Trump is STUNNED as 1200 DOJ Lawyers GET REVENGE!!!

Thousands of former Department of. Justice officials who were pretty high. up the ranks as DOJ officials, they're. striking back against the Trump regime. and the acting Attorney General Todd. Blanche. Todd Blanche is set to have his. confirmation hearing in the United. States Senate and about 1,200, I think. it's going to be more than that cuz I. think more people are joining this. letter or sending letters of their own, but at least 1,200 former top DOJ.

officials have sent a letter to Chuck. Grassley and Dick Durbin who are the two. heads of the Senate Judiciary Committee. explaining why Todd Blanche deeply. unqualified, betrayed his oath of. office, and why appointing him as the. actual Attorney General, not the acting, would be completely and utterly. catastrophic for the rule of law. And. let me just share with you this powerful. letter that was sent by these 1,200.

former DOJ officials. They say, "Dear. Chairman Grassley and Ranking Member. Durbin, we served the public at the. Department of Justice as career. employees and appointees during both. Republican and Democratic. administrations. Regardless of how we. joined the department, every one of us. took an oath to support and defend the. Constitution, not the occupant of the. White House. That oath now compels us to. speak out against the nomination of Todd. Blanche for Attorney General, someone.

who took the same oath but has utterly. failed to abide by it. In the coming. weeks, many will rightly underscore the. corruption and abuses that have defined. the Justice Department under Todd. Blanche's leadership, the vindictive. prosecutions and investigations of. Trump's foes, the deals designed to. reward lawbreakers with taxpayer. dollars, the erasure of accountability. for January 6th, the mishandling of the. Epstein files, and the denigration of. judges and repeated violations of their. orders, but we want to focus on an area.

that deserves just as much attention. Todd Blanche's degradation of the DOJ's. apolitical career workforce. Of more. than 100,000 employees at the Justice. Department, 99% are career civil. servants. Anyone who's worked there and. through administrations of both parties. knows they are the department's. backbone. They're the ones who keep us. safe by prosecuting violent crime, investigating drug trafficking, and. countering terrorism and espionage. They.

keep us prosperous by enforcing. antitrust laws and holding financial. fraudsters accountable. They protect our. fundamental freedoms by upholding civil. rights laws, and they keep our elected. officials honest by pursuing public. corruption. Todd Blanche knows this. He. served as a career DOJ prosecutor for. almost a decade, but that hasn't stopped. him from demonizing career employees, undermining their work, and driving them. out of the department. Under Blanche's.

leadership, approximately 16,000. employees have left. Let me repeat that. 16,000 employees have left, and. departures aren't slowing down. They. include FBI agents and analysts in field. offices across the country and more than. a quarter of the department's attorneys. Blanche has fired or overseen firings of. hundreds of these employees, usually. without notice, and for improper and. lawful reasons. Some were terminated for. having worked on cases the president.

didn't like, for being relatives of. Trump's foes, for adjudicating. immigration cases in accordance with due. process, for declining to initiate. vindictive prosecutions, or for refusing. to lie in court. These terminations. violate the very civil service statutes. designed to prevent corruption and. political purges. Many more career. employees have left on their own under. Blanche's leadership. First as Deputy. Attorney General, the Department's Chief. Operating Officer, and more recently as.

the DOJ's top officials. For some, their. offices were left rudderless after their. managers were pushed out. Others. resigned rather than follow illegal or. unethical orders, or they left because. they feared those orders would come. Many left because leadership abandoned. or drastically scaled back their work. enforcing civil rights, environmental, or public corruption laws. While offices. that enforce tax laws, ensured access to. justice, prosecuted drug trafficking,

and reduced community violence were. eliminated entirely. Blanche has also. overseen initiatives to pull employees. away from their mission-critical work. A. quarter of FBI staff were reassigned to. civil immigration enforcement in the. first year. FBI, DEA, ATF agents have. been diverted from their investigation. into terrorism, drug trafficking, and. organized crime so they could patrol the. streets of Washington D.C. Assistant.

United States Attorneys from across the. country were sent to Minneapolis and. other cities to respond to protest, and. many have had to adjust their dockets to. defend an avalanche of. immigration-related. habeas cases. Not surprisingly, the. Department has also struggled like never. before to recruit talent. Jobs that once. attracted hundreds of applicants hoping. to carry the badge or represent the. United States in court have gone. unfilled. DOJ is resorting to desperate. measures including including lowering.

hiring requirements for prosecution and. FBI agents, and offering signing bonuses. and financial incentives for employees. to stay. The consequences of Blanche's. attacks on DOJ's apolitical workforce. radiate beyond the halls of main justice. affecting the entire country. They've. meant that much of the department's. vital work isn't being done. or isn't being done as well, leaving. communities less safe, Americans' rights. less protected, and our national.

security more vulnerable. The culture of. fear Blanche has installed within the. DOJ's workforce must end. Respect for. career professionals must return. Would-be job applicants need to believe. the Justice Department lives up to the. virtue in its name. And instead of. exhibiting fealty to the president, the. Attorney General must heed John Adams'. admonition that our republic remains a. government of laws, not men. For the. sake of the institution we were once. proudly serving, we urge you to reject.

Todd Blanche's nomination. Let me bring. in Harry Litman from the Talking Fed's. YouTube channel, Substack, and podcast. Now, Harry runs that channel, but he was. also a former top federal prosecutor, the former United States Attorney for. the Western District of Pennsylvania, former top DOJ official in Main Justice. in Washington, D.C. Now, Harry, that letter was so powerful, I didn't. want to paraphrase or pick apart cuz you. need to see our audience needs to see.

what people who work for Democrats and. Republicans at this scale, 1,200 of. them, put their name, and more are. joining, 16,000 have been fired or quit. from the DOJ. This is devastating, Harry, and I want to get your take on it. cuz this is an unprecedented letter, but. these are unprecedented times. >> I think it is an unprecedented letter, Ben, especially in its scope and. enormity. It was good and right of you. to read the whole letter. I don't think.

even the most ardent of the Midas Mighty. or Fed Heads would have the time for you. to read the entire letter because it's. the two pages you read followed by 57. pages of signatures. And as you scan. them, your eye falls on all kinds of. prominent folks, former lawyers for. Trump, people you know about in high. positions, but also mainly the the.

career staff, which is this is a sort of. second point. It really is a way of kind. of summarizing the total sea change that. Weisselberg instituted, but in fact. engineered. I was at the final farewell. ceremony for Merrick Garland. All you. heard about was. career employees, career employees, the. heart and soul of this institution. coming to the.

worked in order to do the right thing, giving up the the money, all about. justice without fear or favor. And for. people who have been there in these. 1,200 or just a fraction, it's just. true. So, this has been the kind of the. the numbers don't really even capture. the complete denigration. and evisceration of everything that is. so special about the Department of.

Justice. The other thing I want to. highlight is their last point about the. culture of fear. The people who remain, and 16,000. out of 100,000 is already huge, but it's. bigger than that because we know they. disproportionately. selected out the real counselors, the. people who really had been there the. longest time and people come to. Those. guys have either been forced out or put. into ridiculous.

marginalized, you know, positions. in a and and hardly ever working. You know, but not at all doing the. important work of the department, so. much of which has just been abandoned. like. civil rights. So, I that you know, that really speaks. volumes but what the the point that. comes out to me Ben is this really. bespeaks an overall strategic. kind of organization of the opposition.

to Blance. In paragraph three I think it. is of this letter they set out in a. paragraph the the things that really are. going to be the focus come next. Wednesday the 15th and you know, the the. absolutely indefensible worst possible. practice of reprisal prosecutions. because the president doesn't like. someone even though it's got nothing to. do with the facts and the law. Also,

Blance they they serve notice is coming. back. Also, the slush fund, other. things. But then their ticket is exactly. what's happened at the Department of. Justice. And I think that's the an. aspect of Blance's tenure that won't be. front and center on the cable news, won't even be front and center for some. of the senators. But for any senator, I. can think of two or three who actually. has been at DOJ, something like this and.

they probably include names of people. who were at DOJ but also served on their. staff, they can really see, oh man, this. aspect is just. not just revolting but completely and I. mean completely incompatible with any. possible law enforcement purpose, anything other than just the complete. capture in raw political terms for the. worst. and most antithetical.

um, conduct that in really DOJ history. So, the way these things work, and I. think they'll work this way. Blanche. comes the first day, the second day. there will be witnesses, and I think. many of the witnesses will be about some. of these other things. Maybe Epstein. victims will be, uh, there. Maybe maybe. people, for instance, who were forced. out, the, uh, the prosecutors on the. Mayor Ford in New York, uh, case. But.

then there will be one or two uh, people. saying, "And let me make this extra. point and drive it home." And they're. really about focusing on A, the American. people, but also one or two or three. possible, um, uh, s- um, sort of pivotal votes. And I'm talking about Tom Tillis first. and John Cornyn second. And these. arguments will be chosen carefully to. try to appeal to them. So, to me, as a.

former, um, a USA and US attorney, this is huge in. what every time I see it, I want to. just throw up and throttle everyone. who's done it, because I know the DOJ, um, and and that's going to be part, but. I think it's going to on the list of. Todd Blanche's sins, uh, it'll be, you. know, third or fourth, and the number. one thing will be, I think, "Senators, if you, uh, um, confirm him, you are ratifying the.

notion that you can just bring cases. against the president's enemies. Nothing. could be worse. You're going to have to. own it." That'll be the lead, but this. theme, among others, will be, you know, there's three, four, five themes, and. the former employees will carry this one. very strongly. >> Yeah, you know, it is, uh, horrifying. that you would have. senators. see what's taken place, cover up of.

child sex trafficking rings, uh completely just uh. every conflict of interest law just. throwing it aside. Gutting the DOJ's critical functions. I. mean, just set aside, you know, even. even if you were, I guess, rooting for. the bad behavior because it's like, well, that's that's illegal, but they're. helping us out. We're getting the libs. >> Well, well, we're owning the bag, you. know, it's like mhm. >> Okay, that's. all this stuff has consequences. And it.

has consequences on the rule of law. You've gutted counterterrorism, you've. gutted ethics, you've gutted antitrust, you've gutted environmental, you've. gutted civil rights, you've gutted these. departments, and they exist to actually. keep you and your family safe. Like like. it it comes back it boomerangs back to. you, idiots. Like. >> Such an important point, and you and I. have made it repeatedly. The real. victims here are the public and public. uh safety, not simply of the loss of.

personnel, but that's significant. Not. simply of the loss of expertise, but. that's significant. Not simply of the. substitution of complete inexperience, but that's significant, but also the. loss throughout the country of the. presumption of regularity that was a. tailwind for the DOJ every time they. walked into court. It's no longer there, and who pays for that ultimately? The. public in reduced public safety. It's.

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