This week in lawfare

[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]

said in This week in lawfare:

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.

Link to video

[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.

[jon-nyc]

[Axtremus]

All that consternation over Hillary's email server now seems so quaint.

[jon-nyc]

I bought a painting of Hilary’s email server done by Hunter Biden. It’s called ‘gee our old Lasalle ran great’.