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  1. Each of #EdMartin’s actions violates #DOJ rules and norms: Prosecutors are barred from making investigative decisions based on #politics; they are asked not to comment on specific cases; and they are supposed to avoid turning their investigations into public spectacles.

    #Trump #law #RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #SeparationOfPowers #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  2. Each of #EdMartin’s actions violates #DOJ rules and norms: Prosecutors are barred from making investigative decisions based on #politics; they are asked not to comment on specific cases; and they are supposed to avoid turning their investigations into public spectacles.

    #Trump #law #RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #SeparationOfPowers #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  3. Each of #EdMartin’s actions violates #DOJ rules and norms: Prosecutors are barred from making investigative decisions based on #politics; they are asked not to comment on specific cases; and they are supposed to avoid turning their investigations into public spectacles.

    #Trump #law #RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #SeparationOfPowers #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  4. Each of #EdMartin’s actions violates #DOJ rules and norms: Prosecutors are barred from making investigative decisions based on #politics; they are asked not to comment on specific cases; and they are supposed to avoid turning their investigations into public spectacles.

    #Trump #law #RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #SeparationOfPowers #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  5. While he told an inquiring neighbor that he was “just looking at houses, interesting houses,” #EdMartin later appeared on FauxNews saying that, as a prosecutor, he wanted to see the property with his own eyes. It was the latest in a string of media appearances he made in relation to his investigation of #NYAG #LeticiaJames, one of #Trump’s most prominent adversaries.

    #law #RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  6. While he told an inquiring neighbor that he was “just looking at houses, interesting houses,” #EdMartin later appeared on FauxNews saying that, as a prosecutor, he wanted to see the property with his own eyes. It was the latest in a string of media appearances he made in relation to his investigation of #NYAG #LeticiaJames, one of #Trump’s most prominent adversaries.

    #law #RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  7. While he told an inquiring neighbor that he was “just looking at houses, interesting houses,” #EdMartin later appeared on FauxNews saying that, as a prosecutor, he wanted to see the property with his own eyes. It was the latest in a string of media appearances he made in relation to his investigation of #NYAG #LeticiaJames, one of #Trump’s most prominent adversaries.

    #law #RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  8. While he told an inquiring neighbor that he was “just looking at houses, interesting houses,” #EdMartin later appeared on FauxNews saying that, as a prosecutor, he wanted to see the property with his own eyes. It was the latest in a string of media appearances he made in relation to his investigation of #NYAG #LeticiaJames, one of #Trump’s most prominent adversaries.

    #law #RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  9. #EdMartin did not waste any time. Days after Martin, a #Trump-aligned activist, was tapped by the #DOJ to investigate #NYAG #LetitiaJames, he wrote a letter to her lawyer saying he would take it as an act of “good faith” if she were to resign.

    Martin followed up this breach of prosecutorial protocol by showing up outside Ms. James’s Brooklyn home, clad in a trench coat & posing for pictures for The New York Post.

    #law #RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  10. #EdMartin did not waste any time. Days after Martin, a #Trump-aligned activist, was tapped by the #DOJ to investigate #NYAG #LetitiaJames, he wrote a letter to her lawyer saying he would take it as an act of “good faith” if she were to resign.

    Martin followed up this breach of prosecutorial protocol by showing up outside Ms. James’s Brooklyn home, clad in a trench coat & posing for pictures for The New York Post.

    #law #RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  11. #EdMartin did not waste any time. Days after Martin, a #Trump-aligned activist, was tapped by the #DOJ to investigate #NYAG #LetitiaJames, he wrote a letter to her lawyer saying he would take it as an act of “good faith” if she were to resign.

    Martin followed up this breach of prosecutorial protocol by showing up outside Ms. James’s Brooklyn home, clad in a trench coat & posing for pictures for The New York Post.

    #law #RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  12. #EdMartin did not waste any time. Days after Martin, a #Trump-aligned activist, was tapped by the #DOJ to investigate #NYAG #LetitiaJames, he wrote a letter to her lawyer saying he would take it as an act of “good faith” if she were to resign.

    Martin followed up this breach of prosecutorial protocol by showing up outside Ms. James’s Brooklyn home, clad in a trench coat & posing for pictures for The New York Post.

    #law #RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  13. In Pursuing #Trump Rival, *Weaponization Czar* Sidesteps #DOJ Norms

    #EdMartin’s conduct is part of a pattern in which top administration officials try to [ab]use the vast powers of the government to cast the specter of criminality on Trump’s enemies.

    #law #RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #SeparationOfPowers #DOJindependence #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment
    nytimes.com/2025/08/19/us/poli

  14. In Pursuing #Trump Rival, *Weaponization Czar* Sidesteps #DOJ Norms

    #EdMartin’s conduct is part of a pattern in which top administration officials try to [ab]use the vast powers of the government to cast the specter of criminality on Trump’s enemies.

    #law #RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #SeparationOfPowers #DOJindependence #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment
    nytimes.com/2025/08/19/us/poli

  15. In Pursuing #Trump Rival, *Weaponization Czar* Sidesteps #DOJ Norms

    #EdMartin’s conduct is part of a pattern in which top administration officials try to [ab]use the vast powers of the government to cast the specter of criminality on Trump’s enemies.

    #law #RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #SeparationOfPowers #DOJindependence #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment
    nytimes.com/2025/08/19/us/poli

  16. “That guidance, which is not legally binding, is significant in an administration that has vowed to upend the #DOJ & the #FBI, which #Trump & his allies have accused of mistreating him.

    “…#Legal experts say the guidance could erode guardrails that have traditionally given the #Justice Department a degree of #independence from the White House that does not exist for other executive branch agencies.”

    #law #impartiality #authoritarianism #democracy #TrumpCoup #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  17. “That guidance, which is not legally binding, is significant in an administration that has vowed to upend the #DOJ & the #FBI, which #Trump & his allies have accused of mistreating him.

    “…#Legal experts say the guidance could erode guardrails that have traditionally given the #Justice Department a degree of #independence from the White House that does not exist for other executive branch agencies.”

    #law #impartiality #authoritarianism #democracy #TrumpCoup #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  18. “That guidance, which is not legally binding, is significant in an administration that has vowed to upend the #DOJ & the #FBI, which #Trump & his allies have accused of mistreating him.

    “…#Legal experts say the guidance could erode guardrails that have traditionally given the #Justice Department a degree of #independence from the White House that does not exist for other executive branch agencies.”

    #law #impartiality #authoritarianism #democracy #TrumpCoup #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  19. “That guidance, which is not legally binding, is significant in an administration that has vowed to upend the #DOJ & the #FBI, which #Trump & his allies have accused of mistreating him.

    “…#Legal experts say the guidance could erode guardrails that have traditionally given the #Justice Department a degree of #independence from the White House that does not exist for other executive branch agencies.”

    #law #impartiality #authoritarianism #democracy #TrumpCoup #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  20. #Trump White House says it
    can talk to #Justice Dept on #criminal cases

    “...explicitly saying the president & vice president & their top lawyers can discuss ongoing criminal & civil cases with the attorney general & her deputies, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post.”

    #law #impartiality #authoritarianism #democracy #TrumpCoup #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment
    washingtonpost.com/national-se

  21. #Trump White House says it
    can talk to #Justice Dept on #criminal cases

    “...explicitly saying the president & vice president & their top lawyers can discuss ongoing criminal & civil cases with the attorney general & her deputies, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post.”

    #law #impartiality #authoritarianism #democracy #TrumpCoup #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment
    washingtonpost.com/national-se

  22. #Trump White House says it
    can talk to #Justice Dept on #criminal cases

    “...explicitly saying the president & vice president & their top lawyers can discuss ongoing criminal & civil cases with the attorney general & her deputies, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post.”

    #law #impartiality #authoritarianism #democracy #TrumpCoup #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment
    washingtonpost.com/national-se

  23. #Trump White House says it
    can talk to #Justice Dept on #criminal cases

    “...explicitly saying the president & vice president & their top lawyers can discuss ongoing criminal & civil cases with the attorney general & her deputies, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post.”

    #law #impartiality #authoritarianism #democracy #TrumpCoup #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment
    washingtonpost.com/national-se

  24. #MikeJohnson vowed to use House oversight powers while cutting funds in the #government appropriations process & taking other unspecified #legislative measures.
    
“We’re going to do everything we can, everything within our scope of our responsibility in the Congress, to address it appropriately,” Johnson said at his weekly news conference afterward.

    #law #justice #obstruction #Congress #HouseRepublicans #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #CultOfPersonality #Autocracy #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  25. #MikeJohnson vowed to use House oversight powers while cutting funds in the #government appropriations process & taking other unspecified #legislative measures.
    
“We’re going to do everything we can, everything within our scope of our responsibility in the Congress, to address it appropriately,” Johnson said at his weekly news conference afterward.

    #law #justice #obstruction #Congress #HouseRepublicans #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #CultOfPersonality #Autocracy #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  26. #MikeJohnson vowed to use House oversight powers while cutting funds in the #government appropriations process & taking other unspecified #legislative measures.
    
“We’re going to do everything we can, everything within our scope of our responsibility in the Congress, to address it appropriately,” Johnson said at his weekly news conference afterward.

    #law #justice #obstruction #Congress #HouseRepublicans #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #CultOfPersonality #Autocracy #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  27. #MikeJohnson vowed to use House oversight powers while cutting funds in the #government appropriations process & taking other unspecified #legislative measures.
    
“We’re going to do everything we can, everything within our scope of our responsibility in the Congress, to address it appropriately,” Johnson said at his weekly news conference afterward.

    #law #justice #obstruction #Congress #HouseRepublicans #Republicans #MAGA #Trump #CultOfPersonality #Autocracy #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  28. After a NY jury deemed #Trump a #felon last week, his staunchest supporters are focusing on what they allege is a weaponized #justice sys by ramping up #House investigations & *stalling* [ #obstruction ] regular business in the #Democratic-led #Senate.
    
#House Spkr #MikeJohnson broadly outlined a “3-pronged approach” Tues during a weekly conference on how the #Republican majority can #target the #DOJ, #NewYork & other jurisdictions for investigating Trump.

    #law #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  29. After a NY jury deemed #Trump a #felon last week, his staunchest supporters are focusing on what they allege is a weaponized #justice sys by ramping up #House investigations & *stalling* [ #obstruction ] regular business in the #Democratic-led #Senate.
    
#House Spkr #MikeJohnson broadly outlined a “3-pronged approach” Tues during a weekly conference on how the #Republican majority can #target the #DOJ, #NewYork & other jurisdictions for investigating Trump.

    #law #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  30. After a NY jury deemed #Trump a #felon last week, his staunchest supporters are focusing on what they allege is a weaponized #justice sys by ramping up #House investigations & *stalling* [ #obstruction ] regular business in the #Democratic-led #Senate.
    
#House Spkr #MikeJohnson broadly outlined a “3-pronged approach” Tues during a weekly conference on how the #Republican majority can #target the #DOJ, #NewYork & other jurisdictions for investigating Trump.

    #law #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  31. After a NY jury deemed #Trump a #felon last week, his staunchest supporters are focusing on what they allege is a weaponized #justice sys by ramping up #House investigations & *stalling* [ #obstruction ] regular business in the #Democratic-led #Senate.
    
#House Spkr #MikeJohnson broadly outlined a “3-pronged approach” Tues during a weekly conference on how the #Republican majority can #target the #DOJ, #NewYork & other jurisdictions for investigating Trump.

    #law #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  32. #GOP plans aggressive *weaponization* [ #projection ] *investigations* [ #disinformation ] in wake of #Trump #conviction
    
#House Spkr #MikeJohnson vowed to use oversight powers & other measures to target jurisdictions pursuing prosecutions of Trump.

#Republicans in #Congress doubled down on their defense of Trump after his conviction on 34 counts related to falsifying business records.

    #law #justice #obstruction #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment
    washingtonpost.com/politics/20

  33. #GOP plans aggressive *weaponization* [ #projection ] *investigations* [ #disinformation ] in wake of #Trump #conviction
    
#House Spkr #MikeJohnson vowed to use oversight powers & other measures to target jurisdictions pursuing prosecutions of Trump.

#Republicans in #Congress doubled down on their defense of Trump after his conviction on 34 counts related to falsifying business records.

    #law #justice #obstruction #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment
    washingtonpost.com/politics/20

  34. #GOP plans aggressive *weaponization* [ #projection ] *investigations* [ #disinformation ] in wake of #Trump #conviction
    
#House Spkr #MikeJohnson vowed to use oversight powers & other measures to target jurisdictions pursuing prosecutions of Trump.

#Republicans in #Congress doubled down on their defense of Trump after his conviction on 34 counts related to falsifying business records.

    #law #justice #obstruction #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment
    washingtonpost.com/politics/20

  35. #GOP plans aggressive *weaponization* [ #projection ] *investigations* [ #disinformation ] in wake of #Trump #conviction
    
#House Spkr #MikeJohnson vowed to use oversight powers & other measures to target jurisdictions pursuing prosecutions of Trump.

#Republicans in #Congress doubled down on their defense of Trump after his conviction on 34 counts related to falsifying business records.

    #law #justice #obstruction #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment
    washingtonpost.com/politics/20

  36. “That #ConspiracyTheory is an attack on the #judicial process itself,” #MerrickGarland said, adding that there has been an increase in “baseless & extremely dangerous falsehoods” being spread against #FBI agents & prosecutors.

    “These repeated attacks on the #Justice Dept are unprecedented & they are unfounded,” #Garland said. “These attacks have not, & they will not, #influence our decision-making.”

    #law #HouseRepublicans #GOP #StochasticTerrorism #democracy #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  37. “That #ConspiracyTheory is an attack on the #judicial process itself,” #MerrickGarland said, adding that there has been an increase in “baseless & extremely dangerous falsehoods” being spread against #FBI agents & prosecutors.

    “These repeated attacks on the #Justice Dept are unprecedented & they are unfounded,” #Garland said. “These attacks have not, & they will not, #influence our decision-making.”

    #law #HouseRepublicans #GOP #StochasticTerrorism #democracy #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  38. “That #ConspiracyTheory is an attack on the #judicial process itself,” #MerrickGarland said, adding that there has been an increase in “baseless & extremely dangerous falsehoods” being spread against #FBI agents & prosecutors.

    “These repeated attacks on the #Justice Dept are unprecedented & they are unfounded,” #Garland said. “These attacks have not, & they will not, #influence our decision-making.”

    #law #HouseRepublicans #GOP #StochasticTerrorism #democracy #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  39. “That #ConspiracyTheory is an attack on the #judicial process itself,” #MerrickGarland said, adding that there has been an increase in “baseless & extremely dangerous falsehoods” being spread against #FBI agents & prosecutors.

    “These repeated attacks on the #Justice Dept are unprecedented & they are unfounded,” #Garland said. “These attacks have not, & they will not, #influence our decision-making.”

    #law #HouseRepublicans #GOP #StochasticTerrorism #democracy #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  40. #Garland also rebutted #Republicans’ criticism of #Trump’s #conviction last week in NY state court on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records…. Trump & his #GOP allies have falsely claimed that #state prosecutors brought the case at the urging of the #Biden admin & the #DOJ, even though #federal prosecutors had declined to pursue the matter.

    #law #HouseRepublicans #GOP #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  41. #Garland also rebutted #Republicans’ criticism of #Trump’s #conviction last week in NY state court on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records…. Trump & his #GOP allies have falsely claimed that #state prosecutors brought the case at the urging of the #Biden admin & the #DOJ, even though #federal prosecutors had declined to pursue the matter.

    #law #HouseRepublicans #GOP #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  42. #Garland also rebutted #Republicans’ criticism of #Trump’s #conviction last week in NY state court on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records…. Trump & his #GOP allies have falsely claimed that #state prosecutors brought the case at the urging of the #Biden admin & the #DOJ, even though #federal prosecutors had declined to pursue the matter.

    #law #HouseRepublicans #GOP #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  43. #Garland also rebutted #Republicans’ criticism of #Trump’s #conviction last week in NY state court on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records…. Trump & his #GOP allies have falsely claimed that #state prosecutors brought the case at the urging of the #Biden admin & the #DOJ, even though #federal prosecutors had declined to pursue the matter.

    #law #HouseRepublicans #GOP #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  44. “Certain members of this Cmte & the Oversight Cmte are seeking #contempt as a means of obtaining — for no legitimate purpose — sensitive #law enforcement information that could harm the integrity of future investigations,” #MerrickGarland told *lawmakers* in his opening remarks at the hearing. “This effort is only the most recent in a long line of #attacks on the #Justice Department’s work.”

    #law #HouseRepublicans #GOP #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  45. “Certain members of this Cmte & the Oversight Cmte are seeking #contempt as a means of obtaining — for no legitimate purpose — sensitive #law enforcement information that could harm the integrity of future investigations,” #MerrickGarland told *lawmakers* in his opening remarks at the hearing. “This effort is only the most recent in a long line of #attacks on the #Justice Department’s work.”

    #law #HouseRepublicans #GOP #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  46. “Certain members of this Cmte & the Oversight Cmte are seeking #contempt as a means of obtaining — for no legitimate purpose — sensitive #law enforcement information that could harm the integrity of future investigations,” #MerrickGarland told *lawmakers* in his opening remarks at the hearing. “This effort is only the most recent in a long line of #attacks on the #Justice Department’s work.”

    #law #HouseRepublicans #GOP #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  47. “Certain members of this Cmte & the Oversight Cmte are seeking #contempt as a means of obtaining — for no legitimate purpose — sensitive #law enforcement information that could harm the integrity of future investigations,” #MerrickGarland told *lawmakers* in his opening remarks at the hearing. “This effort is only the most recent in a long line of #attacks on the #Justice Department’s work.”

    #law #HouseRepublicans #GOP #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

  48. ‘I will not be intimidated’: #Garland rebuts #contempt #threats from #HouseRepublicans

    AG #MerrickGarland used an appearance on Capitol Hill on Tues to forcefully defend the #DOJ against “repeated attacks” from #Republican *lawmakers* that have undermined investigations & put federal employees in #harm’s way.

    #law #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment
    washingtonpost.com/national-se

  49. ‘I will not be intimidated’: #Garland rebuts #contempt #threats from #HouseRepublicans

    AG #MerrickGarland used an appearance on Capitol Hill on Tues to forcefully defend the #DOJ against “repeated attacks” from #Republican *lawmakers* that have undermined investigations & put federal employees in #harm’s way.

    #law #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment
    washingtonpost.com/national-se

  50. ‘I will not be intimidated’: #Garland rebuts #contempt #threats from #HouseRepublicans

    AG #MerrickGarland used an appearance on Capitol Hill on Tues to forcefully defend the #DOJ against “repeated attacks” from #Republican *lawmakers* that have undermined investigations & put federal employees in #harm’s way.

    #law #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment
    washingtonpost.com/national-se

  51. ‘I will not be intimidated’: #Garland rebuts #contempt #threats from #HouseRepublicans

    AG #MerrickGarland used an appearance on Capitol Hill on Tues to forcefully defend the #DOJ against “repeated attacks” from #Republican *lawmakers* that have undermined investigations & put federal employees in #harm’s way.

    #law #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment
    washingtonpost.com/national-se