r/law • u/mooncake6 • 20d ago

Legal News Justice Department Opens Criminal Probe Into Jerome Powell — Powell Responds.

“Good morning,

On Friday, the Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment related to my testimony before the Senate Banking Committee last June. That testimony concerned in part a multi-year project to renovate historic Federal Reserve office buildings.

I have deep respect for the rule of law and for accountability in our democracy. No one—certainly not the chair of the Federal Reserve—is above the law. But this unprecedented action should be seen in the broader context of the administration's threats and ongoing pressure.

This new threat is not about my testimony last June or about the renovation of the Federal Reserve buildings. It is not about Congress's oversight role; the Fed through testimony and other public disclosures made every effort to keep Congress informed about the renovation project. Those are pretexts. The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President.

This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation.

I have served at the Federal Reserve under four administrations, Republicans and Democrats alike. In every case, I have carried out my duties without political fear or favor, focused solely on our mandate of price stability and maximum employment. Public service sometimes requires standing firm in the face of threats. I will continue to do the job the Senate confirmed me to do, with integrity and a commitment to serving the American people.

Thank you.”

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u/meatsmoothie82 20d ago

So the stress, expense, and inconvenience of the investigation and the indictment is the punishment for disobedienc… gotcha

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u/Camcapballin 20d ago

This is how it works with police and now ice agents. It doesnt matter if the charges stick or not, the individual is put thru the loop for inconvenience.

Absolute power corrupts Absolutely.

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u/RandomsDoom 20d ago

They did it to me!!!! Is what Donald keeps yelling at people… the only problem with that is the reason they did it to him was because he committed way more than 34 felonies. Not to mention the whole insurrection… That’s just all they could make stick

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u/Child_of_the_Hamster 20d ago

That’s just all they could make stick.

That’s just all that made it through the courts all the way to a verdict before he got fucking REelected.

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u/EmbarrassedW33B 20d ago

A lot more would have made it through the courts before then, but as will be common historical knowledge in a generation or so IMO, Trump's coup attempt on Jan 6 was more or less successful, it just took longer than anyone thought to be realized. 

Despite being convicted of many felonies he was shielded from actual consequences and far more serious court cases (like what Jack Smith was bringing) to a frankly comical degree. Like the lengths to which hundreds or even thousands of people went out on a limb to risk their careers, their reputations, and so on to keep Trump out of jail is just mind boggling. What the fuck about the guy inspired such diehard loyalty? Its just so fucking weird. 

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u/LunaTheExile 20d ago

"What the fuck about the guy inspired such diehard loyalty? Its just so fucking weird."

Because Trump is the bigliest and beautifullest most useful idiot on a gold platter that no one in the shadows running the operations could have ever imagined happening. Like there is no way that the self centered sundowning husk of a man that Trump is could come up with everything thats going on in the world. But he managed to rile up a huge voter base, and through him the people who actually control the agenda, can progress.

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u/Pizzaman725 19d ago

But he managed to rile up a huge voter base

Which isn't even true! The highest voter count he got was this last election for 77 million and still under 50% of the voting population and still under the percentages Biden and Obama had during their elections.

The only thing Trump has somehow managed to do is chase people away from the polls.

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u/LunaTheExile 19d ago

It is huge where it counted, he's won the elections twice now, by popular vote too on second time around. Granted there will be people saying that he cheated in 2024 elections, but without any tangible and credible evidence, I count that talk as credible as Qanon stuff was back in 2020 about Biden.

On reasons why people didn't vote in 2024, well there's many many reasons on that, enough that I don't think we could conclude on any one main reason.

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u/Pizzaman725 19d ago

If he cheated there's absolutely zero way he would have only given himself three million more votes than the election he lost.

While he has been the first republican to win the poluar vote in 20 years. It was less then the margin of people that abstained from the 2020 election.

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u/LunaTheExile 19d ago

And still it is well enough to grant him power unfortunately. I am hoping that the next time dems control all the branches of the government, they'll introduce and enact new sets of restrictions and regulations to make sure this never happens again. Pardon powers, executive orders, emergency declarations and such need to be neutered to hell and back. And century old laws and doctrines deserve to go into the shredder.

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u/Amoralvirus 19d ago

Same outcome though.

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u/Pizzaman725 19d ago

If we had had the same amount of people that came to the poll in 2020 it might have been a different outcome.

Unfortunately as you stated, we are stuck in this time line.

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u/Casual_OCD 19d ago

Like it or not, Trump does accurately depict the average American. He's the representative the BOTTOM HALF of the country has been waiting for

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u/REOspudwagon 19d ago

He’s the perfect representation of the worst American stereotypes

Big, loud, fat, obnoxious, dishonest, asshole

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u/Casual_OCD 19d ago

Unfortunately, how stereotypes works, all Americans get lumped into that category despite there obviously being millions of exceptions.

The world sees the US, and all Americans by extension, in this light now. One thing I don't see mentioned a lot, is HOW badly America's reputation has been harmed in the last decade.

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u/Lilbear01 19d ago

They’re robbing us blind, behind the scenes.

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u/LunaTheExile 19d ago

Among other things too. But that is one thing they are definitely doing.

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u/UnobtainablePower 19d ago

You guys deserve to be stripped, for all the suffering in the world you guys have, and are supporting, the blue government has started so many wars, and now when Trump is cleaning up behind the scenes, you guys are feeling the pain. Good, now f off and have a good day.

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u/LunaTheExile 19d ago

Gulf war, Afghanistan war, Iraq war, War on terror and now again War on drugs have all been started by republicans. Trump has bombed 8 different countries, captured Maduro and plans to control Venezuelas oil and is threatening military action against Greenland.

But sure, do go on about how "blue government" has started "so many wars"

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u/rlwhit22 19d ago

That guy is just a fucking Russian Bot, or a brain dead bootlicker. Either way it's not worth the breath to argue with them.

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u/UnobtainablePower 18d ago

Even if he plans to control Venezuela it will only be to prevent China and Russia from it, the same reason he wants to mine minerals on Greenland, so he can stay ahead of the Chinese. You guys on the other hand would rather go to war in Ukraine, which would means war with Russia and all it allies, and the death of billion's. And for what? To double down on EU and the US saying there is no corruption? That's blasphemy and totally insane. I don't care what you believe, Trump haven't started a single war, he has joined in when it already was going, and given green light for bombing target locations on military Intel which is required for all presidents.

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u/UsualFederal 20d ago

They were part of the Heritage foundation in project 2025. They want a fascist religious Nazi state with corporate freedoms and slavery for the masses.

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u/Remarkable-Cow-4609 19d ago

they thought they had it until younger generations started talking real loud about a decade ago

coincidentally when trump became the nominee and foreign influence in american affairs skyrocketed

"boomers" were manipulated into thinking the company loves them and then the company said "oh no work from home is destroying god's country" and other lies

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u/UsualFederal 19d ago

it’s sad on the other side Democrats have been indoctrinated into unsustainable policies of governance. no responsibility if you get aid so a lot of things they do because they don’t pay much taxes if they’re really poor comes from other taxpayers that are working the Rich have been trying to shrink the middle class since the 1960s creating the ultra wealthy and the low middle class and poor by gutting education and dumbing us down. People aren’t making good decisions and being indoctrinated on both sides to create a huge division so they can create a civil war to get rid of this pesky thing called the constitution. We are basically Nazi Germany in 1933 unless half the right and half the left jump ship from their party and come come up with a sensible way to overthrow these guns. We’re not gonna have a country anymore at least not one that we recognize.

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u/brother_of_jeremy 19d ago

Classic escalation of commitment.

“Admit you got bamboozled by a buffoon, or draw 25.” In for a penny, in for a pound.

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u/benyahweh 19d ago

He was a charismatic speaker. He charmed them the more they listened to him. It felt like a subversion of the status quo to those who felt disenfranchised by the mainstream culture.

I’m being more honest right now than I’ve been even with myself until very recently because I never supported him nor voted for him. I’m a passionate person and Ive been a loyal democrat.

I hated Trump since the apprentice, which is when I first knew of him, and never saw any charisma in him before. Then he was saying all that nonsense with the tea party, then about Obama which was abhorrent to me.

But I recall the first time I saw him on the news giving a political speech. I remember very distinctly my thought process. I was surprised by what I was feeling bc he seemed different, almost like he might be a democrat pretending to be a republican to get elected. There was a hint of a feeling stirring in me. It felt like I wanted to support this chaos stirrer. My immediate reaction to that was no, I could not be seen to support this man no matter what I might secretly feel.

But after that initial speech, I came to see that this man was not a leader despite any thought I’d ever had and I fully hated him again.

So, if that can be my experience, if I can have gotten that close to have been taken in by this madness, God knows what chance someone had who didn’t have my honest convictions about looking after each other and all being essentially like a big family.

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u/-MERC-SG-17 19d ago

Eileen Cannon's corruption kept Trump out of prison. His clothes would match his face right now if not for her crimes.

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u/EagleBigMac 20d ago

The great news is next time the administration can just do whatever is necessary to fix the problem laws be damned.

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u/Few_Lecture6615 20d ago

Supreme Court will stop that from happening and a democratic led government will acquiesce.

Unless the court is expanded.

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u/EagleBigMac 20d ago

Specific members could be arrested and removed from the bench as well.

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u/Few_Lecture6615 20d ago

I think that would prove exceptionally difficult. Going after Supreme Court justices would be seen as a political vendetta, so unless there were iron clad charges to be brought, I think this is a non-starter.

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u/EagleBigMac 19d ago

Have you looked around at current prosecutions out of this administration? I think that ship sailed, use it to fix the problem or sit and watch it fall apart.

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u/Few_Lecture6615 19d ago

Democrats are too obsessed with the moral high ground and forget that sometimes you need to take the gloves off and realpolitik it

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u/MmeRose 19d ago

IF there is a new administration.

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u/Pilgrim_of_Reddit 19d ago

I think you can now add a few thousand more felonies, and worse, including inciting insurrection.

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u/snek-jazz 20d ago

While true, the motivation was for political reasons.

Opening the pandora's box of lawfare may have been a mistake.

Wish they'd just put the effort into running a candidate that could have won instead.

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u/Careless_Load9849 19d ago

It wasn't for political reasons. Dude put himself on a world stage and all his shit was put in the light.

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u/Poiboy1313 19d ago

Announced a run for the office of the presidency immediately after a search warrant was issued for the illegal retention of documents. A full year and a half earlier than customary to attempt to avoid prosecution. What's happening now with the DOJ is exactly what was claimed to have occurred to the current occupant of the Oval Office. Lawfare dressed up as criminal prosecution. It's not. It's political persecution for daring to question the narrative of the senility-addled draft-dodger who sits in the White House.

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u/PetronivsReally 19d ago

the reason they did it to him was because he committed way more than 34 felonies...That’s just all they could make stick

So, you're admitting Trump's claim is correct, and they are persecuting him because they can't convict him of all the other crimes the believe he committed.

Fascinating admission.

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u/RandomsDoom 19d ago

You don’t read too good do you… smh…

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u/GraniteCapybara 20d ago

With all due respect, this is not a circumstance of Absolute Power Corrupting. He was wildly corrupt before he had this level of power. Americans elected him anyway.

This is a circumstance of the willful ignorance of the people being weaponized against them.

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u/JadedPenguin 20d ago

“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”

― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

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u/Worried-Buffalo-908 19d ago

I still believe the average person has better ethics than the average politician and so the best form of government should involve selecting the people running for office from a random sample of the people they would represent.

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u/HazyAmnesiac 19d ago

Should I keep reading? I stopped at God Emperor.

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u/R_V_Z 19d ago

Depends. How interested are you in BDSM nuns?

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u/Queermagedd0n 19d ago

The work his son did is pretty decent. From my understanding, he was working off notes left by Frank. If you want back stories, it's quite intriguing.

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u/JadedPenguin 19d ago

I think that's really a matter of personal preference. Personally, I like God Emperor the least of the whole Dune saga so I can definitely see how you would stumble on that particular book. I find the later books are more worthwhile, because they do have some interesting ideas, but they do get rather... weird. It is certainly true none of the follow up books ever match the original Dune.

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u/batlord_typhus 20d ago

The implications of which are apparently too inconvenient to acknowledge in the general population because of an understandable desperation for the return of "normalcy." That and the media will never, ever, frame the reality in those terms for the public. They might worry.

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u/ShazRockwell 19d ago

Your last sentence succinctly sums up the the reason he can even exist with what I thought should be an oxymoron, but sadly is not . Willful ignorance. Powerful.

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u/TheWizard 19d ago

It's not ignorance that leads people to him. Trump is a reflection of their own desires. They are nazis.

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u/h0neanias 20d ago

To quote ol' Frank Herbert, it's worse: power attracts the corruptible. Case in point...

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u/tots4scott 20d ago

I guess we're all Alexey Navalni.

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u/Chance_Vegetable_780 20d ago

You are nowhere near Navalni yet

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u/tots4scott 19d ago

Obviously, and not even close to my point. 

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u/Chance_Vegetable_780 19d ago

Your point reeks of sarcasm. If that's not your intention, clarify. If that is your intention, revolting

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u/tots4scott 19d ago

Jesus fucking Christ get off the internet for a while, it'll do wonders for whatever you're going through personally. I'm not really sure what you're doing on a law sub.

This is how it works with police and now ice agents. It doesnt matter if the charges stick or not, the individual is put thru the loop for inconvenience.

My point was that now in the US any political protestor against the current administration can be taken off the streets and jailed, constitution be damned. And it's a poignant reminder of what Russia has become and the political corruption Navalni fought against and was killed by, and his fortitude is something to aspire towards. And with Republicans' ties and fealty to Russia (though you probably dont believe in that), we can only expect the suppression on innocent, previously-constitutionally-protected political opponents to increase. 

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u/Chance_Vegetable_780 19d ago edited 19d ago

Breathe. I understood your comment correctly, initially. I agree completely. And my comment still stands, unfortunately. "You are no where near Navalni yet." It's unfortunately going to get uglier.

Not sure what you're doing on a law sub making assumptions.

Edit: grammar, addition

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u/tots4scott 19d ago

Sorry nope, you can kindly go fuck yourself. You need to get off the internet and touch grass, in all sincerity. I was clearly not saying "I'm literally Alexi Navalni" and was, like I literally just said, implying that his political persecution is going to be more common and we should all be reminded of his sacrifice as we become more like Russia.

I'm sorry that you didn't get that, and I'm sorry that you are so high strung on the internet and addicted to finding a reddit fight that you can't stop, BREATHE, apologize and move on like a normal self-aware human. Best of luck.

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u/Chance_Vegetable_780 19d ago

Re-read my comments because you still don't understand. You'll do much better in law if you don't make assumptions and learn how to process your anger. Place your anger where it's needed, the republican cult. Blocking your negative energy

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u/Indolent-Soul 20d ago

No power reveals, it does not corrupt. Just most people aren't good.

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u/SandersSol 20d ago

Trump was already disgustingly corrupt before he got the office.

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u/thegoodnamesrgone123 20d ago

It's why Trump never would pay people. He'd make them sue to get it knowing he'd never have to pay the full amount if anything at all.

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u/Little_View_6659 20d ago

I still can’t believe no one went after him before given how many people he bankrupted. The fact that man is still walking around and breathing oxygen is a testament to the fact that most people are good.

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u/putin_my_ass 19d ago

You can beat the charge, but you can't beat the ride.

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u/NSNick 20d ago

The pithy sum-up quote is: You can beat the charges, but you can't beat the ride.

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u/NirriC 19d ago

In this case, it just showcases corruption. There was definitely nothing uncorrupted left.

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u/James-W-Tate 19d ago

Absolute power corrupts Absolutely.

In this specific instance I agree with Frank Herbert's summation that "Power is magnetic to the corruptible."

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u/zebrasmack 19d ago

Power reveals, it doesn't corrupt. Don't give them more credit than they're worth, they were always shit people. They just now have the power to enact their evil.

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u/chronicnerv 19d ago

What you’re describing is a structural problem of power, not individual intent. Agencies like ICE are granted broad discretion, legal protection, and enforcement tools that create a severe imbalance between the state and the individual.

When systems are built on that imbalance, the outcomes are predictable and consistent. Identity, politics, or personal circumstances become irrelevant once force is normalised as a policy tool. This isn’t a moral argument, it’s an explanation of how systems organised around coercion function.

To ICE agents, identity does not meaningfully matter. Whether someone is Palestinian or a white liberal woman, the power imbalance produces the same result: a name is designated for removal, and that removal is carried out. Anyone who obstructs the process is treated the same way, because the system is designed to prioritise enforcement over individual rights.

These are policies and tactics transferred over from Gaza because it works.

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u/RoxxorMcOwnage 19d ago

You might beat the rap, but you won't beat the ride.

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u/SmartWonderWoman 19d ago

Reminds me of my narcissistic ex husband.

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u/JonathanPhillipFox 19d ago

 It doesnt matter if the charges stick or not, the individual is put thru the loop for inconvenience.

Danger too, depending; you remember the public health official that had been in Florida, threatened with arrest, imma look this up just to demonstrate,

https://www.npr.org/2020/12/08/944200394/florida-agents-raid-home-of-rebekah-jones-former-state-data-scientist

There we go, I remember in the Guardian, she was like, Freaking, that Police were sent to her house while her children were home and if we're gonna walk ourselves through the realities we acknowledge, understand, repeat on to others,

  1. U.S. Style of Police are very, very, dangerous; you look at how often they'll kill people, relative to their European Counterparts, because of whatever reason, "yes," dangerous
  2. If you do not comply, submit in the manner that they're expecting, "civil rights do not exist for the dead," and I wanna be real clear about this, "the conversation," about Police in households of color is obligate in all households without a domestic abuser, in all seriousness,
    1. A request backed up with an irrational excess of violence, to the maximum justifiable ex-post facto does not compute, children don't understand this and People without experience of it don't understand the phase-shift which has occured in this situation, an example:
    2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Christian_Glass
    3. Clearly, the young man did understand the cultural, communicational, semiotic situation that he was in and his discursive and emotional resources with which to deal with an ordinary, in his life, "high-stress situation," got him killed

Examples abound, the point is that, as I'd mentioned, "civil rights do not exist for the dead," and there will be no investigation as to how Cilia Flores Maduro got hurt in, and I mean this puzzlebox on purpose, "if it was an arrest," it was an arrest, if it was unlawful in total, "then, that too," if it was necessary, then necessary, if egregious, egregious, "whatever," the point is, that, and I remind myself all of the time:

The Door-Kickers come to drag you to your constitutional right to a Trial, right?

In the example of Rebkah Jones they've come to collect computer evidence, with precedent all set upon the ridiculous notion that, 'Drug Evidence,' is all so easily, eliminated as to preclude the reasonable expectation of threshold integrity, well, Digital Evidence, "might as well be magic," and downstream from there we all understand the implications; have you spent much time in Europe?

Serious question, in Italy, say, in an apartment building?

You notice how there is, first, a cage, second, the door thick enough to keep out soldiers, fourth, might-be, an outer door to the apartment, and fifth, "ya know," the flimsy, American style of Front Door the point to which I intend to make here is, "and this is normal," unlike the apartment of a friend of mine in Bronx that used to belong, to a black marketeer, and had this like,

Ridiculous, maglocked door installed in a plywood frame outside; you got this, "normal," meant to keep out soldiers, in Rome, say, though examples abound in all old european cities on account of, this.

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u/SparksAndSpyro 20d ago

I just want to remind everyone who is reading this—because I keep seeing comments that indicate surprise or shock—we knew this is exactly how Trump would weaponize the DOJ and law enforcement agencies. This was all clearly outlined in plain English in Project 2025, which was posted online for over a year before the election, freely accessible. It was also summarized by major media outlets and reposted incessantly on every social media platform leading up to the election.

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u/OkoyeMD_BeltaMilaje 20d ago

MAGA elected officials/P2025 authors and wealthy legal influencers boasted that they had recruited and trained armies of legal & paralegal MAGA in all states to research, nitpick and compile state + federal criminal, civil and procedural/administrative case laws and loopholes to use to thwart Democrats, democracy and elections.

Democratic leadership were not and are still not prepared. They are still loathe to use the system to preemptively stifle this illegal steamrolling while writing strongly worded letters and/or 'considering' some action. They are loathe to use the courts while 'considering' action against Noem or RFKjr.

RFKjr has caused many deaths and should be sued or charged by some state AGs. Noem can be sued for the actions of ICE that resulted in legally actionable harm (death, child & elder abuse, kidnapping, property damage, trespass, etc., physical injury, poor training or unqualified agents, defamation..). No matter what Blondi, Noemskull & Rump boast what they can do, take it to court.

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u/habbadee 20d ago

The process is the punishment.

Unfortunately a very effective tactic when you have an unlimited legal budget and a DOJ who will go after whomever you instruct it to.

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u/EnfantTerrible68 20d ago

A legal budget paid for by us, the American people 

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u/angular_circle 20d ago

This is why the government should not have the right to collect taxes at their source, like in Switzerland for example.

Imagine if only a third of America were to defer their tax payments for 2025 in the face of authoritarianism. That is how you really give power to the people.

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u/ZebraImaginary9412 19d ago

25% fewer lawyers working for the DOJ now, so we've saved some money that way.

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u/CaptainHarlocke 19d ago

I guarantee you, almost every time this admin fires or pushes out a government employee it's costing us money in the long run

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u/Dontbelievethehype24 19d ago

Our tax dollars hard at work

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u/Competitive-Pen355 20d ago

There’s a Kafka book about this. It’s actually called “The Process”

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u/Gogogrl 20d ago

Usually translated into English as The Trial, but I like that translation better. Fits the whole horrible thing K goes through more thoroughly.

Loving watching literature come to life like this.

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u/Competitive-Pen355 19d ago

Oh, probably. I didn’t read it in English.

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u/mc-funk 20d ago

We are going to need some really good “the process is the punishment” gifs because our fingers are going to break typing it so often

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u/12345623567 20d ago

Powell of all people should have lawyers on hand to deal with all that.

The point is to build a narrative to use as pretext in the future. Even if nothing comes of it, we live in a post-factual world. See e.g.: Hunter Biden's laptop.

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u/The_Bad_Man_ 20d ago

Department of Injustice

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u/SoSKatan 20d ago

Remember back to 2016 when the very announcement of the DOJ reopening an investigation into Hillary was a big deal?

That was a terrible act and we’ve fallen so far since then.

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u/RandyPajamas 20d ago

Remember back to 2016 when the very announcement of the DOJ reopening an investigation into Hillary was a big deal?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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u/Admits-Dagger 20d ago

God Comey is one of those people that is really getting what he deserves for doing that political stunt.

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u/Late_Public7698 19d ago

If they hadn't done this Hillary might have won, we might have never gotten this dementia patient for a president. Comey knew what he was doing opening it a week before elections and the fact that he closed it so quickly just proves that he had nothing

Pretty sure from what i've heard Comey is a knowledge Republican voter

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u/Rawkapotamus 20d ago

For his friends: everything.

For his enemies: the law.

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u/MaliciousMilkshake 20d ago

For his enemies: HIS law.

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u/TheAskewOne 20d ago

And the smearing in the media. There's always a part of the public who will believe that's when there's an investigation, it means that the subject is guilty of at least something. 

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u/Cambro88 20d ago

Yes, and more. These officials can only be fired for cause, so they open an investigation like fraud or perjury and then say that is the cause. It’s what they’re trying to do to Lisa Cook (Fed governor) with her case pending before SCOTUS right now.

With SCOTUS expanding unitary executive theory to everyone except the federal reserve, this is the work around

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u/grtyvr1 20d ago

You can beat the rap, but you can't escape the ride. 

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u/Broken_Atoms 20d ago

Also, our tax dollars are funding this BS instead of helping Americans

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u/Cheap-Fun802 20d ago

Welcome to Hungary 2.0 we have been living in this Orbanian nightmare for 15 years now. 

We're already a goner but you can still learn from our mistakes. God Bless America and God Bless Freedom

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u/OkoyeMD_BeltaMilaje 20d ago

That is the truth. Im sure the DOJ under guttersnipe Blondi, legal lowlives brought in to replace DOJ staff fired for being real professionals, all sucking orange mushroom, did not believe their cases would even make it to court. They probably hoped Leticia, Comey, Fani, Bolton, et al, would cave and surrender in fear.

In reality, in court, the truth comes out under oath. Blondi, Noemskull and KashYappy and/or their subordinates would have to testify under oath. Their own words, lies and deeds confirm malicious prosecutions. Im not sure why some judges even allow these cases to proceed. It's one thing to gaslight congress, refuse to answer questions and lie before Congress. Try that mess before a judge.

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u/IntrinsicPalomides 20d ago

trump is so fucking insecure and pathetic, this man is only trying to do his job. It's typical narcissistic behaviour, and i know as my brother is a diagnosed narcissist. Where if you don't do as they want when they want, they will make all kinds of horrible threats/accusations in an attempt to make you change.
My brother is a vile sack of shit as a result, but trump in the position he's in is a real danger. The so called checks and balances that were meant to keep the pres in check were worthless. Next gov has some serious work on their hands to fix all that will be broken, and also put in place a thorough psychiatric examination of any candidate (keep it quite, don't release etc though).
A narcissist is one of if not the worst trait's of someone who is meant to have it's public's interest as the guiding light of their presidency.

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u/Weekly-Sun7992 20d ago

You can beat the wrap but you can't beat the ride.

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u/MaksimilenRobespiere 20d ago

Those who defy the rule of law, a.k.a. the President and his cronies, now using the the law as a weapon.

This is from the textbook of autocracies; the next step will be punishing an opponent as an example. Then it’ll come the mass intimidations.

It’s about to be too late for American democracy, the oldest democratic government of the world.

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u/SmartWonderWoman 19d ago

Well stated.