👀 DOJ acknowledges making two significant errors during a court hearing last week on efforts to dismantle USAID
1) It said only 500 employees had been placed on leave. Actual number was 2,140.
2) Said only future contracts were stopped. Existing contracts were also stopped.
1) It said only 500 employees had been placed on leave. Actual number was 2,140.
2) Said only future contracts were stopped. Existing contracts were also stopped.
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Is it enough? Not on its own, no. One sandbag is never enough to hold back a flood on its own.
The identity of clients is almost never protected by the AC privilege, and there’s no reason to think that the privilege protects their identity here.
And yes, it’s good that these lawyers told the court about their earlier (unwitting) misrepresentation, as they were required to do.
I hope the judge rips the lying liars a new one.
So Donald is already getting lawyers in trouble. LOL
Debutantes
Entitled
Inbreds
Yeah, right.
"...contracts were paused..."
Passive voice doing a *lot* of work in this filing.
Union doesn't care which level implemented it.
Yes, there is pushback.
The media is profiting via this madness.
Focus instead of panicking.
And that was to enforce the 14th Amendment, sec 3 of our Constitution.
Trump SHOULD've been DISQUALIFIED from ever being president in his lifetime for his Jan 6th COUP.
His 1st coup was to illegally retain his power.
His ongoing 2nd coup is to destroy Democracy & replace it with a MAGA Autocracy.
This is what we are seeing in real time.
hard to tell with this bunch.
That WM privilege has led to their own now blatantly obvious incompetence.
They can claim they didn’t know but that would be another lie…
Hold them to account - report them if they keep filing false documents to further autocracy.
Lawyers telling lies to a judge is a time-tested best method of having a short legal career. Because the legal system cannot function if lawyers lie.
That has worn down our Fourth Estate.
If they didn’t know the information was inaccurate, I wouldn’t want them as my lawyer due to incompetence
At this point the outcome is the same 🤷🏻
Rn, it’s an assumption they knowingly supplied wrong information in a legal document. But if it continues, then we have a legit complaint.
Whether the information they were given was incomplete due to the rush, or was deliberately misrepresented, is undoubtedly something they're pondering.
That is literally their job.
I am as antiTrump as anyone you could find, but under the circumstances I think it is reckless to impugn the DOJ lawyers based on what has happened so far.
They're on notice. That's appropriate. And enough.
*turns paper over*
Oh, that's it.
Let's call them errors.
🙄🙄
Is this maybe the 'saving face' stage of the debacle?
Typical sloppy work done by inferior “professionals”
Trump administration takes USAID off its building lease - PBS (2/10/25)
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-takes-usaid-off-its-building-lease
'Trump ordered by judge to immediately restore frozen funding'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/trump-judge-funding-freeze
https://bsky.app/profile/calltoactivism.bsky.social/post/3lhtqi6zbjc25
https://www-theatlantic-com.translate.goog/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true
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@democrats.org for starters. It will only get worse! #RESISTNOW
They are now questioning the legitimacy of courts en masse.
They are about to eliminate one third of the branches.
And declare everything else moot
Let’s go with „baldfaced lies“.
It doesn't look like the courts are going to hold. If they do, the fascist regime is going to ignore them.
The time is coming very soon to take to the streets 100x what we've done so far.
If we were disbarred for making representations to the court on false information our clients gave to us - there would be no more attorneys.
And lawyers have to also represent shitty people. Jeffrey Dahmer had lawyers.
I think one area that Attorney’s fail is, we forget that part of our responsibility and duties to educate the public.
I don’t always have a lot of bandwidth for educating, but BS makes it easier.
And to get there, you even have to have standing to challenge whether or not their statements were truthful
Now a judge can institute action on this on their own
It’s a common misconception. ABA proposes model rules.
You would have to prove that they knew it was a lie. That is incredibly hard to prove.
And they know their client is a bunch of liars.
Not sure how that works when repping the govt, though.
Now, the attys are on notice that their clients are having an*ahem* candor issue. So any further “misstatements” will get a “heightened scrutiny” which COULD equate to a boot to the butt. (AKA sanctions)
Most lawyers are smart enough to CYA if the client/client's-staff are not being truthful.
https://www.usaidstopwork.com
So busy writing, memos, reinstating and re-trying death penalty cases with presidential pardons. Prosecuting private businesses for DEI. Trying to mobilize the FBI to become CBP agents. Great time to be a criminal. You have free pass.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/vatican-unaids-usaid-freeze-1.7455052
https://support.crs.org/act/foreign-aid-operations
(Fixed it)
I'm sure Putin LOVES this, but I don't believe Russia is in a position to provide any $ or food for aid. They have to pay the #EvilAxis for weapons they can't get from anywhere else to wage their war on Ukraine.
But if you do not have faith in the courts ... what's YOUR plan to thwart & defeat Trumpism?
All the way to the top.
There will be no more fair national elections. Any Democratic candidate that looks too popular will be stopped, up to and including death.
America is over. 249 years of Democracy ended.
I am preparing to leave for good.
However MAGAts are clustered like ticks & may dumbly overwhelm it by thousands of noxious bites. Most parasites ultimately kill the host & this lot seem to be on that path.
From here it’s hard to see a recovery with or without tears 😢.
It’s the “Let’s see what we can get away with. If caught, we’ll pull the bewildered “Did we do that?”, refile with corrections-all to delay, delay, delay.
”ooooh what’s this red button do…it’s DEI and woke to not press it and find out?”
https://www-theatlantic-com.translate.goog/ideas/archive/2025/01/hitler-germany-constitution-authoritarianism/681233/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true
BUT they were caught. Rule of law not completely dead
In ONE DAY?!?!?
AS INEPT AS TRUMP’s OWN LAWYERS!!!!!
If I disappear, it's because the IRS doesn't have a sense of humor.
A. When they file in court.
/s
Do not give in to the Fears
Never Normalize Trump
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