Morning Memo comes to you today from Pittsburgh, where my son – whose heartbreaking path through his university years that I have already shared with you – is graduated yesterday.
Not normal
Three career prosecutors resigned of the Ministry of Justice for a very unusual post-Verdert advocacy agreement concluded by Trump's acting lawyer in Los Angeles. The advocacy agreement presents itself in a case where an assistant to a sheriff was sentenced in February for having used excessive force against a black woman.
“A plea agreement filed Thursday late Thursday indicates that if Trevor Kirk pleads guilty of deprivation of crime rights under the color of the law, the office of the American prosecutor” will move to strike the conclusion of the jury “that he injured his victim, which made his crime a crime”, Meghann Cuniff First reported.
Friday, the four federal prosecutors who dealt with the case and did not sign the advocacy withdrew from the case. It was signed in the name of the acting lawyer Bill Essayli by an American assistant lawyer not previously involved in the case.
Saturday, La Times reported That three of the prosecutors – Deputy Prosecutors of the United States Eli A. Alcaraz, Brian R. Faerstein and the head of the Cassie Palmer section – had completely resigned from the Ministry of Justice.
The advocacy agreement sets up a spectacular departure in the condemnation of what Kirk was faced with the conviction for crime, reports Cunffuff:
Kirk has experienced about nine years in prison under the directives of the United States Determination Commission for its conviction for crime, but its condemnation for offense has a maximum of one year. However, Essayli and Keenan have agreed to recommend only a year of probation. They also did not prevent him from working in the application of laws.
A judge must always approve the advocacy agreement.
Skeptical judges towards Trump Doj
The rapid deterioration of the quality of work of the Ministry of Justice under President Trump was not lost for federal judges, the WAPO reports.
The judge strikes Trump Eo against Perkins Coie
American district judge Beryl Howell declared “Null and Null” Trump's executive decree targeting Perkins Coie, the first time that a judge has permanently the application of the application of one of President Trump's decrees targeting law firms.
In 102 pages notice Clearly written to be judged by history, Howell invoked Shakespeare, John Adams and Alexis de Tocqueville to note that the decree sent a constitutionally unacceptable message: “Lawyers must stick to the party line, or.”
In an important bottom noteHowell criticized law firms who have concluded agreements with President Trump rather than risking being targeted by a decree:
[S]Customers can accommodate reservations on the implications of these transactions for the vigorous and zealous representation to which they are titled of an ethically responsible lawyer, because at least the advertising conditions seem only to prevent, rather than to eliminate, the threat of being targeted in an executive order.It is only when lawyers have the choice to challenge rather than retreat when confronted with government actions raising non -trivial constitutional issues that can be addressed to justice for a legal examination of legal merits, as has been done in this case … If the founding history of this country is a guide, those who have risen before the Court to justify the constitutional rights and, what is promoting the rule of law The model that the models will be the models that have been washed when writing the American rule.
Exclusive TPM: a new attack on the judicial branch
Josh Kovensky of TPM reports the implications of a trial By the foundation of Stephen Miller, First First Foundation against chief judge John Roberts and the head of the administrative office of the American courts. Although it is ostensibly a prosia trial, he asked a federal judge to declare that the administrative office of the United States courts and the United States judicial conference are independent agencies of the executive power. It is a troll-ish argument, but seems designed to lay the legal bases so that President Trump affirms the control of the administration of the federal judiciary.
The second amendment prevails over
The Trump administration has deleted A memorial at the ATF seat honest victims of armed violence.
January 6 Alert of revisionism
- In a remarkable meeting during the weekend in Mar-A-Lago, the former leader of proud boys Enrique Tarrio-found guilty of seditious conspiracy for his role on January 6. – Personally thanked President Trump for forgiven him.
- In a reversal of the legal position of the Ministry of Justice, the Trump administration has reaches a regulation In principle in the trial of $ 30 million for the unjustified death brought by the family of Ashli Babbit, the riot of January 6 that Trump became a martyr. The terms of the regulation have not been disclosed.
- Senate's judicial democrats are boosting The Doj Trump for having adopted the post that the government must reimburse the return paid by the defendants by Trump forgiven on January 6.
Good reading
Greg Sargent: How inadvertently has saboto his own case against Abrego Garcia sabotaged
Day quote
“In this country, the federal government cannot stop American citizens who have not committed a crime. In this country, we do not threaten to persecute people simply because they belong to a different political party. ” –Gov. Wisconsin. Tony Evers D), after the tsar border Tom Homan alluded to criminal charges on a note issued to state employees faced with federal immigration authorities
IMPORTANT
While President Trump Backed Away in Recent Days from Targeting the Tax-Exempt Status of Nonprofits Beyond Harvard, Trump Administration Officials at the Irs Continue to Explore to Alter the Rules Governing How Nonprofit Groups Can Be Denied Taxempt Status, The WSJ reports.
The Destruction: LGBTQ Health Edition
Nyt: “Of the 669 subsidies that the National Institutes of Health had canceled in whole or in part at the beginning of May, at least 323 – almost half of them – linked to LGBTQ health, according to an examination of the period of each subsidy.”
The Destruction: Arts and Humanities Edition
For the record …
– The White House (@Whitehouse) May 3, 2025
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