Here's the (very brief) email that led to that late Jan. 3 call discussed in earlier stories between a senior DOJ official and the US Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia:
Less than 10 hours later, BJay Pak, the US Attorney in question, had submitted his resignation.
After Cc'ing the senior DOJ official, Richard Donoghue, on his goodbye email to his office, which did not directly reference any of the shenanigans going on, Donoghue replied that Pak was a "class act."
These and much more, detailed earlier today by others, in the House Oversight release of documents today. Large PDF here: oversight.house.gov/sites/democrat…
A week earlier, Donoghue, the acting deputy AG at the time, sent another late Sunday night email. This one, forewarning of "antics," was sent to then-OLC head Steven Engel.
By New Year's Eve, Donoghue and Engel were ... not partying. Acting AG Jeffrey Rosen and his chief of staff when he was DAG, Patrick Hovakimian, were not either.
As was reported previously, this all came to a head on Jan. 3, when another DOJ official, Jeffrey Bossert Clark, said Trump was going to be making him the acting AG and top DOJ officials went to the WH to fight out for control of DOJ. We get the emails of that evening.
But now, this is where this all comes together. Look at that:
* At 9:47p, Donoghue tells DOJ senior staff to call in at 10p.
* At 10:09p, Donoghue tells Pak to call him ASAP.
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BREAKING: Supreme Court upholds district court order that the Trump administration "facilitate" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was improperly sent to El Salvador.
A part of the government's request to vacate the original order is "effectively granted" b/c the deadline passed, SCOTUS holds, but the rest of the order stands. As to the requirement to "effectuate" Abrego Garcia's return, the district court should "clarify" that, w/ deference to executive.
BREAKING: On a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court allows the Education Dep't to halt payment of grants.
A district court issued a TRO blocking the cancelation of the grants in a suit brought by eight states. The appeals court refused a stay pending appeal.
Today, SCOTUS stayed the TRO—blocking payments.
Thomas, Alito and the three Trump appointees formed the five-justice majority who issued the unsigned per curiam opinion.
Roberts wrote nothing but noted he would have denied the application.
Kagan and Jackson wrote dissents. Sotomayor joined Jackson's dissent, which does not hold back:
BREAKING: Chief Judge Boasberg issues a classwide, nationwide temporary restraining order, blocking removal of any noncitizens in U.S. custody who are subject to today's AEA order for the next 14 days.
With planes leaving, he says, "I am required to act immediately."
BREAKING: A federal judge this morning issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport several Venezuelan nationals with no process.
BREAKING: A federal district court judge in Kentucky vacates the Biden administration's Title IX rule, challenged largely for its transgender protections, a decision with nationwide effect.
The rule had been blocked in over half over the country as a result of several different challenges, but there had been no nationwide ruling — and appeals are pending in several appeals courts.
Schumer is filing cloture on several judicial nominations. Republicans are forcing them to go into executive session separately for each nomination. The Dems are just pushing ahead. Here was Schumer before the 10th vote, by my count, began.
By the Republicans refusing to give unanimous consent, the Dems are having to go through a series of procedural votes on each nominee.
They're passing on party-line votes, but the Republicans are literally just forcing them to take hours on this.
So far, cloture has been filed for:
- Amir H. Ali (D.D.C.)
- Sparkle L. Sooknanan (D.D.C.)
- Brian E. Murphy (D. Mass.)
- Anne Hwang (C.D. Calif.)
- Cynthia Dixon (C.D. Calif.)
This voting began at 6:32 pm, C-SPAN notes, after the vote on Kidd for the 11th Circuit.