Emil Bove's 2 page memo directing the dismissal of the SDNY's case against Eric Adams is really weird and incoherent, even by the standards of this weird and incoherent administration, and it is readily apparent that DOJ as an institution is past the point of caring if any of this shit makes sense - ThreadSky

mattcameron.bsky.social • 110 days ago

Emil Bove's 2 page memo directing the dismissal of the SDNY's case against Eric Adams is really weird and incoherent, even by the standards of this weird and incoherent administration, and it is readily apparent that DOJ as an institution is past the point of caring if any of this shit makes sense

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actnsang192.bsky.social•110 days ago

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emmarose40150.bsky.social•110 days ago

You're in a fascist state now, so nothing will ever make sense anymore.

pawlbologna.bsky.social•110 days ago

“We can prosecute after the election” is a real move

ali-wtf.bsky.social•110 days ago

The next indictment they undo it'll just say "blah blah blah, blah blah, etc. Blah. Dismissed without Prejudice and by that time (next week) nobody will even blink an eye because we'll all be immune to being shocked.

mattcameron.bsky.social•110 days ago

BOVE: we are dismissing this case with no consideration for how strong it may be, a question on which we defer to the people who were actually prosecuting it (who are now being directed to kill it)

ryanwa.bsky.social•110 days ago

Yeah is the show going to do a deep dive on this topic? To me, this just is such a brazen and badly worded attempt to say, while we aren’t saying that this case shouldn’t have been brought, we are dismissing it for political reasons. This document is such a pathetic attempt to justify itself.

mattcameron.bsky.social•110 days ago

Not really worth going deep on honestly but I expect we'll talk about it Friday

ryanwa.bsky.social•110 days ago

Ok no problem, I was suggesting a future deep dive in holding the lawyers accountable as it seems that one way of ending this nightmare is getting the lawyers to lose their bar licenses, and this document has a footnote, so maybe a footnote fetish discussion.

mattcameron.bsky.social•110 days ago

For sure, as we've been talking about for months now the transition to authoritarianism requires lawyers and I'll have plenty more to say about how DOJ is doing business rn. Thanks for listening!

ali-wtf.bsky.social•110 days ago

Until Friday... unless Trump and his DOJ make THAT go away too. The grey hair on my head seems to be coming out way faster lately!

mattcameron.bsky.social•110 days ago

Bove adopts wholesale Adams's ridiculous defense that federal prosecutors only noticed that he had sold out to the Turkish government because he criticized Biden's border policies

mattcameron.bsky.social•110 days ago

Just don't even have a second page if this is all you're going to do with it honestly. Maybe they actually think we are this stupid, but in true fascist form it seems more likely that they truly do not care how it looks

gm0rk.bsky.social•110 days ago

mattcameron.bsky.social•110 days ago

Obviously "Merchant of Death" Viktor Bout has absolutely fuckall to do with the mayor of New York City exchanging free travel perks for favors to Turkey, but Bove *really* wants to let us know in both his conclusion and a footnote that exchanging him for Britney Griner was a mistake

mattcameron.bsky.social•110 days ago

Plenty more to say here and we'll get into it in a segment on this Friday's @openargs.bsky.social but this is really yet another example of a Trump thing that you shouldn't need a law podcast to tell you that this is both bad and wrong

hunterwilder00.bsky.social•110 days ago

At once fascinating and terrifying how easily one individual's dereliction of duty (Garland) can damn an entire nation.

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