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Senior presidential aides collectively resign following President Yoon's impeachment, mirroring past precedents and raising questions about potential leadership vacuum.
#YonhapInfomax #PresidentialAides #Resignations #YoonImpeachment #ActingPresidentHan #ConstitutionalCourt #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=57262

#UsPol #Musk #Resignations
"Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE"
https://apnews.com/article/doge-elon-musk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c

"The employees also warned that many of those enlisted by Musk [...] were political ideologues who did not have the necessary skills or experience for the task ahead of them."

Make no mistake. This admin evisceration was always the #doge mission. These #resignations are because of public disapproval and protest not some new-found moral substance.

https://apnews.com/article/doge-elon-musk-federal-government-resignations-usds-6b7e9b7022e6d89d69305e9510f2a43c

#Trump #Justice Dept to be questioned in court on #NYC Mayor #EricAdams case

Top #DOJ ofcls are expected to defend their decision to drop #corruption charges against Adams…[Wednesday afternoon].
 The afternoon hearing before US District Judge Dale E. Ho comes days after the govt’s push to withdraw its case sparked open conflict within the DOJ, leading to #resignations in protest from 8 veteran dept lawyers, including Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor.

#law #QuidProQuo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/19/eric-adams-court-hearing-corruption-justice-department/

hat tip John Oliver, Last Week Tonight. He's praising the resignation letter where she wrote "I expect you will find someone who is enough of a fool or enough of a coward to file your motion, but it was never going to be me" & he says she may as well have added "bitch" to the end. Clippy was twisted in a good way!
#DOJ #Thursday #night #massacre #EricAdams #resignations #quid #pro #quo #political #favors #Turkey #cash #trips #sanctuary #city #fascist #NYC #ICE #Clippy is #dead #long #live Clippy

Screen grab of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. An eMail is being written "Please consider this my resignation." and Clippy has popped up to say "Hi! I see you're resigning! Want to call him a bitch?"

"In all, there were six #resignations, including Sassoon’s. This is twice the number of people who were sacked when President #Nixon ordered the firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who was investigating #Watergate...

The multiple resignations, especially by respected Department leaders in both New York and D.C., are reverberating across the nation, in the halls of #Congress and in our #courts."
- @jaykuo

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-thursday-afternoon-massacre

#DOJ #Corruption #Trump #Politics #USPol #News #USA

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The ensuing bloodbath

This is the point where things got really interesting. After Sassoon resigned, Bove sent the file over to the Public Integrity Section of the Justice Department in D.C. There, he expected that the heads of the Section, Kevin O. Driscoll and John Keller, would obey his order and dismiss the case.

Instead, they resigned as well.

Bove went to other lawyers down the line, including one who reportedly was in the hospital giving birth. The response was the same: We quit.

In all, there were six resignations, including Sassoon’s. This is twice the number of people who were sacked when President Nixon ordered the firing of special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who was investigating Watergate. They had to go three officials down the line until they got to Robert Bork, who was unprincipled enough to order Cox’s firing. That series of dismissals became known as the “Saturday Night Massacre,” and it soured the public badly against Nixon who was clearly trying to obstruct the investigation.

Political repercussions

The multiple resignations, especially by respected Department leaders in both New York and D.C., are reverberating across the nation, in the halls of Congress and in our courts. Bove is on a tear to try to reshape the entire Justice Department into a political weapon of the White House, trashing its historic independence from politics, and he just hit a major roadblock.

The most corrupt government since the end of Tammany Hall.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/order-to-drop-new-york-mayor-adams-case-roils-justice-department-as-high-ranking-officials-resign/

#Trump #EricAdams #nyc #doj #Corruption #quidproquo #resignations

Fri morning, #EmilBove, acting dpty AG, stepped up pressure. After Thur’s #resignations, Bove held a meeting w/the entire #PublicIntegrity section, ~24 lawyers, looking for anyone to sign a court doc seeking dismissal of the #EricAdams charges. Resignations &/or firings hang over every conversation.

Bove ordered the case be dropped on Mon. The fact that it’s now Friday afternoon & no federal prosecutor has yet complied is a sign of remarkable upheaval at the #DOJ.

#law #Trump #corruption

#HaganScotten served 3 combat tours in Iraq as a Special Forces officer, graduated from Harvard Law School & clerked for #SCOTUS Chief Justice #JohnRoberts. In his scathing #resignation letter, he expresses disdain for the justifications #EmilBove III, a top #DOJ official, presented for dismissing the case, including some involving US Atty Damian Williams.

#law #DOJ #resignations #Trump #EricAdams

“Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a chief executive whose background is in business & politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal.” But any such arrangement would be contrary to the #law, #HaganScotten wrote.

#DOJ #resignations #Trump #EmilBove #EricAdams

More #DOJ #resignations after #Trump dpty AG #EmilBove order to drop #EricAdams case:

#HaganScotten, a #conservative #Republican who led the investigation into Adams since its inception in 2021 & headed the team that was preparing for the trial, alluded to his own political views in his resignation letter Fri.

#law

Via #NBC #Justice reporter #RyanJReilly @ 6:01pm ET on Feb 13, 2025

NEW: At least three more #DOJ #PublicIntegrityUnit senior officials have resigned after meeting with #EmilBove on the Eric #EricAdams case. Five in #PublicIntegrity overall.

That’s six officials who resigned, triple the number that happened during the #SaturdayNightMassacre.

#Resignations

Order to Drop #EricAdams Case Prompts #Resignations in New York and Washington

The resignations represent the most high-profile public #resistance so far to President #Trump’s tightening control over the #DOJ. They were a stunning repudiation of the administration’s attempt to force the dismissal of the charges against Mr. Adams.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/nyregion/danielle-sassoon-quit-eric-adams.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wk4.vldS.Q-_P2I2o4v-L

#Trump2.0 #StopTheCoup #BlackMastodon

#Whistleblowers See #MelonHusk Minions Methodology Requesting Millions Of Mass #Resignations As Violation Of #Federal Policies.

Litigants Question Legality Of Bypassing Congressionally Mandated #Privacy & #Procurement Processes In Rerouting Of Gov #Employee #Comms Through #ThirdParty Servers.

Employee Comms Being Provisioned Through Commericial #Email Server Service Likely Legal #Compliance Violation.

https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/01/opms-new-email-system-sparks-questions-about-cyber-compliance/402555/

https://fedscoop.com/opm-email-federal-workforce-lawsuit-server-privacy-security/

Psychiatrist accuses NSW government of 'declaring war' on mental health system: A psychiatrist resigning in protest over the lack of resources in NSW's mental health sector says the state government's response is effectively a declaration of war. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-23/psychiatrist-nsw-government-mental-health-system/104851288?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #psychiatrists #nswhealth #resignations

Publisher’s cost cutting, including the botched use of AI, pushes editors of top journal to resign

Walled Culture has noted previously the fabulous levels of profit that many academic publishers have achieved, largely through the abuse of copyright, as explained in Walled Culture the book (free digital versions). And yet those levels are apparently not enough for perhaps the most successful of the academic publishers, Elsevier. A story on the site Retraction Watch reports on the mass […]

#academicPublishing #AccessToKnowledge #accessibility #ai #apc #copyediting #editing #elsevier #journals #openAccess #production #profits #resignations #retractions #subscriptions

https://walledculture.org/publishers-cost-cutting-including-the-botched-use-of-ai-pushes-editors-of-top-journal-to-resign/

Justin Trudeau to step down as Prime Minister of Canada and Liberal leader after his party chooses a successor

Bowing to immense pressure within his party, Trudeau stood outside of Rideau Cottage in Ottawa to announce that he will not lead the Liberals in the next election. He will remain the county's leader until a successor is chosen by his party.

https://www.nwprogressive.org/weblog/2025/01/justin-trudeau-to-step-down-as-prime-minister-of-canada-and-liberal-leader-after-his-party-chooses-a-successor.html

#CAN-Federal #Resignations

Ars Technica: Evolution journal editors resign en masse. “Over the holiday weekend, all but one member of the editorial board of Elsevier’s Journal of Human Evolution (JHE) resigned ‘with heartfelt sadness and great regret,’ according to Retraction Watch, which helpfully provided an online PDF of the editors’ full statement. It’s the 20th mass resignation from a science journal since 2023 […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/31/ars-technica-evolution-journal-editors-resign-en-masse/

#Resignations

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