The Hammer Drops at Justice

New leadership and new rules are too much for sanctimonious DOJ employees, who resign rather than follow orders to depoliticize the department.

In a scathing nine-page letter, the acting deputy attorney general detailed a long list of insubordination and politicking by Danielle Sassoon, the temporary U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, related to her refusal to drop the federal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams as instructed. Last September, the then-U.S. Attorney for SDNY handed down a five-count indictment against the Democratic mayor, a move some considered political retribution for Adams’ intraparty squabbles with the Biden administration.

A review by the Trump Department of Justice, consistent with the president’s executive order to halt the weaponization of the DOJ, determined the investigation into Adams had “accelerated after Mayor Adams publicly criticized President Biden's failed immigration policies,” Bove wrote. Bove, who once worked as a prosecutor in the SDNY office, further explained the case represented “election interference”—Adams is up for re-election this year—and “imposed on Mayor Adams' ability to govern and cooperate with federal law enforcement to keep New York City safe.” (Bove also noted the apparent political aspirations of Damian Williams, her predecessor responsible for the Adams case.

But Sassoon, also in typical fashion for federal prosecutors, sanctimoniously touted her alleged “principles” and loyalty to the rule of law as reasons to defy Bove’s order. ...

Which is why the departure of folks like Sassoon and Scotten are welcome news. Their self-serving, media-whoring exit letters have nothing to do with upholding the law and everything to do with advancing their personal and perhaps political interests.

“DOJ” - another deliberate Lying Leftist misnomer meant to confuse and unconstitutionally consolidate gov’t power. Here, the Left as usual is trying to blur the separation of Executive and Judicial Branches.

The legal dept of the Executive Branch is called the Office of the Atty General - OAG. It is a prosecutorial function.

Calling the prosecutor’s dept “DOJ” is confusing the Executive Branch function of the prosecutor with the Judicial Branch.

STOP CALLING THE OFFICE OF THE ATTY GENRAL (OAG) THE DEPT OF JUSTICE (DOJ)!!!

“If that guy had an ounce of sense, he’d be seeking residence in a non extradition county. He’s got to be on someone’s list....”

When Strzok testified before Congress, he had the attitude of a man who was absolutely positive the deep state would always be in control of the DOJ and FBI.

The same way as in Trump’s impeachment hearing, Alex Vindman testified as if he was absolutely positive the deep state would always be in charge of the State Department and Pentagon.

Both may had made a major miscalculation.

The legal dept of the Executive Branch is called the Office of the Atty General - OAG. It is a prosecutorial function.

It has been the Deparetment of Justice since 1870. The Attorney General is the head of the Department of Justice.

The Department of Justice (DoJ) is the legal department of the Executive Branch. The Office of the Attorney General and Office of the Solicitor General are offices within the Department of Justice.

https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/jmd/legacy/2013/10/23/act-pl41-97.pdf

CHAP. CL.—An Act to establish the Department of Justice.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there shall be, and is hereby, established an executive department of the government of the United States, to be called the Department of Justice, of which the Attorney-General shall be the head. His duties, salary, and tenure of office shall remain as now fixed by law, except so far as they may be modified by this act.
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be in said Department an officer learned in the law, to assist the Attorney-General in the performance of his duties, to be called the solicitor-general, and who, in case of a vacancy in the office of Attorney-General, or in his absence or disability, shall have power to exercise all the duties of that office. There shall also be continued in said Department the two other officers, learned in the law, called the assistants of the Attorney-General, whose duty it shall be to assist the Attorney-General and solicitor-general in the performance of their duties, as now required by law.
SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after the time when this act takes effect, the solicitor of the treasury and his assistants, the solicitor of internal revenue, the solicitor and naval judge advocate general, who shall hereafter be known as the naval solicitor, and the clerks, messengers, and laborers employed in the office of the Attorney-General, and in the offices of the solicitor of the treasury, naval solicitor, andsolicitor of internal revenue, and the law officer in the Department of State, now designated as the examiner of claims in said Department, shall be transferred from the Departments with which they are now associated to the Department of Justice; and said officers shall exercise their functions under the supervision and control of the head of the Department of Justice.
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SEC. 19. And he it further enacted, That this act shall take effect and This act when be in force from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy.
APPROVED, June 22, 1870.

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