A federal judge on Monday said she was “furious” with the Trump administration’s move over the weekend to cut down at least 430 trees from a Washington, DC, public golf course that President Donald Trump is seeking to renovate.
US District Judge Ana Reyes, who is overseeing a legal challenge to Trump’s plans to overhaul the East Potomac Golf Course, put a tentative hold on any further tree removal and is holding an emergency hearing Monday, in which she told Justice Department attorneys they had lost “credibility” with her because they gave less than a day’s notice before cutting down the trees.
“More than just being upset and furious right now, I am just beyond disappointed with the government,” Reyes said. When a DOJ attorney said they had done their “best” to give her and the plaintiffs a heads-up, the judge said, her voice raised, “No, you did your absolute worst.”
“I am thoroughly unamused right now,” Reyes also said.
This inJustice Department had any credibility with her?
Why? It is run by donnie’s personal lawyer, FFS. And before that, it was Pam Blondi.
Previously it did have a really good reputation. But you don’t have to be a legal eagle Watcher to know that that’s long gone and it is a complete joke now. All you had to do was pay attention during sandwich gate. Or watch Janine Piro’s kayak moment.
Yes, 100% - before donnie came along, yes. It’s a complete shitshow the past 22 months or so.
George W. Bush trying to use his DOJ to prosecute non-violent Quaker protestors… Yeah, great reputation.
Oh the same DOJ that fucked with Aaron Swartz until he killed himself… That DOJ? Before Swartz was Bruce Ivins, whose name has been cleared by modern evidence. Didn’t mean they didn’t hound him to suicide.
The DOJ that has always used kid gloves with the wealthy and connected and an iron fist with anyone else.
Get the fuck out of here. This what the DOJ has always done, they just used to be better at faking the “justice” bit.
They used to say that a Grand Jury could indict a ham sandwich… That doesn’t speak to an agency that is worried about “justice” as much as “career prospects.”
If they can indict a ham sandwich, a non living entity, the point is they can indict anyone for anything and still get a guilty charge. That’s unequivocally A VERY BAD THING.
Either you’re ignorant or intentionally shit-stirring. Yeah, there have always been problems. On the federal level they were pretty clean relative to most other countries in the world.
To equate at all what’s happening now with the DoJ of ten years ago is to minimize the current crisis.
Yes, billionaires have had a lot of advantages. They have more resources to play the game. But sitting Congressmen did go to prison. The Binance guy and Sam Bankman Fried both went to prison. There was largely some justice, and when things did go wrong there was sometimes a legal remedy for it.
Above all, there was a constant push to improve.
I was speaking of within the legal profession. I agree with you. But within the legal profession it had previously had an impeccable record.
Remember both Schwartz and Snowden violated laws. Though just because something is a law doesn’t make it good or right. But the legal profession was doing what the legal profession was supposed to at the time. At least in a minimal sense. Even if not an equal application. Now any pretense of them actually doing the job they’re supposed to is gone. They are just a fascist lap dog purely now.
The problem is we don’t have a justice system, we have a legal system.
“When PLUNDER becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that AUTHORIZES it and a moral code that GLORIFIES it.”
-Frederic Bastiat- (1801–1850) France
There is a legal principle established by case law called the “presumption of regularity.” By precedent, Judge Reyes is required to presume that the government lawyers are being credible and straight up with her
Regardless of whatever she personally believes, she is putting them on notice that they have now lost that presumption through their behavior.
Fair enough.