Saturday, September 06, 2025

The Dumbest Timeline

William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!”

Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?”

William Roper: “Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!”

Sir Thomas More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!
Blumenthal: In New Jersey, they’ve exhausted the 120 days for Alina Habba, and so they’ve tried to make her acting US Attorney. But the statutes simply don’t authorize that. A judge has concluded she is without authority for any of the actions she’s taken. For a US Attorney to be making taking actions without authority means those prosecutions, when brought to court, could be challenged successfully. Everything she’s done could be challenged. Everything her assistant US attorneys have done could be challenged. It’s a major upheaval — a cause of chaos in that district — for these kinds of shenanigans and manipulations to go on.
Chaos not just in one district:
Noting that seven prominent cases have already been stymied by grand juries, he admitted there is no way to know what transpired in grand jury deliberations; nonetheless, a trend is becoming very apparent.

According to former U.S. S Attorney Barbara McQuade, what is happening during Bondi’s tenure — both the aggressiveness of the prosecutions as well as the frequency of failures to get a true bill –- is extraordinary.

“First of all, it is exceedingly rare for any grand jury to reject a proposed indictment because ordinarily prosecutors use discretion in only bringing cases that are strong and advance the interests of justice. I have seen this maybe once or twice in my career of 20 years, but this is something different,” the popular cable TV legal analyst offered.

“My guess is that these grand jurors are seeing prosecutorial overreach and they don’t want to be part of it,” she suggested.

The Trump administration’s efforts are also being stymied by judges who are growing weary of being led astray by the DOJ prosecutors.

“The erosion of this trust — known in legal parlance as the presumption of regularity — has been widespread in the many civil cases challenging Mr. Trump’s political agenda, where judges have repeatedly accused Justice Department lawyers of misleading them or violating their orders,” Feuer wrote before adding, “But now the phenomenon has started to crop up in criminal cases, too.”

According to federal Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui, who is in a pitched battle with controversial U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro over multiple cases that have been shot down by grand juries, “Blind deference to the government. That is no longer a thing. Trust that has been earned over generations has been lost in weeks.”
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