{"id":15663,"date":"2024-12-10T22:05:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T22:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15663"},"modified":"2024-12-10T22:05:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T22:05:59","slug":"trump-wants-to-stack-the-dojs-leadership-with-his-personal-lawyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15663","title":{"rendered":"Trump wants to stack the DOJ\u2019s leadership with his personal lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Trump talks often about using the DOJ to target his political adversaries and people he views as foes. An NPR report on October 22 found that Trump \u201cmade more than 100 threats to prosecute or punish perceived enemies<\/a>.\u201d That includes a threat to, in Trump\u2019s words, \u201cappoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden, and the entire Biden crime family.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump also accused former Rep. Liz Cheney, a prominent Republican critic of the incoming president, of \u201cTREASON\u201d and threatened \u201cTELEVISED MILITARY TRIBUNALS<\/a>.\u201d (Which, if they were to actually happen, would presumably take place in the Defense Department\u2019s legal structure, but could involve some DOJ personnel.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s decision to name Gaetz, a staunch loyalist, to lead the Justice Department created considerable alarm<\/a>. Historically, the White House has obeyed strong norms<\/a> against interfering with Justice Department prosecutorial decisions, but these norms have no legal force. A Trump loyalist like Gaetz could have torn down this barrier altogether. (If someone like him is confirmed atop the Justice Department, that barrier could still go.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s decision to appoint his personal lawyers to top DOJ jobs is equally concerning. Federal lawyers are supposed to represent the interests of the United States, not of any particular politician, while they work for the government. But Trump has selected three people who aren\u2019t simply accustomed to representing his personal interests, but who have also likely collected considerable legal fees from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blanche, Sauer, and Bove\u2019s conventional r\u00e9sum\u00e9s also mean that, if they use their DOJ posts to pursue Trump\u2019s personal campaign of vengeance, they are likely to be fairly effective in doing so.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/criminal-justice\/385714\/donald-trump-blanche-sauer-bove-justice-department<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Trump talks often about using the DOJ to target his political adversaries and people he views as foes. An NPR report on October 22 found that Trump \u201cmade more than 100 threats to prosecute or punish perceived enemies.\u201d That includes a threat to, in Trump\u2019s words, \u201cappoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the United States of America, Joe Biden, and the entire Biden crime family.\u201d
\nTrump also accused former Rep. Liz Cheney, a prominent Republican critic of the incoming president, of \u201cTREASON\u201d and threatened \u201cTELEVISED MILITARY TRIBUNALS.\u201d (Which, if they were to actually happen, would presumably take place in the Defense Department\u2019s legal structure, but could involve some DOJ personnel.)<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s decision to name Gaetz, a staunch loyalist, to lead the Justice Department created considerable alarm. Historically, the White House has obeyed strong norms against interfering with Justice Department prosecutorial decisions, but these norms have no legal force. A Trump loyalist like Gaetz could have torn down this barrier altogether. (If someone like him is confirmed atop the Justice Department, that barrier could still go.)<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s decision to appoint his personal lawyers to top DOJ jobs is equally concerning. Federal lawyers are supposed to represent the interests of the United States, not of any particular politician, while they work for the government. But Trump has selected three people who aren\u2019t simply accustomed to representing his personal interests, but who have also likely collected considerable legal fees from him.<\/p>\n

Blanche, Sauer, and Bove\u2019s conventional r\u00e9sum\u00e9s also mean that, if they use their DOJ posts to pursue Trump\u2019s personal campaign of vengeance, they are likely to be fairly effective in doing so.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/criminal-justice\/385714\/donald-trump-blanche-sauer-bove-justice-department<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,864,431,818,660,221,1637,170],"class_list":["post-15663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-autocracy","tag-democracy","tag-department-of-justice","tag-dictatorship","tag-donald-trump","tag-lawyer","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15664,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15663\/revisions\/15664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}