Posted on 10/12/2025 10:01:03 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A few months ago, some rogue prosecutors in the Southern District of New York decided that they could turn it into the Sovereign District of New York. These bureaucrats did not understand that they worked for the president, the attorney general, and the deputy attorney general. The kerfuffle arose out of their refusal to drop the suspect indictment against New York City Mayor Eric Adams after Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, now a federal judge on the 3rd Circuit, had ordered them to do so.
These megalomaniacal bureaucrats wrote letters of refusal and resignation, including one from Acting United States Attorney Danielle Sassoon. The Adams episode should have taught federal prosecutors a crystal clear lesson: The president is in charge.
This lesson apparently has not filtered down to some of the prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia. Like the Southern District of New York, this district — directly across the Potomac River from our nation’s capital and home to some of the wealthiest zip codes in America — is a prime assignment for federal prosecutors.
Former FBI Director James Comey is now facing accountability for his years of misconduct. A grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia (part of the Eastern District), indicted him on two counts: obstruction and false statements to Congress based on his September 2020 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee about the FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” lawfare investigation against President Trump. The grand jury rejected a third count of perjury against Comey, showing that grand jurors were not rubber stamps.
This indictment sparked outrage among so-called career officials at the Justice Department. Many voiced their fury through media leaks, primarily using NBC’s controversial reporter Ken...
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Rampant DOJ Insurrection Should Lead To Massive Housecleaning, Especially In Virginia District
I agree 100%.
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