not with this. They are completely cowed. It's a shameful disgrace. Especially when you consider what a colossal piece of shit trump is.

I just saw some reporting suggesting there are conversations going on in NY with the AG and governor's office about Adams' fate. If the presiding judge fails in his responsibilities look for Adams to be removed by Hochul or charged by James.

 

[berg80]

Fake criminal trials.

There is no reason to believe that factually. It's just bullshit rhetoric coming from the guy who was charged with crimes.