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Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> Targets <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/WilmerHale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WilmerHale</span></a>, Citing <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/LawFirm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LawFirm</span></a>’s Connection to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RobertMueller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RobertMueller</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Mueller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mueller</span></a>, who worked at WilmerHale before retiring in 2021, had investigated the Trump campaign’s ties to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> during Trump’s first term.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/RevengePolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RevengePolitics</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MafiaState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MafiaState</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/trump-wilmerhale-law-firm-mueller.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=p&amp;pvid=EB968B02-59E6-44C9-B0A7-4057762D4A42" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/poli</span><span class="invisible">tics/trump-wilmerhale-law-firm-mueller.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare&amp;sgrp=p&amp;pvid=EB968B02-59E6-44C9-B0A7-4057762D4A42</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>“That guidance, which is not legally binding, is significant in an administration that has vowed to upend the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> &amp; the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a>, which <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> &amp; his allies have accused of mistreating him.</p><p>“…<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Legal</span></a> experts say the guidance could erode guardrails that have traditionally given the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a> Department a degree of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/independence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>independence</span></a> from the White House that does not exist for other executive branch agencies.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/impartiality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>impartiality</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpCoup</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> White House says it<br>can talk to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a> Dept on <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/criminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>criminal</span></a> cases</p><p>“...explicitly saying the president &amp; vice president &amp; their top lawyers can discuss ongoing criminal &amp; civil cases with the attorney general &amp; her deputies, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/impartiality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>impartiality</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TrumpCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpCoup</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/09/trump-justice-department-guidance-memo/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/national-se</span><span class="invisible">curity/2025/02/09/trump-justice-department-guidance-memo/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MikeJohnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MikeJohnson</span></a> vowed to use House oversight powers while cutting funds in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> appropriations process &amp; taking other unspecified <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/legislative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>legislative</span></a> measures.<br>
“We’re going to do everything we can, everything within our scope of our responsibility in the Congress, to address it appropriately,” Johnson said at his weekly news conference afterward.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/obstruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>obstruction</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HouseRepublicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HouseRepublicans</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/CultOfPersonality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CultOfPersonality</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Autocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>After a NY jury deemed <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/felon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>felon</span></a> last week, his staunchest supporters are focusing on what they allege is a weaponized <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> sys by ramping up <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/House" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>House</span></a> investigations &amp; *stalling* [ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/obstruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>obstruction</span></a> ] regular business in the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Democratic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democratic</span></a>-led <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Senate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Senate</span></a>.<br>
<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/House" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>House</span></a> Spkr <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MikeJohnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MikeJohnson</span></a> broadly outlined a “3-pronged approach” Tues during a weekly conference on how the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> majority can <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/target" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>target</span></a> the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NewYork</span></a> &amp; other jurisdictions for investigating Trump.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> plans aggressive *weaponization* [ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/projection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>projection</span></a> ] *investigations* [ <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> ] in wake of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conviction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conviction</span></a><br>
<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/House" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>House</span></a> Spkr <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MikeJohnson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MikeJohnson</span></a> vowed to use oversight powers &amp; other measures to target jurisdictions pursuing prosecutions of Trump.

<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Congress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Congress</span></a> doubled down on their defense of Trump after his conviction on 34 counts related to falsifying business records.
<br><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/obstruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>obstruction</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/04/gop-trump-house-weaponization-investigations/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/politics/20</span><span class="invisible">24/06/04/gop-trump-house-weaponization-investigations/</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>“That <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ConspiracyTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ConspiracyTheory</span></a> is an attack on the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/judicial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>judicial</span></a> process itself,” <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MerrickGarland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MerrickGarland</span></a> said, adding that there has been an increase in “baseless &amp; extremely dangerous falsehoods” being spread against <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FBI</span></a> agents &amp; prosecutors.</p><p>“These repeated attacks on the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a> Dept are unprecedented &amp; they are unfounded,” <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Garland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Garland</span></a> said. “These attacks have not, &amp; they will not, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/influence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>influence</span></a> our decision-making.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HouseRepublicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HouseRepublicans</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/StochasticTerrorism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StochasticTerrorism</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Garland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Garland</span></a> also rebutted <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a>’ criticism of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>’s <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/conviction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conviction</span></a> last week in NY state court on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records…. Trump &amp; his <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> allies have falsely claimed that <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/state" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>state</span></a> prosecutors brought the case at the urging of the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> admin &amp; the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a>, even though <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/federal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>federal</span></a> prosecutors had declined to pursue the matter.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HouseRepublicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HouseRepublicans</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>“Certain members of this Cmte &amp; the Oversight Cmte are seeking <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/contempt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contempt</span></a> as a means of obtaining — for no legitimate purpose — sensitive <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> enforcement information that could harm the integrity of future investigations,” <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MerrickGarland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MerrickGarland</span></a> told *lawmakers* in his opening remarks at the hearing. “This effort is only the most recent in a long line of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/attacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>attacks</span></a> on the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Justice</span></a> Department’s work.”</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HouseRepublicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HouseRepublicans</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment</span></a></p>
Nonilex<p>‘I will not be intimidated’: <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Garland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Garland</span></a> rebuts <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/contempt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contempt</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/threats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>threats</span></a> from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HouseRepublicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HouseRepublicans</span></a></p><p>AG <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MerrickGarland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MerrickGarland</span></a> used an appearance on Capitol Hill on Tues to forcefully defend the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DOJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DOJ</span></a> against “repeated attacks” from <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Republican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republican</span></a> *lawmakers* that have undermined investigations &amp; put federal employees in <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/harm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>harm</span></a>’s way.</p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/06/04/merrick-garland-testimony-judiciary-fbi-trump/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">washingtonpost.com/national-se</span><span class="invisible">curity/2024/06/04/merrick-garland-testimony-judiciary-fbi-trump/</span></a></p>