Nixon was in office for five years before the Saturday Night Massacre, Trump I for four before the threatened mass resignation that stayed his hand on DOJ-as-election-weapon. "In Trump’s second administration, it has taken only three-and-a-half weeks to bring the DOJ to a mass resignation event." /1 - ThreadSky

walterolson.bsky.social • 12 days ago

Nixon was in office for five years before the Saturday Night Massacre, Trump I for four before the threatened mass resignation that stayed his hand on DOJ-as-election-weapon. "In Trump’s second administration, it has taken only three-and-a-half weeks to bring the DOJ to a mass resignation event." /1

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New from me at @cato.org: "Officials Resign En Masse at Justice Department After Political Intervention in Adams Case"

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ricst.bsky.social•12 days ago

Trump, Vance, Vought and Musk want loyalist, obedient weasels, not dedicated public servants with integrity

walterolson.bsky.social•12 days ago

And yesterday's resignation-times-six, I point out in my new Cato piece, hit the department at two of its elite hubs: the Southern District of New York, famed for its esprit and the quality of its legal work, and the public integrity section and criminal divisions at its D.C. headquarters. /2

walterolson.bsky.social•12 days ago

Don't take my word for it that Bondi & Co.'s rationale for dropping the Eric Adams corruption case was "laughable," "ridiculous," and "explicitly political"; those are the words of Andrew McCarthy of National Review, who’s "anything but a reflexive critic of Trump’s legal moves." /3

walterolson.bsky.social•12 days ago

Danielle Sassoon's meticulous, finely constructed resignation letter "makes a case for why, under the Department’s own rulebook, she was neither authorized nor permitted to participate in the dropping of charges." Hagan Scotten's letter is shorter and more pungent. Both send the same message. /4

walterolson.bsky.social•12 days ago

Emil Bove accuses Sassoon of losing sight of her oath, of all things. "There, in a nutshell, is the difference between Bove and the officials who resigned. The oath Danielle Sassoon took was to the Constitution and laws, not to President Donald Trump or his line of command." /5

walterolson.bsky.social•12 days ago

Some readers may shrug because they see the Adams case as who-cares. That's a mistake, I argue. Once politics can explicitly drive cases, it'll get into not only decisions *not* to prosecute, but into affirmative choices to prosecute persons whom professional legal judgment would have set free. /6

walterolson.bsky.social•12 days ago

“In any normal administration,” as Alan Rozenshtein has noted, “the Adams scandal would lead to the immediate resignation of the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General.” Alas, this is no normal administration. Whole piece here: /7, end

dustcongress.bsky.social•12 days ago

how long till the next one - next wednesday?

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