Fight The Future Anyway

 Not unexpected.

From Reuters: CAREER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR TO SIGN MOTION TO DISMISS ADAMS CASE AFTER PRESSURE FROM ACTING DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL-SOURCES

Not really falling on the hand grenade:

Acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove assembled DOJ's remaining public corruption prosecutors this morning and gave them an hour to find someone to sign the Eric Adams dismissal. 

One of them agreed to do it, to spare the others from potentially being fired. 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/federal-prosecutor-will-sign-motion-dismiss-adams-charges-bid-save-colleagues-2025-02-14/

I spent too much of my adult life involuntarily unemployed (it doesn’t take much to be “too much”), and I would not advocate someone putting themselves in that position for my sense of umbrage or ethics.

But it would have been nobler for the roomful of lawyers to just walk out with middle fingers raised. Because this is the future of the DOJ:

In 2 years time the average prosecutor will be a Liberty University graduate who just got their law license and will spend half their day getting dressed down federal judges. They'll spend the other half of that day yelling at their Senators to impeach said judges.

From one of the best places to work (civil and criminal), the DOJ will be one of the worst. It will turn out, the guy who saved their jobs didn’t save them from anything.

And we will all suffer for it. It will be the Texas AG’s office, on a national scale.

More and more I see, in government, that as goes Texas, so goes D.C. That is not a good thing. And this is cold comfort:

"Somehow I doubt that Bove’s blunderbuss blundering will put the Department of Justice in good stead with Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Kavanaugh, or any other justice," Whelan concluded.

That’s not going to make the DOJ anymore effective in bread ‘n’ butter criminal and civil cases.  Besides, Thomas and Alito would probably happily sign off on it. I’m not even sure Roberts won’t find some reason to “protect the Presidency” again, if only in hopes everyone would finally understand what he meant in Trump v U.S.