This week in lawfare

Doctor Phibes

Oddly enough, I knew exactly what she was going to look like before I Googled her.

Tom-K

Every president goes for their own particular look in appointees.

jon-nyc

Other than that, what do you think about the indictment, Mr McCarthy?

https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/09/with-more-scrutiny-the-trump-doj-indictment-of-comey-gets-worse/

Horace

So, it'll be a face-plant by the Trump administration, thereby proving that they are capricious and arbitrary, and that the system works. Enjoy it.

jon-nyc

It seems to me that if he can’t get this thrown out for vindictive prosecution than there’s no such thing a vindictive prosecution in practice.

Horace

It'll fail on the merits anyway. Or so everybody appears to believe.

jon-nyc

I suspect she’ll get fired and replaced with another of trump’s personal lawyers.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/top-prosecutor-refusing-charge-york-175756222.html

89th

IF a democrat wins in 2028, man DC will be in for a massive shockwave as the gaggle of Trump's employed sycophants go scrambling to find work somewhere.

jon-nyc

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Wow. Trump publicly ordering his AG to arrest his enemies, even after prosecutors say there’s no there there.

Doctor Phibes

That takes the "reply all" mistake to a whole new level of incompetence

89th

I'm clearly no legal expert, but is the President allowed to tell the DOJ what to do and who to prosecute. Isn't that yet another impeachable offense? Such as this.

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jon-nyc

I would imagine the court would be fine with it in general.

I’m still curious if the law actually, in practice, prohibits vindictive prosecution. Because if the president publicly ordering his AG to prosecute his political enemies doesn’t clear the bar than i can’t see how anything would ever do so.