The White House suddenly fired two long-time professional prosecutors, a sudden sack of two long-time professional prosecutors, a time-honored exercise of presidential power.
The sudden dismissal of prosecutors in Los Angeles and Memphis in recent days was a brief email notice, with no reason to take any action, rather than representing the president himself.
The Deportees reflect the more active efforts of the White House, bringing us deeper efforts in the U.S. attorney’s offices across the country, far from decades of practice. While the Department of Justice’s senior political appointments are commonplace, the transition from government to administration has been recalled by no one who recalls any similar dismissals to American assistant lawyers.
A spokesperson for the Justice Department declined to comment.
Asked whether the deportees and others have been released in a similar way, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “The White House coordinated with the Justice Department and has dismissed more than 50 U.S. lawyers and representatives over the past few weeks.”
“The American people deserve a branch of justice filled with honest arbitrators who want to protect democracy rather than subvert democratic laws,” she added, without explaining either of the two fired prosecutors. Prosecutors are part of the administration, not the judiciary.
During the campaign, Mr. Trump vowed to significantly reshape the ranks of professional Justice officials, angry at his ties to Russia during his first term in the campaign and four criminal prosecutions between his presidency.
His allies and advisers accepted the “unified implementation theory” and its supporters believed that the president had the sole control of the executive branch. His supporters talk openly about grabbing the pocket of independence in the executive branch. The Justice Department has a tradition of independence in the post-Watergate and is backed by civil servant laws, which for decades have been exempted from brief dismissals from political leaders.
The new government has actively tried to remove the upper level of professional lawyers at the Ministry of Justice headquarters. Some of these dismissals may end up being the subject of the lawsuit, but even senior department officials appointed by Trump have conducted the firing.
Mr. Trump’s team has been sifting people across the administration, raising a series of questions aimed at testing loyalty to the president and his worldview, including his false claims about his winning of the 2020 election.
Both prosecutors have served as professional officials of the Ministry of Justice for many years.
A prosecutor Adam Schleifer sat on his computer in Los Angeles Friday morning to conduct a case against Farburg founder Andrew Wiederhorn, two people familiar with their anonymous fear of initiating retribution, said two people familiar with the matter. Mr Wiederhorn is fighting against telegraph fraud and other criminal charges related to his company.
One of the people said he received an email from Saurabh Sharma, a White House official, saying he had been fired. There is no reason to be cited.
People said, shocked and confused by the words, and Mr. Schlever asked the supervisor if there was some sort of scam. He soon discovered that his work phone had been reset and he could no longer use his office equipment.
Mr. Schleifer, who works in the corporate and securities fraud strike forces, has spent years working in the Fatburger fraud case, and his colleagues suspect it may have played a role in his sack.
Current and former colleagues describe Mr. Schleifer as an accomplished, fair prosecutor.
“Adam is a very smart, hardworking, impartial prosecutor,” said retired federal prosecutor Consuelo S. Woodhead. “Men are honest. He is the kind of prosecutor he wants in the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
During the 2020 campaign cycle, he served as a Democrat in Congress in New York. During that time, he occasionally went to social media to accuse Mr. Trump of defaming the rule of law.
Still, he returned to the Justice Department at the end of the first Trump administration before Mr. Trump resigned. But Trump’s White House allies amplified the social media posts last week as Mr. Schlever found himself fired.
An hour before he received the termination email, the far-right influencer Laura Loomer posted information about Mr. Schleiff on social media, calling him “Biden Reservation” and referring to his five-year-old news, praising his Adam B. Schiff, now a Democratic senator in California and criticizing Mr. Trump.
The two said many of Mr. Schleiffer’s colleagues were concerned about what his sack showed to the Department of Justice’s tradition of independence and to the independence of various lawyers’ offices in the United States.
A day before the sacking of a professional attorney Reagan Fondren in Memphis, he received an email saying she had been terminated, according to people in her office that there was an incident in her office in which the matter was discussed publicly. Like Mr. Schleifer, she had no reason. At the time, Ms. Fondren was acting as an American lawyer, which was not uncommon in the early days of the new presidential administration.
Mr. Schleifer’s sack was earlier reported by the Los Angeles Times and Ms. Fondren.
Although it is not uncommon for proactive U.S. lawyers to lose the position once a new administration chooses a permanent successor, professional officials like Ms. Fondren usually return to her regular prosecutor position. However, in this case, she was fired by the White House.
