Wouldn't it be great if #US District #Judges:
1. Found #DOJ attorneys in #ContemptOfCourt
2. Referred the DOJ attorneys for #disciplinary action
3. Struck the DOJ attorneys from the Court Rolls where they would no longer be authorized to practice law in their court
#Trump and his minions have shown utter contempt for US #Courts and the #RuleOfLaw at every turn.
It's time for the Courts to fight back! #USpol
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In a brazen display of defiance, #Trump’s #DOJ filed papers less than two hours before the 5PM hearing, telling Judge James E. #Boasberg that there was no reason for anyone to come to court because the administration was not going to provide any further information about the #deportation flights.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436/gov.uscourts.dcd.278436.24.0_2.pdf
#law #Constitution #14thAmendment #5thAmendment #DueProcess #immigration #Venezuela #CivilRights #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower
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A federal judge canceled a Mon morning hearing for a #doctor who was deported to #Lebanon after demanding to know whether #CBP had "wilfully" disobeyed his order to keep her in the country amid a challenge to her #deportation.
#DOJ said Dr #RashaAlawieh, "had already departed the United States" by the time CBP officers at Boston's Logan Airport received notice of Judge Leo Sorokin's instructions, the judge said in a brief order Mon.
#immigration #law #xenophobia
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rasha-alawieh-brown-university-doctor-deportation-lebanon/
How is the violent acts half around the world within the jurisdiction of the US #DepartmentofJustice? Are they also going to charge #IDF soldiers taking headshots of #Palestinians kids too? How about the crimes of #Russian military in #Ukraine? #Ecuador, #Haiti, and #SouthAfrica have high murder rates, are we going to start policing those countries? Why not keep the US #DOJ inside the US?
#USNews #USpolitics #IsraelGazaWar #worldnews
https://apnews.com/article/hamas-israel-justice-department-task-force-investigation-89217c0011b0cf398527ae4e9c70bfb7?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
#DOJ drops lawsuit against #ProudBoys, #OathKeepers over violent #Jan6 #insurrection
The DC AG’s office has dropped a lawsuit against the Proud Boys & Oath Keepers over the J6 attack on the US Capitol, saying in a court filing that the city was unlikely to recover enough money to justify continuing legal action against the far-right groups & others it had sought to hold responsible for the riot. [money?! It’s not about money 🤬! It’s about #law & #order & #democracy!]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/03/17/dc-drops-lawsuit-proud-boys-oath-keepers/
Interview: Trump’s Attacks on Critics & Press Are Part of the authoritarian playbook
"Trump spoke at the DoJ in an unprecedented speech in which he threatened to take revenge on his political enemies, from the press to the FBI itself"
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/17/jamie_raskin_trump_constitutional_crisis
The deletions began shortly after #Trump took office. #CDC web pages on #vaccines, #HIV prevention, & #ReproductiveHealth went missing. Findings on #BirdFlu transmission vanished minutes after they appeared. The #Census Bureau’s public repository went offline, then returned w/o certain directories of geographic info. The #DOJ expunged the #Jan6th #insurrection from its site, & whitehouse.gov took down an explainer page about the #Constitution.
#DigitalBookBurning
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-data-hoarders-resisting-trumps-purge
U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Mexico Weekly Immigration and Border Crimes Report https://share.newsbreak.com/c3qhjqyg?s=i0 #DoJ #immigration #ImmigrationEnforcement #NewMexico #AlamogordoTownNews
#DOJ bids for control over Jack Smith's final report, telling Judge Aileen Cannon not to release Vol 1 or Vol 2 of Jack Smith's final report, but esp "not under any circumstances" should she release Vol 2.
Sounds like something we really need to see.
Judge forced to pause trial b/c Trump's #DOJ lawyers so unprepared, had not even read any of the 3 reports #DefSec #Hegseth cited in his ban on #transgender military service that they were defending.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192657/judge-military-trans-ban-trial-lawyers-incompetence
Incompetence & professional sloppiness have become hallmarks of Trump's administration.
Top #NYC #FBI Agent Forced Out After Clash With #DOJ
James E. Dennehy had told agents to “dig in” in the face of the #Trump admin’s culling of ofcls who investigated the #Jan6 attack.
#NationalSecurity #law #justice #KashPatel #PamBondi #EmilBove
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/nyregion/nyc-fbi-agent-james-dennehy-forced-out.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=045D5324-A07F-48B5-BB51-26A77D3AA8BB
#Trump’s #DOJ is to drop suit over alleged #cancer-causing #pollution
#Justice is poised to drop a landmark lawsuit alleging that cancer-causing pollution from a #Louisiana #petrochemical plant poses an imminent danger to nearby communities….
The lawsuit alleges that the Denka Performance Elastomer plant in #LaPlace, LA, threatens local residents by releasing unsafe levels of the #toxic #chemical #chloroprene.
#law #PublicHealth #health #environment #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/03/03/justice-department-denka-plant-pollution/
Trump's top prosecutor in DC demotes several supervisors who handled "politically sensitive" cases, including #Jan6, Peter Navarro & Steve Bannon .
The Trump Revenge Tour continues with his ongoing weaponization of #DoJ.
https://apnews.com/article/ed-martin-us-attorney-demotions-jan-6-trump-e9333829e74311f159b7cd90be9c1b10
Dr. David Smith Replaces Army Lt. Gen. Telita Crosland as Director of U.S. Defense Health Agency https://share.newsbreak.com/btakbld6?s=i0 #DOJ #federalconviction #newmexicocrime #AlamogordoTownNews
Borrowed from a community note on Dead🐦:
The #DOJ is not the personal law firm of the President. "The Attorney General represents the United States in legal matters generally and gives advice and opinions to the President and to the heads of the executive departments of the Government when so requested." https://www.justice.gov/ag#:~:text=The%20Attorney%20General%20represents%20the,person%20before%20the%20Supreme%20Court.
#Trump is sowing #chaos at a blistering pace.
- Thomas B. Edsall
He “is dismantling #watchdog offices & other parts of the #PublicIntegrity apparatus for 2 reasons, one backward-looking & one forward-looking,” Richard Primus, a #law prof at the University of Michigan, wrote by email:
#felon47 #DOJ #JAG #accountability #criminal #corruption #MafiaState #kleptocracy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/opinion/trump-agenda-firings-chaos.html?unlocked_article_code=1.z04.UfIN.jWziIQ-9S4EQ&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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A U.S. federal judge has blocked the Justice Department from transferring 12 transgender female inmates. Read more from @USAToday
https://flip.it/K79DgO
#LGBTQIA #Transgender #Trans #Trump #DOJ #Politics
Timothy Heaphy on Deadline Whitehouse:
If the #DoJ & #FBI focus their attn on the pursuit of Trump's retributive* agenda, that means all the other cases that need to be pursued won't be, & that'd be dangerous for #PublicSafety.
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*As in "I am your retribution"
Yep.
The Department of Justice has eliminated its national database that tracked misconduct incidents among federal law enforcement officers.
We’re a lawless society now, but there’re still “laws” the #TrumpMusk regime can enforce against the us. That’s why they want a compliant law enforcement & military.
Pam Bondi Covers Up Foreign Influence Peddling and Lying to the FBI
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/22/pam-bondi-covers-up-foreign-influence-peddling-and-lying-to-the-fbi/
#DOJ deletes database tracking federal #police #misconduct
The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by #Trump, the #Justice Dept confirmed, deleting a resource that experts said improved #PublicSafety by helping to prevent bad officers from jumping to new agencies & starting over with clean records.
#law #PoliceViolence #PoliceBrutality #ExcessiveForce #AbuseOfPower #ACAB #HumanRights #CivilRights #USpol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/20/trump-justice-nlead-database-deleted/
A federal appeals court Wednesday evening declined the #Trump admin’s request to partially revive the president’s #ExecutiveOrder restricting #BirthrightCitizenship.
The #DOJ asked the #9thCircuit Court of Appeals to immediately limit a district judge’s ruling, one of multiple indefinitely blocking Trump’s order nationwide, to only the individual plaintiffs who sued in an underlying case.
#law #14thAmendment #immigration #WhiteSupremacy
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5154605-appeals-court-trump-birthright-citizenship-order/
#Trump #Justice Dept to be questioned in court on #NYC Mayor #EricAdams case
Top #DOJ ofcls are expected to defend their decision to drop #corruption charges against Adams…[Wednesday afternoon].
The afternoon hearing before US District Judge Dale E. Ho comes days after the govt’s push to withdraw its case sparked open conflict within the DOJ, leading to #resignations in protest from 8 veteran dept lawyers, including Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor.
#law #QuidProQuo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/19/eric-adams-court-hearing-corruption-justice-department/
"The Trump administration rescinded approval of New York City’s congestion pricing plan, which went into effect in January."
Legal experts, isn't this a state issue? How can Trump "rule" on this?
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/new-york-congestion-pricing-approval-trump-13f50678?mod=e2tw
VIDEO: United States Attorney’s Office announces termination of Kenneth L. Parker as U.S. Attorney, fired as US Attorney for Southern District of Ohio
Mr. Parker was sworn in on November 23, 2021, as the 45th United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. Former President Joseph Biden nominated Parker on September 28, 2021, and the United States Senate unanimously approved his confirmation on November 19, 2021.
https://www.wlwt.com/article/kenneth-parker-termination-us-attorney-southern-ohio/63833276
DOJ statement
Archive page should it disappear, https://archive.ph/y63oi