Fuck his walls.
Fuck his borders.
We won't take
His fucking orders.

Link fix.

Fired by a perjurer.

thx phoebe

Pretty interesting, eh?

And this after he'd met with Trump and been assured the job was his to keep. Must be Bannon and his Fear of a Brown Planet.

@6 That is a silly comment, but par for the course around here: since when does being brown mean you're automatically good? Only in the lobotomized intersectional mind. He may have been doing some good things with the case mentioned here, but he was also doing some bad things like issuing subpoenas to get commenters' private data after they were outlandishly critical of various judges and decisions (http://reason.com/blog/2015/06/19/govern…). Yeah: if people here said outrageous things, he might be issuing subpoenas for Stranger commenters' information, too.

@7 what are you talking about? Comment #6 didn't say or imply he was good because he's brown, or anything about him being good at all. It said Bannon prefers white people.

'Only in the lobotomized intersectional mind.' HUH? SPECIAL snowflakes like @7 need no actual reasoning. Their 'ColorVision" tells them all they need to know, and fuck facts or critical thinking. Just like Drumpf! Reason.com is a Libertarian site, with all the pre-loaded biases one could expect. Time to join the real world, snowflake.

We serve a God who sits high and looks low. God just opened His arms of justice to position Attorney Bharara to 'drain th swamp' on Godly terms, and when it's over the whole White House connections will be drowned and in prison! Everyone connected with Trump will be dumped and Attorney Bharara will be the lead prosecutor. This saga continues to unfold...just watch Rachel Maddox on MSNBC

I wonder if any of these racist sacks of shit play fantasy football? Set up a team with nothing but the master race and see how well you do. You're going to have to pass on even selecting a defense among basically every other position. Also, today, racist sacks of shit, I hope you fill out all your brackets filled with teams made up of only the master race. Go for it, fucks!

Let's say Bharara was fired because the Trump team wanted to squelch any possibility of a criminal investigation of the Trump Organization (and hence, Trump) on Federal charges. Can a state district attorney pursue the same charges or is (s)he pre-empted by the DOJ?

Why is this even an issue? Presidents have the prerogative to fire US attorneys. The Trump administration did it very rudely of course, but it's hardly a scandal. Move on. I believe there are more pressing Trump anxieties to attend to.

@13 It's an issue precisely because Bharara's district is big on prosecuting corporate malfeasance and political corruption and the Trump Organization is headquartered in it. It's an issue because during the transition, Trump made personal assurances to Bharara that he was staying on. So, what changed? Did Trump get wind of an investigation implicating him? The suspicion is that all 46 US Attorneys were summarily dismissed, clear out your desk by end of day, precisely to cut off whatever Preet was up to without making it obvious that it was all about him. It's still pretty obvious, though.

@14: Be that as it may, it's not one of the top issues affecting this country and the world. There is no authority to rehire Preet.

@14 nails it precisely… All the other attorneys were fired so that no one would notice (less at least) that Preet was fired

I know, I try not to be snarky but it's like Trump has been a bull in the china shop and I feel that tending to the broken cut crystal takes precedence over the broken Haviland china.

Raindrop, you're correct that U.S. Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President, and they all routinely submit their resignations when there's a change of administration. But those resignations usually aren't taken up unless and until there's a replacement. Sid Lezak in Portland was U.S. Attorney in Portland for twenty years, under five Presidents from both parties. Firing Bharara is an issue because it demonstrates that a promise by Trump has the half-life of a goose fart on a muggy day, as John Fahey would say. The Times piece this morning said that Trump had promised Bharara the job because he was trying to make nice with Charles Schumer, and now doesn't feel like doing that. Another Trump aide mentioned in the article noted that Sean Hannity had called for his sacking because the Bharara's office was investigating Fox News for securities law violations (they never bothered to tell their shareholders about the millions they were paying to settle the sexual harassment suits against Roger Ailes - shit, they never even told the audit committee). Take your pick of theories, but it's evidence of instability that's not to be sniffed at.

Bharara also rolled up a Russian spy network, much to the displeasure of Comrade Pooty-Poot. Investigating white collar crime? Busting Russian spies? Being begged to look into violations of the Emoluments Clause (last Wednesday)? The guy was a bird on a wire. The question is, will Bannon be able to find someone stupid and mendacious enough to be the puppet in that role, or will they just leave the position vacant as a warning to others?

Why cry over this? Dude is gone. Trump supposedly made a promise? And broke it?? So what's new about that? He, (PB), is just doing what he does, make a lot of noise. If you're mad that Trump broke his word (proof?). Then don't get mad when Trump keeps his word. And follows up on any of his campaign promises. PB is a political animal. Him doing what he did is most likely, him laying the ground work for a Rudy Giuliani move. Like RG before him. PB prosecuted Wall Street and Organized crime,etc. Both from the same exact office.

So now that PB has "Made His Stand". He'll join a Prestigious law firm for a whole lot of money. While he considers his "Future". Could it be mayor of NYC? If not, then Senator, or Congress.

You know it is. He's got to make it look good to get elected.

@12, no, he can't go do those investigations in another government office. The office he was just fired from was doing the investigations; they'll either keep doing them or not.

I don't think the guy was being a prima donna; Slog has made him appear to be with that stupid headline.

In every job there is a learning curve. It takes time to find your feet. Usually, large employers will stagger turnover, to allow senior staff to educate their replacements.

By dumping all federal prosecutors at once, Trump makes the same mistake Stalin made when he purged his military brass. Everything's fine, unless someone declares a war while your new generals are still very green.

What I mean is, when it comes to organized crime (and even petty crime, for that matter), Trump has declared a field day. So too with government corruption on all levels. There has never been a better time to bribe a civil servant or a politician. Now is the best possible time for any organized crime outfit to engage in widespread criminal misconduct, as all of the nation's prosecutors are now so inexperienced, none of them have any idea what the fuck they are doing.

The people who did know what the fuck they were doing have all been shown the door.

Fox, meet henhouse.

Trump to no-name government lawyer no one has ever heard of.

"You're fired".

Lots of moral victories going on for liberals, right? Fired is fired.

What I'm about to say astonishes even myslf-- yes, I'm going to defend Trump; sort of. Trump didn't really single out Preet Bharara, he had Jeff Sessions order a blanket termination of 46 U.S. Attorneys. I understand that the normal procedure for dismissing a federal prosecutor involves having a ready replacement, which apparently the Trump DOJ lacks for all 46 of the prosecutors who were sacked, but this doesn't really smack of shenanigans. It is simply another instance of Trump's sloppy and chaotic transition.

As for Preet Bharara, I say good riddance. He's an obnoxious, grandstanding publicity whore from the corporate wing of the Democratic Party. He's basically a center-left version of Giuliani or Christie; he gets tough on crime when everyone is paying attention, but when it's safe he turns a blind eye to any nefarious acts committed by his chums. Any Wall Street worthy or big developer connected to Bharara's old boss, Chuck Schumer, needn't worry about Preet's prosecutorial powers, because he won't exercise it on them. But if he doesn't like your politics, you aren't safe no matter how innocent you are; just ask Bill DeBlasio, who Bharara was targeting for alleged violations of campaign finance law that appear to have absolutely no factual basis.