D.C. Grand Jury Declines To Indict Sandwich Thrower

Many things have happened. Here are some of the things. This is the morning memo of TPM. Register For the e-mail version.

No factor for assault with a weapon of charcuterie

A Grand Jury of DC refused to charge the parajurist of Doj, Sean Dunn, who launched a sandwich against a federal officer during demonstrations against hyper-feedralization by President Trump of the national capital, reports the NYT.

The incident outside a metro (it was a salami sandwich) came to represent both intense local opposition to the target by Trump on the false pretext of crime outside control and the overall absurdity of the situation.

Not obtaining an indictment is a relatively rare event because prosecutors control the entire process before a large jury. With a few exceptions, the prosecutors are not in order to present business lost to the big juries.

This is the second case last week arising from the Trumpian occupation of the Columbia district where the great juries refused to instill crimes. Three different major juries refused to return the indictment against Sidney Lori Reid, accused by prosecutors of having injured an FBI agent near DC prison during the transfer of alleged gang members. The American lawyer’s office Jeanine Pirro finally abandoned the accusation to an offense, which does not require accusation.

The prosecutors were trying to charge Dunn for a similar assault accusation which they had not obtained against Reid.

Folder note of the day

The American district judge Thomas Cullen of the Western District of Virginia, one appointed against Trump, sitting, in his order, rejecting a trial of the Trump administration against all the federal judges of Maryland:

Indeed, in recent months, the main officers of the executive (and their spokespersons) described the federal judges of the district across the country as “on the left”, “liberals”, “activists”, “radical”, “politically in mind”, “rogue”, “disturbed”, “outrageous, too zealous, zealous, too zealous, [and] unconstitutional “,” “[c]enlisted ”, and worse. Although a certain tension between the government’s coordinates branches is a characteristic of our constitutional system, this concerted effort of the executive to dirty and challenge the individual judges who pronounce against it are both unprecedented and unhappy.

Hannah Dugan loses the request for rejection

Wisconsin’s state judge Hannah Dugan lost her attempted rejection of the Trump administration’s criminal prosecution for pretending to interfere with the immigration application agents trying to hold an undocumented immigrant in her courthouse. The decision of the American district judge Lynn Adelman of Wisconsin has ratified a similar decision of a federal magistrate.

A possible index of the resignation of a Trump lawyer in the United States?

In the depths of a somewhat complicated nyt report on another false effort by Trump Doj to revitalize and seek reprisals for the federal survey on Russian interference in the 2016 elections is a potential index to know why the former state legislator Todd Gilbert suddenly resigned last week as an American lawyer with the occasion for the Western district of Virginia, after a single month of work, American lawyer.

The investigation is based in Charlottesville, Virginia, more than a hundred kilometers from where the events in question took place, but those responsible justified it with this office due to an FBI document storage establishment in Winchester, Virginia, according to people familiar with the case that describes the case subject to anonymity to discuss it publicly.

The history of the NYT then continues to note Gilbert’s resignation. While the NYT continues to link the resignation to the investigation, the juxtaposition of history is … blatant.

The purges

• Doj: About 75% of career lawyers in the DOJ civil rights division have left in recent months, reports Bloomberg Law, replaced by what deputy prosecutor Harmeet Dhillon calls “a new class of civil rights warriors”.
• Fema: The Federal Emergency Management Agency suspended the 36 employees who used their names when signing a letter to the congress this week by warning that President Trump emptied the capacity for response to government disasters. A total of 182 employees signed the letter, but most did it anonymously.

Fox in the hen alert

Heather Honey, a high -level denial of the loss of Trump in the 2020 elections and a protégé by Cleta Mitchell, was appointed to a newly created senior position in the Department of Internal Security, where it will help supervise the country’s electoral infrastructure, reports Propublica.

Corey Lewandowski has a veto right on DHS contracts

Trump’s former campaign director Corey Lewandowski is the last stop before six -digit contracts reached the office of the DHS secretary, Kristi Noem, for his approval, reports Politico. Noem has imposed an impracticable microometer requirement so that it personally approves contracts and subsidies of more than $ 100,000, creating a neck of persistent strangulation in the third largest service of the cabinet.

Lisa Cook’s tests and tribulations

For your reading:

• Charlie Savage notes what is different in this affair of other cases of independent agency so far in Trump II: “His attempt to fire Ms. Cook presents a new turn. This raises the question of whether he can decide whether there are reasons to dismiss an official in an independent agency whose managers are protected by the law of arbitrary justification.
• Politico reports that the courts can be reluctant to dig too deep if Trump’s pretext for dismissal Cook is a false.
• Kate Riga de TPM argues the important point that Trump used the alleged cook’s “reason” as a rescue position which could avoid a direct confrontation with the Roberts court, which has already approved This year Independence of the federal reserve.
• Greg Sargent de TNR focuses on the origin of the false allegations against Cook of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the chief of the Pulte agency: “People having experience in mortgage law and governance tell me that Cook’s lawyer, he can use the discovery process on the reason why Pulte has targeted these mortgages and on any discovery process.

Day thread

Put it from Oh! in Doge

After the Roberts court opened the way in June so that Doge has access to sensitive social security information from all Americans, DOGE employees downloaded a crucial social security database to a vulnerable cloud server, according to new allegations of Whistleblower Charles Borges which was returned on Tuesday.

Denmark invokes the American ambassador after the spy request

The Danish Foreign Ministry summoned the American ambassador today after the main public broadcaster in Denmark reported that three American men linked to the administration of President Donald Trump carried out an influence operation in Greenland. American men were not appointed to the Danish report.

A 3 -hour meter a dictator might like

In an orgy of “inflation of flattery”, the members of the cabinet of President Trump tried to surpass himself with exaggerated cultist praise for their leader while he was reading, strummate and projects television cameras for more than three atrocious hours on Tuesday.

“It has enabled similarities … with meetings of ministers from other countries where managers have sought to exercise strong and personal personal control over large expanses of national life,” reported the WAPO.

For his part, Trump presumed the absurd praise and also adopted the vision of the court of Roberts on the unitary executive: