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More resignations of federal prosecutors are expected at the US Attorney’s Office in Minnesota amid ongoing frustration over the Trump administration’s response to the fatal shooting of Renée Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.

“I have heard there may be more people leaving, people I would consider senior and respected career prosecutors,” said Anders Folk, a former acting US attorney in Minnesota, who left the office in 2021 to work for the Justice Department in Washington, DC, under former President Biden.

Minnesota Federal Defender Katherian Roe, in a staffwide email obtained by the Sahan Journal, also wrote that “more resignations are anticipated” at the US Attorney’s Office. “It’s a sign that something is not right” there, added Folk, who is still in touch with colleagues in the office and is now running for Hennepin County Attorney.

Already this week, at least five federal prosecutors in Minnesota announced their resignations. Among them was the office’s second-in-command, Joseph Thompson, who was overseeing the welfare fraud investigation involving Somali immigrants that President Trump used as a pretext to send his immigration force to Minneapolis.

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[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 7 points 4 hours ago

Federal prosecutor basically just means hired goon at this point.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 18 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

They'll just replace them with MAGA loyalists, and get far worse.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Replacing prosecutors is going to be harder than just giving any idiot who applies tactical gear and letting them do whatever they want.

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 12 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

No, it truly isn't. They don't care even about the illusion of competancy.

They literally illegally gave technofascists surveillance execs commissioned high ranking positions in the U.S. military with zero experience or training just because they got paid. They gave vibe coder teenagers full access to US social security. They put an alcoholic white supremecist in charge of the whole military.

They will replace prosecutors with maga loyalists that maybe completed 1 year or law school and those prosecutors will do a horrible job (just like almost every person they installed in the past decade) but the important part is that when the time comes for the "pro quo", they do their part and become yes men.

And yet again, the democrats will, with corporate cum still on their lips, do nothing, even symbolic, as is tradition, even when they had the power to do something.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 7 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

A prosecutor has to successfully convince judges and juries. Giving that job to any idiot that applies will not result in successful judgements.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

^^ This.

They can't replace prosecutors with dumbfuck loyalist and expect to have successful prosecutions.

They're already trying this with Alina Habba, and that experiment is a disaster on such a scale that it would be Frontline news... Were it not for the news about the first shots of a civil war, or the president being a human-trafficking pedophile, or an unwarranted military action in Venezuela, or the disinitigration of NATO over Greenland...

[–] placebo@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

It's so cute seeing Americans facing a wannabe dictator for the first time. Meritocracy never works in systems like the one Trump is building. It'll take time, but they'll get to the point where everyone in the system (including judges) will be working for the system. I don't think people realize how small the window of opportunity to stop this is. It's been done so many times by so many people - the only interesting thing about all what's happening is that it's happening in the US.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Have you NOT been paying attention? They are already doing it. Sure, they are getting pushback on some of their prosecutors, but the next objective is to replace the judges, too, who won't push back, and will enthusiastically assist MAGA prosecutors into exploiting the system to punish political enemies.

Were only in the early steps. Just like AI, they will learn from their mistakes, and get "better."

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

Ah, but if the compent prosecutors stayed in place and acted incompetently that would prevent it?

Either way they are left with incompetent prosecutors, and this way also sends a message and warning to everyone, and helps embolden further resistance.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

A lot of the time a prosecutor doesn't have to be successful in order to fulfil their role, if no one is getting prosecuted for anything at a federal level... that works for these criminals too. Disrupt their enemies, ignore their allies, profit.

[–] saimen@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

They don't care. They only want "their people" not to be prosecuted.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

These persecutors were fired for refusing to prosecute someone.

[–] solidheron@sh.itjust.works 4 points 16 hours ago

they could do that but ahh I doubt they would be efficient or effective. like they could go after political enemies but they would get bogged down doing the simplest thing and can probably waste weeks of work because they do simple errors. I get it they can still make make people's lives worse for political reasons

[–] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Americans don't fight for what they believe in. They quit and hide.

Pathetic.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Mass resignations sounds like people standing up for what they believe in.

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