Trump's DOJ Fed Investigation Crash And Burn Is A Turning Point For America
Trump's wave of political prosecutions may have finally hit their limit as a judge didn't just reject the DOJ's subpoenas, he trashed them and called them a political pretext.
People had legitimate concerns about the second Trump administration seizing power and destroying the nation’s constitutional system of checks and balances.
Republicans in the House and Senate have gladly turned their power over to Trump and have not tried to act as a coequal branch of government. There have been no checks on the administration by the Republican-controlled legislative branch.
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The courts have been a different story. What began as normal course of business rulings against the Trump administration have taken a much firmer stance as the administration has shown that it needs to be forced to obey court orders.
One of Trump’s theories of presidential power was that he could use the presidency to investigate and prosecute those whom he thinks are his political enemies.
The political prosecutions haven’t gone well because, in some instances, the president was found to have illegally appointed acting U.S. attorneys after those who held the positions were fired or resigned for refusing to pursue baseless political prosecutions.
In other situations, the cases have fallen apart.
Trump installed former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. to carry out his political prosecutions, but Judge James Boasberg blocked her subpoenas into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell from being enforced, and ripped apart the administration’s pretext for investigation.
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