Posted on 02/15/2025 2:39:12 PM PST by RandFan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's drive to shake up the U.S. government drove out a rising star in conservative legal circles: A career federal prosecutor who once clerked for the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
Danielle Sassoon, tapped to lead the Manhattan federal prosecutor's office on Trump's second day in office, quit on Thursday rather than go along with a Justice Department order to drop a criminal corruption case against Democratic New York Mayor Eric Adams.
The department ordered the case dropped, citing the city's approaching November mayoral election and saying that prosecuting Adams could interfere with his ability to assist with a crackdown on immigration, a top Trump priority. Trump has said he did not personally order the charges against Adams dropped.
The resignation illustrated the tensions between the traditional U.S. conservative Republican legal movement and Trump's desire to exert far more direct control of the federal government, challenging standards of prosecutorial independence that have stood for a half century.
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My view on prosecutors is not high as a libertarian I think they're a disgrace generally with civil asset forfeiture, plea bargains, 90% conviction rates and very few fair trials. Total corruption in many ways so no big loss IMO...
Sassoon a deeply conservative prosecuter?
Conservative prosecutors have let the Justice Department rot.
BS
Is that like severely conservative a la Romney?
Conservative prosecutors side with the swamp. Right.
Propaganda.
No such thing a deeply conservative prosecutors in the district of New York.
Corruption runs deep the labels do not matter
Well yeah… like conservative senator Mittens Romney
It’s been Obama’s DOJ from 2008 until this year. I doubt he let any real Conservatives into the system.
Amy C. Barrett clerked for Scalia. I think somebody purposely sent moles to Scalia.
Must be like Anna Navarro conservative...
There are no “conservative” prosecutors. None.
If Trump did not order the charges against Adams to be dropped, then who did?
That’s a giant football to Fumble, and probably a setup to try to make Trump look bad.
Deeply Conservative prosecutors were fired by Der Biden. He worked for Biden he is no conservative
How much this radical brit socialist rag owe the us money ?
Conservative moniker means nothing anymore. The Bush clan called themselves “compassionate conservatives”. Romney called himself a conservative. Bill Kristol and George Will even said they were “Neo-Conservative”. It’s just a different position on team uniparty.
Exactly the same thought that flashed through This Guy’s mind!
IIRC, Romney deemed himself a “severe conservative”.
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