Adams’s Lead Prosecutor Quits Defiantly: ‘It Was Never Going to Be Me’
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Hagan Scotten told Justice Department officials that he would not be party to a political prosecution. He was the latest in a succession of federal prosecutors to quit.
    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catOPEnglish
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      27 days ago

      Here’s from Hagen Scotten’s resignation letter:

      I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials, in this way. If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.

      Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York.

      I would say it’s fair to describe that as “defiantly.”

      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
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        27 days ago

        A “political prosecution” implies to people who only read headlines that he resigning because the prosecution is politically motivated, not that politics is interfering with it.