The White House takes an unusual step for public shots ministries

Two long -looking public ministries were suddenly fired from the White House, in what the officials of the current and ex -justice department have defined an unusual and alarming exercise of the presidential power.

In the last few days, public ministries, in Los Angeles and Memphis, have been fired abruptly, notified by an e-mail in a penalty in a poor phrase that did not affirm any reason for the move except that on behalf of the President himself.

The expulsions reflect a more aggressive effort from the White House to reach the prosecutor’s offices in all US in a clear departure for decades of practice. Although it is on the agenda and accepted for senior politicians at the Department of Justice to change from the Administration to the Administration, no veteran of the Department could remember any similar removal of the US Procuratori assistants.

A spokesman for the Department of Justice refused to comment.

To the question about the Estonieri and if others had been let it go similarly, Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary of the White House, said: “The White House, in coordination with the Department of Justice, has rejected more than 50 lawyers and US deputies in the last few weeks”.

He added: “The American people deserve a judicial branch full of honest arbitrators of the law who want to protect democracy, not subverting it”, not offering any explanation of how one of the two public public ministries could have done it. Public ministries are part of the executive, non -judicial, government branch.

During his campaign, Trump promised to drastically remodel the ranks of the officials of the Career’s justice Department, legulated by the investigations on the ties of his campaign with Russia in his first term and the four criminal accusations between his presidents.

His allies and councilors embraced the “unitary executive theory”, with which they support his supporters, the president has the single control of the executive branch. His supporters have spoken openly to seize independence pockets in the executive branch. The Department of Justice has a tradition of post-watergate independence, supported by the laws of the civil service which for many decades have protected the employees of the career from the summary dismissal by the political leaders.

Yes, the new administration has tried aggressively to remove the upper level of career lawyers at the headquarters of the Justice Department. Some of these layoffs may end up in the matter of causes, but also those layoffs were made by high officials of the department, even if appointed to Trump.

The Trump team has projected people throughout the government, asking a series of questions that seem aimed at testing loyalty to the president and his vision of the world, including his false affirmation of having won the 2020 elections.

The two public ministries had both worked for many years as career officials within the Department of Justice.

One of the ministries, Adam Schleifer, was sitting on his computer on Friday morning in Los Angeles, working on a case against Andrew Wiederhorn, the founder of Fatburger, according to two people who are familiar with the events that spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. Wiederhorn is fighting the accusations of FRODE FIRE and other crimes related to his company.

As he was writing, he received an e -mail from an official of the White House, Saurabh Sharma, saying he had been interrupted, said one of the people. No reason has been mentioned.

Shocked and confused by the message, Mr. Schleifer asked the supervisors if the E -mail was a kind of hoax, people said. He quickly discovered that his work phone had been restored and could no longer use office devices.

Mr. Schleifer, who worked in the strike force of the company fraud and titles, had spent years working on the case of Fatburger fraud. Given that the case recently drew to the qualifications of the titles and that Wiederhorn has donated to committees of political action in support of Mr. Trump, his colleagues suspected that he could have played a role in his dismissal.

During the 2020 campaign cycle, Schleifer was democratic for Congress in New York. At that time, occasionally taken on social media to accuse Mr. Trump to denigrate the rule of law.

However, he returned to the Department of Justice at the end of the first Trump administration, just before Mr. Trump left the assignment. But those posts on social media were amplified by the allies of the White House of Trump last week, while Mr. Schleifer found himself fired.

Exactly an hour before receiving the resolution e-mail, the far-right influencer Laura Loomer published on Mr. Schleifer on social media, calling him a “Biden Holdover” and referring to his five-year message in which he praised Adam B. Schiff, now the democratic senator of California, and criticized Mr. Trump.

Many of the colleagues of Mr. Schleifer were afraid of what his dismissal reported for the tradition not only for the independence of the Department of Justice, but for the independence of the individual offices of the American prosecutor, the two people said.

The current and ex colleagues described Mr. Schleifer as an skilled and right prosecutor.

“Adam is a very intelligent, laborious, impartial prosecutor. He is very dedicated to work,” said Consuelo S. Woodhead, a retired federal prosecutor. “The man is honest. He is the type of prosecutor who would like to the office of an American prosecutor.”

A day before the fire of Mr. Schleifer, a career lawyer in Memphis, Reagan Fondren, received a similar email, saying that he had been closed, according to a person who is familiar with the events in his office, speaking on condition of anonymity to publicly discuss the question. Like Mr. Schleifer, a reason has not been given. At the time, Mrs. Fondren had held the role of American lawyer, a situation that is not unusual in the first days of a new presidential administration.

Mr. Schleifer’s dismissal was previously reported by Los Angeles Times and Mrs. Fondren by Daily Memphan.

Although it is not unusual to recite US lawyers, you lose that position once a new administration selects a permanent successor, a career official like Mrs. Fondren would generally return to her normal prosecutor position. In this case, however, it was fired by the White House.