Trash destroys yet another organization, his crapification of America is unlimited, unpunished
“IT WOULD BE RIDICULOUSLY NAÏVE NOT TO BE CONCERNED”:
TRUMP HAS POLITICIZED THE DOJ.
HOW LONG CAN THE SDNY HOLD OUT?
TRUMP HAS POLITICIZED THE DOJ. HOW LONG CAN THE SDNY HOLD OUT?
The battles over the border and the census show that the West Wing is fully in control of Justice. “The fear is that Trump doesn’t even need to say it out loud anymore.”
The president’s choice of William Barr as attorney general, and Barr’s entirely predictable attempts to undercut the Mueller report, has been the highest-profile, highest-stakes move to weaponize the department for partisan purposes.
two fresh episodes demonstrate Trump’s relentless push to subvert the DOJ, and how far-reaching the damage will be to the rule of law.
First
came Sarah Fabian, the senior attorney in the DOJ’s Office of Immigration Litigation, telling a California appeals court that it is “safe and sanitary” for jailed immigrant children to go without soap or toothbrushes and to sleep on concrete floors under bright lights.
The second,
ongoing case echoes the events that got Yates fired. Last week, the Supreme Court ruled against adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, after do ents from a now deceased Republican consultant’s hard drives were exposed.
Career DOJ attorneys were troubled early on when Trump pardoned former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, who had been convicted of criminal contempt of court.
“With that pardon Trump said there were no consequences for defying a court order,” Pierce says.
“That’s a significant message.
Now, with a tweet basically overruling the judgment of the DOJ on the citizenship question,
it’s not just a perversion of the department's authority.
It’s about using the civil division for political purposes.”
What does it mean for the Southern District of New York’s investigation into the Trump Organization?”
“The SDNY presents the greatest ongoing legal threat to Trump and his people,”
“The fear is that Trump doesn’t even need to say it out loud anymore,
because Barr is so protective of him,” Rocah says.
“It would be ridiculously naïve not to be concerned.”
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