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#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

#Trump #DoJ #USPol #Fascism .

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.

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/under-no-circumstances-should-the-court-order-the-release-doj-tells-judge-aileen-cannon-she-should-cede-control-over-jack-smiths-final-mar-a-lago-report-to-the-government/

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.

#GiftArticle

#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

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.

#USPol #Lawlessness #Betrayal #DOJ #Resist

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justice-department-shuts-down-federal-law-enforcement-misconduct-tracker/

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/

#PamBondi #FBI #DOJ #GOPTraitors #ArrestPamBondi #USPol

#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?

#USPol #NY #Justice #DOJ #NYC

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.

#Ohio #DOJ #USPol #Cincinnati

https://www.wlwt.com/article/kenneth-parker-termination-us-attorney-southern-ohio/63833276

DOJ statement

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdoh/pr/united-states-attorneys-office-announces-departure-kenneth-l-parker-us-attorney

Archive page should it disappear, https://archive.ph/y63oi

#TheGremlinZoo #USPol #DOJ

From Reuters.com: Trump says he has instructed DOJ to terminate all remaining Biden-era US attorneys

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-has-instructed-doj-terminate-all-remaining-biden-era-us-attorneys-2025-02-18/

Senior US prosecutor resigns, citing demand to probe #Biden-era contract.

#MSNBC:
She'd determined there was not enough evidence for a bank to justifiy freezing the company's assets.

Ie, she was asked to fabricate a crime where there was none.

Clearly meant to discredit/smear Biden/#Dems, but also benefiting Musk or other DJT ally?

Selective prosecution = persecution.

Trump weaponizing #DoJ despite #USAG Bondi's empty promises at her #Senate confirmation hearing.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/senior-us-prosecutor-resigns-citing-demands-open-probe-into-biden-era-contract-2025-02-18/

I guess judges aren't needed when you have concentration camps...

“The Trump administration has fired a slew of immigration judges as part of the sweeping moves to cut thousands of government workers,” Politico reports.

“The Friday terminations affected five assistant chief immigration judges, as well as the entire December class of new judges who have yet to be sworn in.”

#Immigration #MassDeportation #DHS #DOJ #StopTrumpNow #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansOwnThis #GOPKakistocracy #USPol

Justice Department Fires 20 Immigration Judges From Backlogged Courts

https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-02-15/justice-department-fires-20-immigration-judges-from-backlogged-courts-amid-major-government-cuts

A union official says the Trump administration has fired 20 immigration judges without explanation amid sweeping moves to shrink the size of the federal government.

#TRUMP #IMMIGRATION #DOJ #COURTS #PRESS

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