The Justice Department is requiring all US attorneys to rapidly assign prosecutors for “emergency jump teams” supporting districts handling alleged assaults or obstruction of law enforcement, according to an internal memo obtained by Bloomberg Law.
A senior official instructed leaders of the nation’s 93 US attorney’s offices Feb. 2 that they have until Feb. 6 to designate one or two assistant US attorneys who’d be available for short-term surges in unspecified areas needing “urgent assistance due to emergent or critical situations.” The memo coincides with media reports this week of a new round of mass resignations of federal prosecutors in Minneapolis.
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Something something all authority is born at the end of a gun.
“A lawyer says this is illegal.” They’ll deny access to lawyers. They’ll ignore lawyers. They’ll arrest lawyers. I’m pretty sure they’ve done all three at least once by now. Once killing people becomes open policy and not something they have to hide and mask through innuendo, they’ll kill lawyers, too.
They are the ones with the guns and the audacity to use them, so they have the power of action while we throw paper at them.
You’re right, subsume is probably a better word, but they cannot do that without utterly invalidating the systems that exist now that are in their way. And they are doing that through audaciously and violently ignoring them, so don’t be surprised when they do the same to the Western concept of criminal justice.