Berman Resigns, Ending His Turbulent Standoff With Barr

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U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman announced his resignation on Saturday evening “effective immediately,” putting an end to his 24-hour stalemate with Attorney General Bill Barr.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1316109
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Yanno, at least the three stooges were funny.

These guys are just…sad.

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Yet another well qualified candidate for Attorney General in the Biden Administration.

Nice to have so many options for the upcoming prosecutions.

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I hope and assume he has a plan. High-end lawyers in my experience aren’t really prone to just giving up for fear of conflict.

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Biden needs to commit to prosecuting ALL the crooks of the previous administration, and not wimp-out like Obama did.

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Hopefully he won’t be quite so discreet about what happened to cause his resignation once he is officially out on the street.

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I smell the dank odor of obstruction of justice on Barr’s part here.

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I’d really like to know how they got to him.

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Berman? You do know he contributed to Trump 2016, etc., and was hand selected by Trump to work in the administration, right?

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“These guys are just…sad” …thinking evil might be the word you are looking for there.

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So, let’s see how long Audrey Strauss lasts.

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Oh for fuck’s sake. I don’t know what to say anymore. I hope he kept the combination to the safe a secret when he left.

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Well, trump loves chaos. He said so and so did his press secretary just yesterday

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All this time, I thought that "choosing public spectacle over public service” was the motto of the Trump administration.
Sorta off topic, but I’m curious: Twitter is, of course, all atwitter with speculation about what case was the impetus for this. My favorite was that they had word from a SCOTUS clerk that they would lose the finances case either 5-4 or 6-3. If so, what are the chances that Roberts releases that decision on Tuesday?

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I think more information will come out Wednesday if Berman chooses to testify to Nadler,

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Schiff, Harris, or Porter.

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They can’t really order him not to once he’s out, can they?

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What the effing F? He said he had no intention of resigning.

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That didn’t end well, did it?

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Berman would have the same speech freedom the rest of us do unless there’s something classified.

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