Originally published at: Solicitor General’s Office Reportedly Sees Mass Exodus As Wall Between White House, DOJ Disintegrates - TPM – Talking Points Memo
At least eight top lawyers in the Justice Department’s solicitor general’s office are departing or have already announced their impending exit from the elite team, which is responsible for arguing on behalf of the Trump administration before the Supreme Court. The turnover is high for the office in general, according to the Washington Post and…
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Last one out of the Solicitor General’s Office please turn off the lights.
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"Where law ends, tyranny begins.” – William Pitt
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Bet one of those (unspoken) reasons is the plain desire to get the hell out of Dodge in case they are next in line for the (figurative at the moment) guillotine.
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I think one of the only crimes that has been committed in front of the American people that is more severe than Donald Trump’s insider trading today was when Donald Trump tried to blackmail Ukraine to find dirt on Joe Biden.
I’m not asking for impeachment. I’m asking for the Republicans to ask for impeachment.
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The positive side of the SG Office departures is that there will be few competent lawyers left to defend the maladministration’s policies. The negative side is that there will similarly be few competent lawyers left in DOJ as a whole to do the work of prosecuting the evil-doers.
How long before DOJ consists of Blondie Bondi and Ed Martin?
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“In a Truth Social post that sent the U.S. stock market soaring…”
A “fool’s rally”. Drunk, senile grandpa is still at the wheel. We’ll be lucky if the country merely ends up in the ditch, and not in a head on collision.
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I’d kind of prefer 25th Amendmenting him into a nice Alzheimer’s home.
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Can Paul, Weiss and Skadden and any of the other pusillanimous law firms who cave to Trump represent the government before the Supreme Court pro bono? You know that’s what Trump wants, as the SG’s Office and the DOJ, generally, are shedding competent lawyers.
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But SCOTUS seems ok working with the malevolent lot.
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At some point “because Trump’s ego demands it” may become a losing argument. Fingers crossed.
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Pam Bondi’s demand for “zealous advocacy” of President Donald Trump’s agenda
STEP #1 - Stop what you’re doing.
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Regarding the item about the whiplash due to the delay in implementing most of the tariffs: It’s good to see Schiff calling for an investigation about whether this whole tariffs on/tariffs off was designed to lower stock prices and then boost stock prices and give insiders a chance to buy at the low and then sell at the high.
As he says, you can’t assume that they wouldn’t do it if they could, and they definitely can. Which used to be illegal.
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touch of good news
Social Security abandons DOGE-led phone service cuts amid chaos, backlash
Johnson pulls vote on Trump budget blueprint in face of conservative opposition
Mark Cuban warns of a ‘Red Rural Recession’ after key protections canceled
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How competent do you need to be when the conservative judges will agree with Trump position even if is unintelligible.
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A cynic might ask why one needs a Solicitor General’s office when one owns the Court. Any old brief will do when you have worked the refs in advance.
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We’ve seen the disintegration of this typical firewall between the DOJ and the White House’s political agenda play out in countless ways since Trump first came back to power,
Merrick Garland must be so proud.
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