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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a simple question--can't this get the guy who said he'd drop the charges disbarred?  It's clear that it's an illegal move.  Others from DOJ are publicly saying it's illegal.  So ... how does this not injure him?[/quote]
Another question - DP here - why doesn’t Bove file the dismissal and argue for it himself?[/quote]

This is a way to get attorneys to resign without any severance or lawsuits. Eventually they will find a lawyer to sign their name and then will fire the lawyer when they have issues with their bar license.[/quote]

Why not call the bluff?  Let her fire them.  Then they can all file a lawsuit.  Especially since the woman in NY already made it so public as to what is happening.  I would that would be the smarter chess move in this scenario instead of retreating the King.  [/quote]

This happens in US Attorney's offices.  DOJ steps in and says don't prosecute.  I've posted this before.  I know for a fact this is true.  It's not frequent, but it happens.[/quote]
NP. [b]I'm a former prosecutor turned big law attorney turned in-house decisionmaker.[/b] It is actually the norm for DOJ to supersede and direct the USAO's decision making on cases with political significance and backseat drive the entire process.

The media is playing up this current instance because there is an agenda to make Trump look bad. Also, Trump's cronies have zero finesse. You just don't put some things in writing unless you're a moron. These people are morons.

Now, I'm not saying that the practice of setting aside the letter of the law and letting politics be the deciding factor in charging, negotiations, and dismissals is a good thing. But that's how things are and that practice does not change from administration to administration. [/quote]

No, you're not. You're full of it. And seven experienced DOJ lawyers who resigned say you are too.

Just read the motion they filed asking for the case to be dismissed. I've never read a motion where every paragraph begins with

[i]“The Acting Deputy Attorney General has determined…and has directed…”

“The Acting Deputy Attorney General has also concluded…”[/i]  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:

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The PP is not wrong. DOJs under past Democratic administrations have done similar things. Whether you agree with the current DOJs decision is irrelevant. If it has the authority, and the judge does not find the exercise of that authority is improper, then prosecutorial discretion rules the day.

Prosecutors who spent years on a case have a vested interest in seeing it through to the end, and may have also lost some degree of objectivity (not saying that's the case here). New AGs have the right to direct where prosecutorial resources should go, and politics often plays a role.

Welcome to the real world. [/quote]

If this was only a case of the usual prosecutor's discretion, then 7 DOJ lawyers wouldn't have quit, and Bove wouldn't have had to lock the entire Public Integrity Section in a room, threatening to fire them all, so that one would step forward to sign this motion.

And then the motion filed is based entirely on Bove's representations and beliefs.

I am in the real world - I used to work for DOJ - I know some of these people. What's going on in there right now is a disaster, and will only get worse.

Our country is based on the RULE OF LAW, not the rule of Trump.[/quote]

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