Donald Trump's DOJ isn't just facing its prosecutions of Letitia James and James Comey being thrown out; it's also facing its attorneys being disbarred, according to a former Watergate prosecutor.
On Sunday, Nick Akerman, a former assistant special Watergate prosecutor and former assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York, suggested that the "death knell" to the James and Comey cases could be found in a recent decision in favor of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant who lived in the U.S. legally with a work permit and was erroneously deported to El Salvador.
Akerman pointed out that the Abrego Garcia decision might give James and Comey the ammunition they need to beat their cases for "vindictive prosecution," but there's more to the story. Because according to the attorney, the DOJ lawyers who pushed these cases could actually face "severe consequences," including disbarment.
"The ultimate outcome of these hearings is not just the dismissal of unfounded indictments ordered by Trump for vindictive political retribution," Akerman wrote. "For the lawyers who take part in Trump’s revenge tour, the consequences could be quite severe — induction into the Rudy Giuliani hall of shame for disbarred former lawyers who did Trump’s illegal bidding."
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