Earlier this 12 months, Maureen Comey was abruptly—and, let’s face it, wrongly—terminated from her job as a federal prosecutor for the acute misdeed of being former FBI Director James Comey’s daughter. It additionally in all probability didn’t assist that she labored on the prosecutions of each accused intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his convicted confederate Ghislaine Maxwell.
Comey sued the Trump administration in September, however the Division of Justice has been so loath to take care of it that initially, they simply wouldn’t—as in they actually wouldn’t even reply to the lawsuit or have an legal professional enter an look.
That’s as a result of nobody in her former workplace in Manhattan would conform to deal with the case, nor would the Brooklyn workplace. The Federal Department Program of the DOJ, which generally handles large circumstances like this, additionally mentioned it wouldn’t take it.
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The one workplace that agreed to the case was the Northern District of New York, the place John Sarcone is the performing U.S. legal professional. You may know Sarcone’s title from his antics, like itemizing a boarded-up constructing as his residence within the district. Or maybe when he claimed he was “chased with a knife and threatened” by an undocumented immigrant, Saul Morales-Garcia.
That declare kind of fell aside when video confirmed that Garcia by no means bought inside 20 toes of Sarcone. Moreover, that doesn’t actually clarify why Sarcone lied and mentioned he was residing in a boarded-up constructing.
Sarcone can also be one other of President Donald Trump’s Pretend Appointee Specials, a selection so poisonous that he would by no means get via the Senate affirmation course of, and the judges in his district refused to nominate him as nicely.
So, the administration is attempting to string collectively momentary appointments, with the DOJ first naming him a particular legal professional, then designating him as the primary assistant legal professional, at which level he magically ascended to being the performing U.S. legal professional.
If this sounds acquainted, it’s as a result of the administration has tried this with a number of horrible Trump picks: Alina Habba in New Jersey, Sigal Chattah in Nevada, Invoice Essayli within the Central District of California, and, in fact, Lindsey Halligan within the Northern District of Virginia. Courts have informed all of these people that they don’t seem to be legally of their jobs.
Sarcone’s flip for that’s coming, and it’s kind of scrumptious. The individual difficult Sarcone’s appointment is none apart from New York Legal professional Common Letitia James. Sarcone has demanded that James flip over all materials associated to circumstances towards Trump and the Nationwide Rifle Affiliation, which, nope.
However Sarcone’s actual worth to the administration is that he’s simply as prepared as Halligan to do Trump’s soiled work.
Which brings us again to Maureen Comey. Sarcone’s argument is that Comey has to undergo the executive course of for federal workers and convey a declare earlier than the Benefit Methods Safety Board. Comey’s pushback is that this was no extraordinary firing, and the courts must type out whether or not Trump’s Article II authority permits him to achieve down and fireplace civil service line attorneys.
Moreover, telling Comey she has to undergo the MSPB is absurd. Trump hobbled that board for months by illegally eradicating member Cathy Harris and destroying a quorum, so the board couldn’t hear any circumstances till October, when Trump lastly stuffed some GOP goon onto the unbiased federal company.
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As a result of the administration illegally fired so many federal workers and shut the board down for months, it now has 11,166 appeals to deal with—greater than double the traditional workload.
The administration is aware of full nicely Comey must wait literal years for that course of. It additionally is aware of full nicely that firing Comey by saying that the president has Article II authority to take action is unlikely to carry up in court docket. Effectively, at the very least in all courts however the Supreme Court docket, which can but once more resolve to do Trump’s bidding on that one.
Good luck, John Sarcone. You’ve bought the identical vindictive spirit as Lindsey Halligan, however you’re dealing with a Comey. That didn’t work out so nicely for Halligan, now did it?
