One of the weirdest storylines of 2025 thus far has been the unexpected heroism of prosecutors and bureaucrats - ThreadSky

rebeccawatson.bsky.social • 9 days ago

One of the weirdest storylines of 2025 thus far has been the unexpected heroism of prosecutors and bureaucrats

“If no lawyer within earshot of the president is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me. Please consider this my resignation.”

- lead AUSA on the Adams case

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ftzpltc.bsky.social•9 days ago

I've learned to be deeply suspicious of people who hate lawyers and bureaucrats. Sure, they can be annoying, but it's pretty much always because they're at least *trying* to make things fairer... and some people really hate that.

c-brighde.bsky.social•9 days ago

fuckin 🔥

resoluteone.bsky.social•9 days ago

It’s funny because whenever I heard the right lamenting the “deep state,” I knew there was a bureaucrat somewhere who’d obeyed the law and adhered to their oath to the constitution.
My sense has been that civil servants have always taken their responsibilities deadly seriously. So this memo tracks.

ftzpltc.bsky.social•9 days ago

Yes, people who hate bureaucracy are basically mad that they couldn't sweet-talk or bribe or hustle their way to the front of a queue at some point in their lives. Because that's all bureaucracy really is.

resoluteone.bsky.social•9 days ago

The right want to view government as a corporation where the CEO is the undisputed ruler. But, thank God, that isn’t how our constitution and the rest of the relevant laws built up our great democracy. Because the framers understood distribution of power and responsibility.

ftzpltc.bsky.social•9 days ago

Oh, yeah, I remember when they were big-mad at Obama for not having "business experience". And then they switched to voting for a real estate tycoon who ran a scam college and played a businessman on TV.

lerler.bsky.social•9 days ago

We don't often get to see talented, practicing lawyers flex their writing talents and overall scathing wit. The lawyers resigning over the Adams indictment aren't pulling their punches, and are *still* 10x more polite than most of us could be, in that situation.

ibewavy.bsky.social•9 days ago

Stage hands really don't like it when you drop a mic like this.

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