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NonilexRachel Maddow is interviewing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HamptonDellinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HamptonDellinger</a> on her show tonight. For more info:<a href="https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/114112857303923242" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/114112857303923242</a><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Dellinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dellinger</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/IndependentJudiciary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndependentJudiciary</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/watchdog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#watchdog</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/whistleblower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#whistleblower</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpecialCounsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpecialCounsel</a>

NonilexThe Office of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpecialCounsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpecialCounsel</a> investigates <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/whistleblower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#whistleblower</a> complaints & protects <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GovernmentEmployees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GovernmentEmployees</a> from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/mistreatment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mistreatment</a> in the federal workplace.  <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Dellinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dellinger</a>, a Senate-confirmed appointee of President <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Biden</a>, was fired in a short email from the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> WH in Feb. He sued the admin to stop his ouster, saying it violated a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> barring the president from removing him except for “inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.” His 5-year term was supposed to last until 2029.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#corruption</a>

NonilexAppeals court allows <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> admin to temporarily remove <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/watchdog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#watchdog</a> lawyer <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HamptonDellinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HamptonDellinger</a>A federal appeals court on Wed allowed Trump to temporarily remove the head of an <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/independent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#independent</a> watchdog agency who was investigating the admin’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MassFirings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MassFirings</a> of probationary <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FederalWorkers</a>.  In a 2-pg order, the court granted the Trump admin’s request to stay a lower court ruling that blocked Trump from summarily firing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Dellinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dellinger</a>, head of the Office of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpecialCounsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpecialCounsel</a>.  <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/05/court-decision-trump-administration-hampton-dellinger/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/05/court-decision-trump-administration-hampton-dellinger/</a>

Nonilex“It would be ironic, to say the least, & inimical to the ends furthered by the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/statute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#statute</a> if the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpecialCounsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpecialCounsel</a> himself could be chilled in his work by fear of arbitrary or <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/partisan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#partisan</a> removal,” the judge added.  Dellinger said in an emailed statement that he was grateful to see the court “confirm the importance & legality of the job protections <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Congress</a> afforded my position.”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#autocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SeparationOfPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SeparationOfPowers</a>

NonilexJudge <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AmyBermanJackson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AmyBermanJackson</a> disagreed, saying in her ruling that the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/statute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#statute</a> “must stand.” Eliminating the restrictions on Dellinger’s removal, she wrote, “would be fatal to the defining & essential feature of the Office of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpecialCounsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpecialCounsel</a> as it was conceived by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Congress</a> & signed into <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> by the President: its <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/independence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#independence</a>.”<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#autocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SeparationOfPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SeparationOfPowers</a>

NonilexDellinger’s 5-yr term was set to end in 2029.  Lawyers for the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> admin argued that Trump has the power to remove Dellinger without cause, saying a 1978 statute passed by Congress in the post-Watergate era that restricts the ability to fire the head of the Office of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpecialCounsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpecialCounsel</a> is unconstitutional.  <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#autocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SeparationOfPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SeparationOfPowers</a>

NonilexUS Dist Judge <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AmyBermanJackson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AmyBermanJackson</a>’s ruling blocks the removal of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HamptonDellinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HamptonDellinger</a> as head of the Office of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpecialCounsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpecialCounsel</a>, which investigates <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/whistleblower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#whistleblower</a> reports filed by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GovernmentWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GovernmentWorkers</a> & protects <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalEmployees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FederalEmployees</a> from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/retaliation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retaliation</a>, political <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/coercion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coercion</a> & other practices that are barred in the fed workplace.  The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> admin has indicated in court filings that it would appeal any such ruling to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a>, which on Feb 21 declined to intervene until the litigation proceeded further.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a>

NonilexJudge says <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> cannot fire head of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/independent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#independent</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/watchdog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#watchdog</a> agency  The federal judge’s decision blocks Trump from removing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HamptonDellinger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HamptonDellinger</a> as head of the Office of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpecialCounsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpecialCounsel</a> & sets up a likely <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> battle over the president’s powers.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NationalSecurity</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#autocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SeparationOfPowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SeparationOfPowers</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/01/hampton-dellinger-trump-office-special-counsel/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/01/hampton-dellinger-trump-office-special-counsel/</a>

NonilexIt will remain in effect through April 10 so that the Office of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpecialCounsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpecialCounsel</a> can continue investigating the complaints. The 6 employees come from 6 different <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalAgencies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FederalAgencies</a>.“I find that there are reasonable grounds to believe that each of the 6 agencies engaged in a prohibited personnel practice,” Raymond A. Limon, a member of the board, wrote in his order.The decision ultimately could apply more broadly to thousands of other <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FederalWorkers</a>.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpPurge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrumpPurge</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DOGE</a>

NonilexA government <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/watchdog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#watchdog</a> lawyer whose dismissal by <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> has been stalled by the courts announced on Monday that his office would seek to pause the mass <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/firings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#firings</a> of some probationary <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FederalWorkers</a>.The lawyer, Hampton Dellinger, who leads the Office of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpecialCounsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpecialCounsel</a>, a government agency that protects <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WhistleBlowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WhistleBlowers</a>, said his office had determined that the firings might violate the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a>.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#labor</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/chaos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#chaos</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/us/politics/special-counsel-fired-federal-workers.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=85169D7B-0680-4A58-AC03-1450A9607439" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/us/politics/special-counsel-fired-federal-workers.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=85169D7B-0680-4A58-AC03-1450A9607439</a>

NonilexThe order appeared limited to the 6 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FederalWorkers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FederalWorkers</a> in the case, but offered a measure of hope for thousands of government workers seeking to be reinstated. Lawyers for the workers said in a statement that they would now work to expand the order “to cover all probationary federal employees who were unlawfully terminated.” The <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Merit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Merit</a> Systems Protection Board ordered that the employees be reinstated for 45 days while the Office of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpecialCounsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpecialCounsel</a> investigates their cases.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DOGE</a>

Democracy Matters :verified:A private attorney asked a New York judge not to dismiss the corruption case against New York city Mayor Eric Adams.From the filing: “No party before the Court is representing the public interest. We respectfully ask the Court to appoint a special counsel to advise the Court in resolving this unfortunate matter.”<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EricAdams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EricAdams</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SpecialCounsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpecialCounsel</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StopTrumpNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StopTrumpNow</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RepublicansOwnThis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RepublicansOwnThis</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a>

NonilexIn the first case to reach <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SCOTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SCOTUS</a> arising from the blitz of actions taken in the early weeks of the new admin, lawyers for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> asked the justices on Sunday to let him fire a govt lawyer who leads a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/watchdog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#watchdog</a> agency.The admin’s emergency application asked the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SupremeCourt</a> to vacate a federal trial judge’s order temporarily reinstating Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpecialCounsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpecialCounsel</a>.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USpol</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#autocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DOJ</a>

NonilexOne lawsuit, filed by 9 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FBI</a> agents who had worked on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Jan6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Jan6</a> cases or <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpecialCounsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpecialCounsel</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JackSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JackSmith</a>’s 2 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#criminal</a> investigations of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a>, asked the court to grant them <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClassAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClassAction</a> status to represent all affected agents nationwide & warned that any public release of agents’ names would expose them & their families to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/retribution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retribution</a>.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/revenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#revenge</a>

NonilexIn one memo, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PamBondi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PamBondi</a> will establish a “Weaponization Working Group” to review <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a> enforcement actions enacted under the Biden admin for any examples of “politicized justice.”That review will cover cases brought by fmr <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpecialCounsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpecialCounsel</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JackSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JackSmith</a> over <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s mishandling of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClassifiedDocuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClassifiedDocuments</a> & 2020 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ElectionInterference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ElectionInterference</a>, Manhattan DA <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AlvinBragg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AlvinBragg</a>’s hush-money case that led to a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conviction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conviction</a> & a case from NYAG <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LetitiaJames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LetitiaJames</a>, in which she won a $454M civil <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fraud</a> judgment against Trump.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#law</a>

joe•iuculano :mastodon:«Federal prosecutors moved on Wednesday to drop their last remaining efforts to prosecute President <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a>’s two co-defendants in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClassifiedDocuments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClassifiedDocuments</a> case brought by the former <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpecialCounsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpecialCounsel</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JackSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JackSmith</a>In a single-page filing, prosecutors asked a federal appeals court in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Atlanta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Atlanta</a> to dismiss an appeal that had been filed before Mr. Trump took office seeking to reinstate criminal charges against the two men, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WaltNauta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaltNauta</a> and <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CarlosDeOliveira" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CarlosDeOliveira</a>»<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/us/politics/trump-classified-documents-case.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/us/politics/trump-classified-documents-case.html</a>

der.hansAG is podcasting Jack Smith's Final Report ( the part we get to see ) as part of her Jack: A Special Counsel Podcast<a href="https://mswmedia.com/show/jack-a-special-counsel-podcast/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mswmedia.com/show/jack-a-special-counsel-podcast/</a>She made the first episode that night after the report was released<a href="https://podtail.com/en/podcast/mueller-she-wrote/jack-smith-s-final-report-volume-1/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://podtail.com/en/podcast/mueller-she-wrote/jack-smith-s-final-report-volume-1/</a>Co-host Andy McCabe joins her in reading for the second episode<a href="https://podtail.com/en/podcast/mueller-she-wrote/jack-smith-s-final-report-volume-1-part-2/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://podtail.com/en/podcast/mueller-she-wrote/jack-smith-s-final-report-volume-1-part-2/</a>AG created Jack ( formerly Mueller She Wrote ), Clean Up on Aisle 45 and the Daily Beans podcasts<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JackSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JackSmith</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FinalReportVol1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FinalReportVol1</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpecialCounsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpecialCounsel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MerrickGarland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MerrickGarland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USpol</a>

joe•iuculano :mastodon:Via <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KyleGriffin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KyleGriffin</a> @ 1:45pm ET on Jan 25, 2025<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AG</a> pick <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PamBondi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PamBondi</a> refuses to say whether she will investigate former <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpecialCounsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpecialCounsel</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/JackSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JackSmith</a> or <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LizCheney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LizCheney</a>.

Zhi Zhu 🕸️Here is the official DOJ online post of the "Report of Special Counsel Smith, Volume 1"<a href="https://www.justice.gov/storage/Report-of-Special-Counsel-Smith-Volume-1-January-2025.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.justice.gov/storage/Report-of-Special-Counsel-Smith-Volume-1-January-2025.pdf</a> How soon after Jan 20 will that official posting be removed? The corrupt <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> administration will certainly not leave it up.<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SpecialCounsel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SpecialCounsel</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/JackSmith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JackSmith</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Report" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Report</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Jan6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Jan6</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Insurrection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Insurrection</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GOP</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Corruption</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USA</a>

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