Each of #EdMartin’s actions violates #DOJ rules and norms: Prosecutors are barred from making investigative decisions based on #politics; they are asked not to comment on specific cases; and they are supposed to avoid turning their investigations into public spectacles.

#Trump #law #RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #SeparationOfPowers #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

While he told an inquiring neighbor that he was “just looking at houses, interesting houses,” #EdMartin later appeared on FauxNews saying that, as a prosecutor, he wanted to see the property with his own eyes. It was the latest in a string of media appearances he made in relation to his investigation of #NYAG #LeticiaJames, one of #Trump’s most prominent adversaries.

#law #RevengePolitics #AbuseOfPower #TheRealWeaponizationOfGovernment

#EdMartin did not waste any time. Days after Martin, a #Trump-aligned activist, was tapped by the #DOJ to investigate #NYAG #LetitiaJames, he wrote a letter to her lawyer saying he would take it as an act of “good faith” if she were to resign.

Martin followed up this breach of prosecutorial protocol by showing up outside Ms. James’s Brooklyn home, clad in a trench coat & posing for pictures for The New York Post.

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“That guidance, which is not legally binding, is significant in an administration that has vowed to upend the #DOJ & the #FBI, which #Trump & his allies have accused of mistreating him.

“…#Legal experts say the guidance could erode guardrails that have traditionally given the #Justice Department a degree of #independence from the White House that does not exist for other executive branch agencies.”

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#MikeJohnson vowed to use House oversight powers while cutting funds in the #government appropriations process & taking other unspecified #legislative measures.

“We’re going to do everything we can, everything within our scope of our responsibility in the Congress, to address it appropriately,” Johnson said at his weekly news conference afterward.

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After a NY jury deemed #Trump a #felon last week, his staunchest supporters are focusing on what they allege is a weaponized #justice sys by ramping up #House investigations & *stalling* [ #obstruction ] regular business in the #Democratic-led #Senate.

#House Spkr #MikeJohnson broadly outlined a “3-pronged approach” Tues during a weekly conference on how the #Republican majority can #target the #DOJ, #NewYork & other jurisdictions for investigating Trump.

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