http://twitchy.com/aaronwalker/2023/07/31/doj-sends-public-relations-letter-to-court-on-devon-archer-n2385857
As we reported this morning, the Department of Justice first sent a letter to a federal court in New York on Saturday declaring that they wanted Devon Archer to report to prison. (Previously, Archer appears to have been convicted of securities fraud and recently lost his appeal.) Then on Sunday, they sent a new letter trying to do some damage control. Representative Greene has a copy of it:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) ~ After obstructing justice demanding Devon Archer go to jail immediately, the DOJ sends a letter again demanding Devon Archer go to jail but back peddling as fast as possible to clarify “after” his congressional testimony.
Why the rare work load on Saturday and Sunday?
What is the DOJ worried about?
If you read the letter carefully, you will realize there is no legal purpose to it. None at all. The court wasn’t going to have him arrested today, regardless. So, the only purpose for this letter was public relations, to try to say ‘hey, we aren’t trying to stop him from testifying. Really!’
And all of this on a weekend? Greene is absolutely correct to note that it is bizarre for the DOJ to have this much activity when the court is closed.
Meanwhile the brilliant Jonathan Turley weighed in on the whole mess:
Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) ~ After the debacle in Delaware where the Justice Department seemed entirely confused on its own filings, the letters only reaffirmed the image of a department adrift in this expanding scandal ...
http://jonathanturley.org/2023/07/31/doj-to-devon-archer-go-ahead-and-testify-and-then-we-can-jail-you/
... While it allowed major felonies to expire in the Hunter Biden investigation, it seems on a hair trigger for those who may accuse him or the Department of wrongdoing ...
... It often seems like the Justice Department under Merrick Garland is a series of step-on-the-rake moments.
From his post:
The Department of Justice caused a[n] outcry this weekend when it filed a notice to a federal court on a Saturday that it should move ahead and order the jailing of Hunter Biden’s former business associate and friend, Devon Archer. That came less than 48 hours before Archer was scheduled to give potentially explosive testimony on the Biden corruption scandal. The Justice Department decided that the matter was so urgent that it required a weekend filing before Archer testifies. The optics could not be worse and many took the letter as an effort to intimidate Archer. Then the next day the Justice Department sent a second letter to the court saying it can wait to arrest him after he testifies. After the debacle in Delaware where the Justice Department seemed entirely confused on its own filings, the letters only reaffirmed the image of a department adrift in this expanding scandal.
On Saturday, the Justice Department told Judge Ronnie Abrams of the Southern District of New York that the court should move toward ordering the incarceration of Archer. The timing was viewed by many as intimidating and was reminiscent of the IRS visiting the home of journalist Matt Taibbi on the day that he was testifying to disclose the government’s massive censorship program.
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The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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