The same people who lied about the lawfare against Donald Trump for the past 10 years now get to define who "deeply conservative" prosecutors are?
-PJ
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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It took 4 writers to create this misinformation.
This article was paid for using taxpayer funds.
Maybe she can do hair, like Vidal.
Conservative and liberal are dependent on where one is holding the reading glasses on his nose.
“…challenging standards of prosecutorial independence that have stood for a half century.”
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So, what was the standard before? Was it necessarily worse? What I know iafter many years in the legal profession is that justice is NOT blind - so the question then becomes whether it should be left to unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats (who are theoretically neutral, but in practice almost always Left-leaning), or in the hands of political appointees who are at least indirectly accountable through the elected officials who appointed them? I choose the latter - because then there is no illusion of prosecutorial neutrality. Besides, I would hardly say that the last 4 years have shown ANY “prosecutorial independence.”
Does it run in the fam?
Great rule! Home run!
The same people who lied about the lawfare against Donald Trump for the past 10 years now get to define who "deeply conservative" prosecutors are?
-PJ
It is a plus for society that these compromised losers were fired.
Fake news Reuters. The prosecutors were getting dumped anyway. The rats nest of the DOJ is being cleansed.
Yeah all 4 “deeply conservative” prosecutors? Wow that’s something!
Sounds pretty fishy. Conservatives were able to stomach what the Justice Dept. did under Biden for four years, but this one decision by Trump caused them to leave?
USAID whore Reuters speaks.
Lol.
BS!
No, they're not.
They're bidenstooges.
There were no whistleblowers from the DOJ in NY state before the elections. Yet, the shenanigans of the DOJ was obvious. Therefore, there are NO DEEPLY conservative DOJ prosecutors in NY. More propaganda from an agency taking government taxpayer money to lie.
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