Posted on 11/24/2024 8:37:35 AM PST by MtnClimber
President-elect Donald Trump’s staunchest personal legal defenders are set to transform into his Department of Justice leadership team and will, if confirmed, face their toughest loyalty test yet as they aim to fulfill Trump’s federal law enforcement visions.
Trump’s personal lawyers will fill three of the most powerful positions at the DOJ, while former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who defended Trump during his first impeachment, will helm the department as attorney general. Some legal experts say Trump’s gravitation toward loyalists could serve him well, while others have raised caution flags over it.
Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor emeritus who defended Trump during his first impeachment alongside Bondi, told the Washington Examiner he thought Trump’s choices were sensible and that the president-elect “likes to test people.”
“It’s not surprising to me that he wants to pick people who have proven themselves to be successful advocates,” Dershowitz said. “Look, I think all presidents want to have trusted people in the Justice Department.”
However, Dershowitz also indicated that Trump’s onetime defenders will have a different relationship with the president-elect when placed in their government roles. Similar to how Trump’s former attorneys general, Bill Barr and Jeff Sessions, fell out of favor with Trump after the pair each challenged his demands, Bondi or the others could meet similar fates.
“The job of Attorney General is impossible because it merges both a political job requiring loyalty with a prosecutorial job requiring complete objectivity, and no human being is capable of doing that,” Dershowitz said.
Trump’s aggressive law enforcement plans include deporting millions of illegal immigrants and quashing national diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. But Trump’s DOJ will also run the president-elect’s revenge tour, which will involve targeting the DOJ officials who investigated and prosecuted Trump, pardoning what Trump has described as a “large portion” of Jan. 6 defendants, and digging up any evidence of fraud from the 2020 election, which Trump continues to falsely claim he won.
Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, whom Trump named as the No. 2 and No. 3 leaders under Bondi at the DOJ, will be behind the scenes running that show and will face pressure to carry out the plans in a manner that can survive scrutiny from judges.
Blanche and Bove developed their bona fides by defending Trump in his criminal cases and were primarily involved in leading Trump’s legal team in New York. ......................................................... SNIP
“Gaetz had the requisite amount of antipathy against DOJ and would have nuked them. Bondi is just climbing up the greasy pole.”
I’m afraid that is true.
Still, the worst pick so far is the Surgeon General chick. (IMO)
draw sabors.
Unless there is splash back, they have no incentive to stop. It is not like they have a conscience bugging them about being immoral.
Donald Trump’s staunchest personal legal defenders are set to transform into his Department of Justice leadership team and will, if confirmed.
Sure would be a nice time to start releasing photos of some people and their umm friends.
Freelancers are all over the place with no connections?.
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