These resignations aren’t just from deep-state staffers at DOJ - they're from ideological conservatives who were elevated to acting positions after Trump's inauguration. And their resumes are strong.Sassoon clerked for Justice Scalia. Scotten clerked for Justice Roberts.
This right here is the problem with DOJ's center becoming too political over legal: the advocacy suffers. And as advocacy suffers, the mission of the agency fails . . . so it is therefore contrary to the agency's mission to value politics over law.
This is an absolutely important point that no one is really talking about. The White House - or ostensibly a federal "agency" in DOGE - stating on a routine basis that they are posting all of their information on X, which is a for-profit business - violates federal law.A federal office cannot...
Only if there's law to that effect - but the courts don't (aren't supposed to at least) make federal policy - especially in the area of national security, which is classic executive branch turf.There's just no basis for a court to enjoin executive branch layoffs on a policy basis such as "this...
DOJ is an executive branch agency. Though it functions far better when it puts the law ahead of politics, it is nonetheless a politically led agency.It’s not the same thing as guardrails. Certainly the breadth and volume of Trump’s executive abuses are unprecedented and threatening. There...
New info that apparently DOJ made an internal decision that the Adams case was "weaponization" - and now they're being told that the prosecutors involved are being investigated. This is forking wild. Adams (who was a democrat) was clearly doing about four different kinds of corruption and...
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