“Once the suits are “in the system,†they can churn on for many years, regardless of changes in administration. “
No. A new president can order the DOJ to drop the lawsuits. There’s no such thing as a plenary DOJ. Moreover, the president can fire all DOJ employees. Lynch, like most communists, is insane.
We differ in that you (and some other posters) appear to believe that a putative Republican president will take decisive action against the Federal bureaucracy, of which the DOJ is only one element. I do not believe this will happen, regardless of the outcome of the election.
Just as Obama did with the Black Panthers Lawsuit.
"The Bush DOJ filed suit against Malik Shabazz and two of the local NBPP radicals who were on site — one with a billy club. None of them filed an answer to the lawsuit, putting them all into default. I am told this is the easiest way to win a lawsuit. But instead of taking the default judgment that DOJ is entitled to against all of the defendants, the department last week dismissed the lawsuit against two out of the three defendants. As Election Journal (which broke the story with exclusive video of the intimidation) notes, one of the individual defendants who was dismissed, Jerry Jackson, “is an elected member of the Philadelphia Democratic Committee and was a credentialed poll watcher.'
According to a legal source familiar with DOJ procedures, dismissing a lawsuit won by default is unheard of."
Why is the Obama Justice Department protecting New Black Panthers