A Donald Trump administration DOJ official has bungled a recent series of events, according to a conservative legal scholar.
Ed Whelan, who has a lengthy credentials list as a conservative legal scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and as a supporter of President Donald Trump's policies, recently signaled he is all for the rebellion against Trump's Justice Department that exploded this week at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York as droves of federal prosecutors resigned rather than carry out top DOJ official Emil Bove's order to dismiss charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
On Saturday, Whelan went as far as to say that Bove "could not have mishandled this matter worse if he had tried."
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"Among other things: If he had provided no reasons or even a generic 'in the public interest' reason in his Feb. 10 directive, Sassoon could have filed the motion to dismiss. Instead he provided bad reasons that she could not accept," Whelan wrote over the weekend. "He leaked the Feb. 10 directive no later than Feb. 11. To what good end?" He added, "He leaked his Feb. 13 reply before Sassoon's letter became public, thus ensuring that it would. Why?"
Whelan went on to say that Bove "asserts in his Feb. 13 reply that the prosecution of Adams was 'politically motivated.' But that assertion is a huge leap from his assessment three days earlier, and he provides nothing to support that leap. He doesn't even engage Sassoon's points."
"His claim in his Feb. 13 reply that Sassoon violated her oath is ridiculous... His claim in his Feb. 13 reply that executive-branch officials have some sort of obligation not 'to interpret the Constitution in a manner inconsistent with the **policies**' of the Trump administration is absurd (and irrelevant)."
He then concluded, "By his follies, he has ensured that Judge Dale Ho will take a deep look at the deal with Eric Adams that underlies the dismissal request. He may even be invited to testify."
