Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Ms. Good’s vehicle, but Trump administration leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have departed, leaving the Minnesota U.S. attorney’s office in turmoil.

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    If I got that phone call, I would just say “eat a dick” and hang up. What are you gonna do? Tell everyone you tried to prevent justice?

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      If I got that call, I would say, “I understand,” and then hang up.

      Then am we go on national to national news and tell them to “eat a dick“ well I told the world what they asked me to do.

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        No, no, the better thing is apparently to quit and do nothing. They ALL keep doing it.

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              Yeah, that’s the point. MAGA loyalists are mediocre lawyers at best, and without exception they end up costing the regime far more than they win.

              For example, when the actual Virginia AG quit rather than prosecute James Comey and Letitia James as political retribution, the replacement was so bad that the situation ended up getting both cases thrown out and the replacement MAGA loyalist too. It was a total fail for the regime.

              So more power to these guys, I say. I can’t think of a better way for these prosecutors to shoot the regime in the foot than to walk out and take their expertise with them. The replacement hacks in general do not win, and just the walkout alone will likely stymie anything else the regime wants to do with it, like investigate Renee Good’s wife.

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            And nothing else, like go public with exactly what you were asked and who? Just quit?

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      I mean, it’s great that they left their posts to protect their own integrity. Bravo.

      Where is the fight though? Why aren’t these people going out and telling the world that this administration is corrupting the rule of law?

      They have the information. They can tell the world exactly what they’re doing over there. They’ve seen it. Yet none of them come forward.

      For an administration like this to succeed in what they’re doing it also takes a massive lack of action from those that could stop it or speak out against it.

      All I see are cowards interested in themselves. If they really wanted to have any integrity they would be in front of the cameras, together, telling the whole world exactly what happened.

      But they’re not.

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        I think the very existence of this article is because of exactly what you’re saying they’re not doing. Just because they don’t go in the talk show circuit and try to make a name for themselves doesn’t mean that they aren’t quietly working with reporters to unravel this case in the background

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          That’s a very valid point.

          I would reply though that the article is quite vague on specifics.

          They could be providing verbal testimony to exactly what happened and how it happened. This piece feels like it’s vague enough for the administration to just outright deny.

          If they, as a group, stood together and said “this is exactly what we saw and this is why it is terrifying” it would have far more weight than an article in a newspaper, even if it is the NYT.

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        They’re career civil servants. They understand how to make change on small significant ways that are not all about the limelight. They are the opposite of politicians.

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          I get that. It does make sense. Do you know how exactly they are trying to affevt change then? Do you believe they’re working behind the scenes? Just wondering if that’s an assumption or you know something.

          It’s a gross injustice. The administration is basically subverting the rule of law and these people know that. Every US citizen should be aware of what they are doing. It’s the behaviour of an authoritarian regime, not a democracy.

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        Yeah, much better to say nothing and let them keep doing that to all the brown people because they’re not as important as the whites

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      Normally stuff like spent bullets, comparing marks on them with the shooter’s gun, showing that the bullet holes in the car came from the direction of the shooter, and not from some other cop. Really basic forensic evidence to make it clear that there wasn’t another shooter off-camera.

      They chose to discard that evidence