This is a customized fraction February 18 The episode of “All in with Chris Hayes” was hosted by Ali Welshi.
On Tuesday, a federal judge at Washington, DC cleared the way for Donald Trump and Elon Musk to continue his attack on the US government. Judge Tanya Chutkan, who first oversees Trump’s 6 January criminal case, rejected a request from the 14 State Attorney General, which rejected the Musk’s government efficiency department, or Dogi from firing or stopping the agency data For.
Chutkan determined that the danger of widespread damage dogs was not sufficient to issue temporary preventive orders. This happened a day later when we came to know that Mitchell King, the acting head of the social security administration, resigned when he refused to provide access to Musk’s Dogi staff to sensitive personal data.
She was not the only government official to resign against the Trump administration on Tuesday. Dennis Cheoung, head of the criminal division at the US Attorney Office in Washington, also stepped into a sudden.
As NBC News reported, Chews pushed back to freeze the property of the bank against an order from Trump’s Department of Justice and in a contract provided by the Environmental Protection Agency to open a criminal investigation. Trump’s Acting Deputy Attorney General, Emil Bowe allegedly tried to push the whole thing on Monday, a federal holiday, when, possibly, fewer people were paying attention.
In his resignation letter received by NBC News, Chewn said that there was no legal justification for such dramatic action. “(She) wrote that he was asked to review the documents provided by the office of Deputy Attorney General (ODAG) on Monday – currently sub -Attorney General Emil Bow – to open a criminal investigation under the leadership of ‘ For whether a contract was illegally honored by an executive agency during the administration of the former President, ”NBC News.
In the letter, Cheoung underlined Bov to complete the alleged pressure campaign as soon as possible:
I was told that time sensitivity and action were to be taken on that day as it was concerned that contract prizes could continue on the accounts handling the bank. I honored others in the office, all of whom have enough white collar criminal prosecution experience, and the documents provided by Odag have been reviewed, determining whether to open such a grand jury test Bills exist. Despite assessing that the existing documents on his face did not complete this limit, an ODAG representative said that he believed that there was enough predictions, which included a video where the statements were included, the executive agency Statements were made in question by a former political appointment. ,
In other words, it seems that the status of the new administration was to freeze the money first for the Department of Justice and then came with a legal justification to do so – or possibly not at all.
Chewing also expanded how she was not only pressuring the acting deputy attorney general, but also from her own owner, American Attorney Ed Martin, a trump appointment, which “Stop the Steel” before January 6 Help in leading the movement.
As Chewn wrote to him in his resignation letter:
You also directed that a second letter should be issued immediately to the bank under you and my name and order to the bank not to issue any money in subject accounts according to a criminal investigation (US Attorney Office in DC) Go out of When I explained that the quantity of evidence did not support that action, you said that you believe that there were enough evidence. You had also accused me of “nothing to do” about wasting five hours a day, except what FBI and I wanted, but were trying to get what you wanted. … because I believed that I had a lack of legal rights to issue such a letter, I told you. That I will not do this. You again asked for my resignation. … I am committed to the oath I took, and it has been a lifetime honor to be an (assistant American Attorney) in this office. I know that all (assistant American attorney) in the office will continue to maintain the vow taken by them, following those facts and laws and complying with their moral, moral and legal obligations.
In a statement by NBC News, the Department of Justice wrote, “To deny a basic request to stop an investigation so that the officials can check the possible waste of government money, not a task of valor – just following the series of command Failure to do. “
Of course, many people would argue that there will be a act of valor, actually standing against what he believes as an illegal or unjust order at the great professional cost. But perhaps Trump’s officials are a little tired of all resignations.
Cheung’s resignation comes after at least seven doj prosecutors, which was left last week instead of enabling Trump’s deal with New York City Mayor Eric Adams, in which allegations of federal bribery against Adams – which He denies – will be dropped, allegedly in exchange for his cooperation with Trump’s immigration policies. , (Both Bowe and Adam’s legal team denied allegations of engaging in a Kwid Pro Quo.)
Bov tried, and tried again, to signing an order for the officer of a justice department to give up the allegations. However, at several points, career prosecutors, in many cases the conservatives who had signed to work with the Trump administration, refused to do something that they felt that they were either illegal or inappropriate or immoral or unfair.
Eventually, Bowe found someone to submit a request: A lawyer named Ed Sulivan, a test lawyer in the Department of Justice who is close to retirement. He probably did this under the threat that his colleagues lost their jobs.
There are originally two schools here: one, as the legal scholar on my program is mentioned by the Lawrence Tribe, “Wellshi”, this last Saturday, it is that anything about the remaining in Trump’s weapons justice department Not there:
Many will argue that by standing against whatever he believes as an illegal or unjust order at the great professional cost, there will be a really a function of valor.
“The Department of Justice had 22 career members, threatened by Emil Bowe: ‘One of you has better signed to dismiss this corrupt proposal or you are all fired,” the tribe told me. “And first of all they stood together, which they should have done, as long as a boy named Ed Sulivan … who was about to retire anyway, said, ‘I will do volunteers, I will take a hit.”
“He has no profile in courage,” the tribe continued. He said, “They should have insisted on being removed. Sign Emil Bov yourself. ,
This is a perspective. Another perspective is that if all royal people leave, or are forced to resign like chews, who will be left to push back? After all, you do not think Trump wants all career prosecutors, who would not have a potentially following illegal order to leave, especially considering his new editing that it is essentially to only he and his handpick Attorney General. Say what is and what is not. illegal?
On Tuesday, Trump signed an executive order, titled “Ensuring accountability for all agencies”, which needs independent agencies to present the proposed rules to the White House for review. “The President and the Attorney General will provide official interpretation of the law to the Executive Branch, subject to the President’s care and control,” the order “stated in the order.
Clearly, this time, things are different. Trump and his co-head Kasturi are systematically destroying all the railings against their legitimate power tombs. This means that strategies to oppose those power tombs should also be different.
