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 an enormous knowledge demand on all 93 places of work Monday—with a deadline of Wednesday.
What does the DOJ need? Not a lot, actually. Only for each U.S. lawyer to offer complete knowledge on how a lot they’ve warped their places of work into racist revenge machines.
Sure, the highest federal prosecutor in every district in all probability didn’t have a lot to do that week and might positively spend their time answering what’s mainly a reproduction of Elon Musk’s “5 issues” e mail.
It’s not like U.S. attorneys are overseeing places of work dealing with tons of—if not hundreds—of prison instances 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. lawyer places of work are answerable for amassing all prison money owed.
Additionally, please simply skip over the half the place these places of work are so jammed up that, in September 2024, there have been greater than 76,000 pending prison issues and 87,000 civil issues throughout all 93 places of work.
U.S. attorneys positively have numerous 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 traditional hatreds fairly 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 government order, issued after Charlie Kirk’s homicide, makes clear that solely left-wing political violence is to be investigated.
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 offer a ebook report about any instances with a “nexus to a drug cartel.” Nicely, not all nexuses to drug cartels, in fact.
The DOJ solely needs 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, despite the fact that U.S. residents are by far the most important group of individuals smuggling medication into the nation.
This demand is particularly ridiculous in mild of the truth that, because the administration has reassigned hundreds of federal personnel to its immigration efforts, narcotics investigations have plummeted.
U.S. attorneys are additionally obliged to indicate how laborious they’re combating sanctuary cities that “stay in defiance” of Trump’s government order. Accountable U.S. attorneys would possible decline going after sanctuary cities, on condition that they’re truly 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. lawyer—are the individuals who select to care for kids who don’t have any different adults to look after them. Such monsters.
In the meantime, once more, because of redirecting hundreds of employees to immigration enforcement, federal brokers are spending far much less time investigating intercourse trafficking and abuse in opposition to youngsters. Priorities!
However you already know who ought to not be investigated as of late, per the DOJ? A lot so that every U.S. lawyer should show they’re most positively not investigating them? The cryptocurrency trade.
At the very least that one is sensible. If U.S. attorneys focused crypto scammers, they’d be going after Trump’s pardon buddies and crypto bros. We are able to’t have that.
This can be a full-scale assault on the independence of U.S. lawyer places of work, 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 truly certified, however you possibly can wager that the foursome of interim appointees who the courts have dominated to be illegally of their jobs can be completely positive with it.
In any case, they perceive the project—to serve Trump it doesn’t matter what.
