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'Not a snowball's chance': Lawyer issues grave warning about Trump's 'end running'

President Donald Trump's administration has no plans of slowing down its assault on the courts, according to one lawyer.

Andrew Weissmann, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, joined The Bulwark's Sarah Longwell on the podcast, "George Conway Explains It All (To Sarah Longwell)," on Thursday to discuss Trump's legal approach to deploying National Guard troops on the streets and enforcing immigration laws.

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DOJ's 'disingenuous malarkey' proves Trump is 'deathly afraid': ex-prosecutor

Judge Paul Englemeyer issued a blistering ruling against President Donald Trump's administration on Monday, but explained that he refused to become the patsy.

Englemeyer turned down the demand to release the grand jury information around Jeffrey Epstein's case. He wrote that there was essentially nothing new in the information, and the Justice Department's effort to release the information was "disingenuous."

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'Never happened': Expert gobsmacked by judges' drastic moves to block MAGA prosecutors

Former Justice Department lawyer Andrew Weissmann expressed his astonishment on MSNBC's "Deadline: White House" Wednesday over the situation unfolding in district courts, where judges are being forced to take the extremely unusual step of vetoing President Donald Trump's interim U.S. attorneys, including his former defense lawyer Alina Habba in New Jersey.

This follows a move by Attorney General Pam Bondi to step in and remove the federal prosecutor that a bipartisan group of district judges named in Habba's place.

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Trump is about to make a huge mistake going after Jack Smith: ex-DOJ official

A former Department of Justice official smiled and predicted calamity for Donald Trump over a report that an investigation into special counsel Jack Smith is ramping up.

Appearing on MSNBC's "The Weekend," Andrew Weissmann was asked about an investigation into whether Smith violated the Hatch Act when he investigated Donald Trump's crimes against the state that included an attempt to lead an insurrection and stealing government documents and hoarding them in a bathroom at Mar-a-Lago.

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Ex-DOJ lawyer calls out 'greatest sign' Epstein scandal is about to blow up for Trump

Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann said President Donald Trump’s own behavior may be the biggest indicator that the Jeffrey Epstein allegations could be true.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, Weissmann addressed the Wall Street Journal's new bombshell report that Attorney General Pam Bondi told Trump in May that he was in the Epstein files.

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DOJ's new move raises 'huge red flags' — and ‘could blow up in their face’: Legal expert

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche met for a second day with Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, and a long-time prosecutor and former general counsel at the FBI is warning it could all "blow up in their face."

MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace noted on her Friday show that she can't understand why Blanche would ignore the career prosecutors who have been steeped in the case for years and are aware of the details.

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Ex-prosecutor loves judge's smackdown of Trump: Lets 'people connect the dots'

A federal judge accused the president of enacting an executive order he declared an "unconstitutional abuse of Donald Trump's power." One of the lawyers targeted in the order is celebrating the ruling, saying he "loves" the judge's smackdown.

Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Friday as the news broke, former partner Andrew Weissmann smiled as he spoke about the judge's decision to stop the Trump order targeting the law firm Jenner & Block. Weissmann worked for the firm until 2011. More recently, Weissmann worked as one of the prosecutors on special counsel Robert Mueller's team investigating Trump and Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign.

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'Deeply disturbing': Legal expert blasts conservative justices' 'shocking' new remarks

Law professor and former Justice Department official Andrew Weissmann took issue with two Supreme Court justices while listening to oral arguments on Thursday.

Before the court was a nationwide injunction from a lower court that paused President Donald Trump's executive order, which redefined who qualifies for birthright citizenship in the United States.

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