Monday, November 24, 2025

Wheels Within Wheels

So, about that:
"Her future was already pretty well sealed ... with a series of blunders and pratfalls, including misconduct in the grand jury," Litman said of Halligan. "There seemed to have been some serious mistakes.
This is a problem Bondi (and Trump) can’t bluster their way out of. And if those blunders and pratfalls taint other cases….
Brower piled on, telling CNN host Erica Hill that prosecutors who worked under Halligan have stopped all new case filings due to the chaos within the Eastern District of Virginia that was touched off after her disqualification. He pointed to similar examples of this happening to other improperly appointed prosecutors that President Donald Trump nominated, like Alina Habba in the District of New Jersey., and said that the chaos is likely to continue of the Trump administration follows through on its promise to appeal Halligan's disqualification.

"For an acting U.S. attorney who's been deemed unlawfully appointed to be continuing to act raises all kinds of issues that put very real, very important cases in jeopardy simply because they may have her name on it," Brower said. "So this really this puts the U.S. attorney's offices around the country that are in similar positions — and Main Justice — in a real tough spot in terms of having to figure out now,how do they go forward and prosecute cases? ... It's a very real problem for the DOJ right now."
What does Trump care? He just wants his pound of flesh.
Litman added to Brower's point, observing that the administration standing by Halligan "short-circuits any sorts of considerations that anybody in prudence would make."

"While that appeal goes forward ... Everything's in jeopardy in that office so long as Halligan still remains the acting U.S. attorney," Litman said. "And when the Court of Appeals rules, it could be a total ... overhaul of everything that's been done to date."
Meaning any case Halligan touched, could be in jeopardy as much as…a year from now?

And again: Trump doesn’t care.  ETTD is proving to be an iron law.
JD Vance throws kerosene, of course, on the fire Trump started.
After four years of house prices doubling (and in some areas, tripling) many young people feel priced out of the American Dream of homeownership. A welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota reveals that large numbers of new arrivals aren't assimilating and are funneling our tax dollars to literal terrorist groups. An innocent woman was set on fire in Chicago as the mayor resists federal law enforcement resources to bring peace to one of our great cities. The Obamacare insurance system is buckling under its own weight. And the country is $38 trillion in debt.

Our administration is working hard on addressing all of these problems.

But you know what really fires up the beltway GOP? Not any of the above. Instead, the political class is really angry that the Trump administration may finally bring a four year conflict in Eastern Europe to a close.

I'm not even talking about the substance of their views. Much of what these people have said about the Ukraine war has been proven wrong, but whatever. We can agree to disagree.

But the level of passion over this one issue when your own country has serious problems is bonkers.

It disgusts me. Show some passion for your own country.
The Secretary of Energy is almost as useless. So we (“we”? We who?) can nationalize the energy it takes to power a…Walmart? And do what with it? Power crypto data mining and AI data centers? The same thing creating the bubble that Trump has built the economy on, a bubble that is bound to burst?

Idiots.
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1 comment:

  1. jim, some guy in iowa2:17 AM

    Has anyone asked Grok if it was smart of Trump to throw away renewable energy at the same time he was promoting energy-consuming data centers?

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