Presumably as a result of the Justice Division is now run by individuals who don’t even have any concept what attorneys do, it dropped a large knowledge demand on all 93 workplaces Monday—with a deadline of Wednesday.
What does the DOJ need? Not a lot, actually. Only for each U.S. legal professional to supply complete knowledge on how a lot they’ve warped their workplaces into racist revenge machines.
Legal professional Common Pam Bondi
It’s not like U.S. attorneys are overseeing workplaces dealing with tons of—if not hundreds—of felony circumstances annually. By no means thoughts that every federal district can also be juggling tons of or hundreds of civil issues. And pay no consideration to the truth that U.S. legal professional workplaces are liable for gathering all felony money owed.
Additionally, please simply skip over the half the place these workplaces are so jammed up that, in September 2024, there have been greater than 76,000 pending felony issues and 87,000 civil issues throughout all 93 workplaces.
U.S. attorneys undoubtedly have a number of free time to screw round with proving to the DOJ how a lot they love President Donald Trump—as a result of that’s actually what this request is.
It’s a requirement that every workplace show compliance with Trump’s regulation enforcement priorities, that are simply based mostly on Trump’s normal hatreds slightly than any actual concern about combating crime.
So what, precisely, are the U.S. attorneys supposed to indicate and inform—what number of investigations into “organized political violence” have been opened? Certain, however not all organized political violence.
Trump’s Sept. 25 govt order, issued after Charlie Kirk’s homicide, makes clear that solely left-wing political violence is to be investigated.
FBI brokers seek for the killer who assassinated Minnesota Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman—what some may name “organized political violence.”
Don’t overlook that Trump declared “antifa”—which isn’t an precise group—to be a home terrorist group—which isn’t an precise factor in U.S. regulation.
So basically, U.S. attorneys are being requested to show what number of leftist organizations they’ve investigated for the crime of being leftist organizations.
The U.S. attorneys additionally want to provide a e book report about any circumstances with a “nexus to a drug cartel.” Effectively, not all nexuses to drug cartels, after all.
The DOJ solely desires to know what number of indictments have been introduced in opposition to nationals of Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, and the Dominican Republic. No want to listen to about any U.S. residents with a nexus to drug cartels, though U.S. residents are by far the most important group of individuals smuggling medicine into the nation.
This demand is particularly ridiculous in mild of the truth that, for the reason that administration has reassigned hundreds of federal personnel to its immigration efforts, narcotics investigations have plummeted.
U.S. attorneys are additionally obliged to indicate how arduous they’re combating sanctuary cities that “remain in defiance” of Trump’s govt order. Accountable U.S. attorneys would seemingly decline going after sanctuary cities, on condition that they’re really authorized.
And so they’re additionally required to show the variety of grownup sponsors of unaccompanied minors they’ve investigated and prosecuted.
Let’s unpack this for a minute: The largest criminals the administration can consider—so horrendous that it warrants particular monitoring by each U.S. legal professional—are the individuals who select to care for kids who haven’t any different adults to take care of them. Such monsters.
A cartoon by Mike Luckovich.
In the meantime, once more, due to redirecting hundreds of workers to immigration enforcement, federal brokers are spending far much less time investigating intercourse trafficking and abuse in opposition to youngsters. Priorities!
However you realize who shouldn’t be investigated as of late, per the DOJ? A lot so that every U.S. legal professional should show they’re most undoubtedly not investigating them? The cryptocurrency trade.
At the very least that one is smart. If U.S. attorneys focused crypto scammers, they’d be going after Trump’s pardon friends and crypto bros. We will’t have that.
It is a full-scale assault on the independence of U.S. legal professional workplaces, turning them into an arm of Trump’s corrupt and compromised DOJ and pulling them away from combating precise crime.
This isn’t going to sit down proper with U.S. attorneys who’re really certified, however you possibly can wager that the foursome of interim appointees who the courts have dominated to be illegally of their jobs will likely be completely nice with it.
In any case, they perceive the project—to serve Trump it doesn’t matter what.
