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fromSlate Magazine
2 days ago

Trump's Prosecutor Picks Are Backfiring, Badly

Courts are disqualifying many of Trump's interim U.S. attorney appointments, undermining efforts to install loyalists and derailing politically motivated prosecutions.
fromemptywheel
1 month ago

Lindsey Halligan's Grand Jury Violation, with Love to Aileen Cannon - emptywheel

Just three days after Congress enacted the 1986 law, the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) within the DOJ issued a memorandum, authored by then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General Samuel Alito, interpreting the provision in precisely the same manner as Mr. Comey here. See Definition of Vacancy for the Purpose of Interim Appointment of United States Attorneys pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 546, as amended, Office of Legal Counsel (Nov. 13, 1986), https://perma.cc/SD5Q7CPH.
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