From CNN
this very troubling article shows another Trump revenge step that he promised
with this startling headline:
“Trump Justice Department fires officials who investigated Trump and
launches ‘special project’ into January 6 cases”
More than a dozen
officials who worked on the criminal investigations into Trump have been fired,
according to sources familiar with the matter.
A letter from Acting
AG James McHenry to the officials said they cannot be “trusted to faithfully
implement Trump’s agenda” and that: “You
played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump. The proper
functioning of government critically depends on the trust superior officials
place in their subordinates. Given your significant role in prosecuting the
President, I do not believe that the leadership of the Department can trust you
to assist in implementing the President’s agenda faithfully.”
The firings come as the Trump administration is taking concrete steps to investigate prosecutors who oversaw the criminal cases against January 6 defendants after Trump vowed to seek retribution as a key pledge of his campaign, according to multiple sources who have seen an internal memo on the matter.
My Insert Critical on this Issue
The Legal Landscape: In 1933, President FDR asked William
R. Humphrey, a member o: the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for his
resignation because Roosevelt felt that the work of the FTC could be “carried
out most effectively with Roosevelt-appointed administrators as opposed to
those who worked under the previous administration.”
History: The statute that created the FTC had given its
commissioners, like Humphrey: “For cause protections from removal.” That
means that a President could not
remove them merely for political reasons or differences of opinion.
SCOTUS Case: Humphrey's Executor v. United States, 295 U.S. 602 (1935). After hearing a
challenge to a presidential order removing Humphrey from his position at the
FTC, the Supreme Court issued its unanimous decision that held that appointees
at the head of quasi-judicial agencies structured like the FTC, et al, can
be protected from at-will removal even by the President.
Ed Martin, a 2020 election denier and who also defended the January 6 rioters, and is now the interim U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C. launched an investigation into prosecutors who brought obstruction charges under US Code 1512(c) against some rioters that were ultimately tossed because of a Supreme Court decision last summer.
Referring to the
effort as a “special project,” Martin wrote in the memo that the attorneys
should: “Hand over all information
you have related to the use of 1512 charges, including all files, documents,
notes, emails, and other information and submit a report on the probe by Friday.”
He then referenced
the Supreme Court ruling saying: “We need to get to the bottom of it” (the cite was the June SCOTUS ruling that limited the power of federal prosecutors to pursue obstruction charges against the
January 6 rioters).
Martin’s demand for documents also extends to prosecutors who have since left the U.S attorney’s office.
The move comes as the DOJ has already seen a dramatic shakeup as
officials connected to high-profile investigations have been reassigned,
including the now-dismissed case against Trump himself for his efforts to
overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Prosecutors who worked on January 6 cases told CNN that the memo raises concerns that Trump’s DOJ is beginning to “investigate the investigators,” as he’s long threatened.
One person who worked on Capitol riot
cases told CNN that prosecutors don’t know whether this investigation is
looking to bring criminal or civil charges, and that some are starting to hire
their own lawyers for their defense.
Related article here and here and especially here!!!
My 2 Cents: All this on top of the EO’s signed by Trump are collectively very worrisome, concerning, and quite frankly damn scary. Why?
There appears at this point to be no guardrails against the wild things Trump is implementing and doing.
The guardrails are not just blocked but are manned with Trump loyalists against anything good and decent to stop his revenge steps. We have never ever seen anything like this in our nation’s history.
I honestly fear that a Civil War looms and ready to erupt and on a scale that will wipe out millions and millions of Americans and open up the door to foreign forces to intervene and finish us off.
All that we know and love would be lost. That love and greatness will be gone due to the loyalty to one man: King Donald the 47th.
That is not hyperbole but is the reality right in front of us right now every hour of every day and every minute.
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