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You think replacing Bondi with Blanche is "progress"?
Reminder that Blanche was Trump's defense attorney in multiple trials, and Blanche was the one who interviewed Ghislane Maxwell last year before she got moved to the cushy puppy prison.
I do. Todd Blanche is nothing, just a jumped up criminal defense lawyer. You seem to be unaware that people of conscience walking out of Trump's administration on the justice side has already resulted in both Alina Habba and Lindsey Halligan being forced out of their illegally held positions.
And at least two revenge prosecution cases near and dear to the orange pustule, those of James Comey and Letitia James, were also thrown out because of the sheer incompetence of the lackeys appointed to the positions vacated by people of conscience. But that hasn't stopped them from trying, except they're so incredibly shitty at what they do now they can't even get grand juries to indict.
I'm not even counting how almost all the career prosecutors walking out of the Minnesota AG office completely crippled the DoJ's goal of investigating and charging Renee Good's wife, as well as stopped in its tracks any hope of making that state a showpiece of legal retribution against its many activists and protesters, which is what investigating and (they hoped) charging Good's wife would have kicked off for them. All gone, simply because the people with experience and a working conscience left and took their combined experience and institutional knowledge with them.
All of this, including Bondi's firing, is yet another stake in the heart of this administration's revenge prosecution program. And wherever it happens, high or low, it's a BIG step forward in making sure the fascists are crippled from using the courts as tools of control and retribution against the rest of us.
TL;DR: When all a "leader" values is loyalty and everything else is a distant third -- like prosecutorial expertise in a HIGHLY technical field such as criminal law -- they should expect their opposition to rejoice when they've fired someone even fractionally competent, because it's a complete own-goal that will pay off royally for anyone in opposition to the administration.
I totally agree that people of conscience resigning from DoJ and other positions of power is a good thing. I'm well aware of what you said, despite your condescending suggestion. I just don't see how that is relevent to the firing of Bondi.
What gives you the impression that Bondi is fractionally competent, and what gives you confidence that her replacement will be less competent?
She actually has experience, if not discernible skill, at heading a government legal agency: she was Florida AG 2011 - 2019. Before that she was a prosecutor with actual litigation experience who appears to have come up the ranks. She was also able to use her position to enrich herself and protect Trump, which may seem easy on the face of it, in Florida especially, but there are still various obstacles like competent judges, opposing attorneys, and state laws to navigate, which she did. She also argued against the appointments of both Habba and Halligan, which suggests she understood what a train wreck that was going to be, but was overruled by Trump.
That is a LOW fucking bar, lol. It's like asking if a cockroach can excel at limbo. So regardless of who is ultimately chosen, "Yes."
Are you suggesting otherwise? I don't share your faith that Bondi was too incompetent to be easily bested in incompetence by any replacement chosen. As I said above,
I said that because almost all of Trump's legal picks share a specific characteristic, and it's not smarts. And there's another thing to consider: this appointment may be different because he picks men when he "wants something done" and women when he wants a meat shield, but specifically when it comes to picking disposable attorneys, Trump evaluates legal talent with his eyes.
He's an interim appointment, Lee is the likely successor. And yes, failure in this administration on all levels is progress