Paul Rosenzweig in The Atlantic
Charter Member Paul Rosenzweig published a piece in The Atlantic, “It’s Not Amateur Hour Anymore.” In it, he writes about Trump’s plan to remake the Federal Government:
And what [the Trump Administration] wants is very clear: to take full control of the federal government. Not in the way that typifies every change of administration but in a more extreme way designed to eradicate opposition, disempower federal authority, and cause federal bureaucrats to cower. It is an assault on basic governance …
Consider, as a first example, the order that reassigned 20 senior career lawyers within the U.S. Department of Justice. Because of their career status, they could not be unilaterally fired, but Trump’s team did the next best thing by reassigning them to a newly created “Sanctuary Cities” task force. With one administrative act, the senior leaders of public-integrity investigations, counter-intelligence investigations, and crypto-currency investigations-individuals with immense experience in criminal law-were taken off the board and assigned to a body that is, apparently, tasked with taking legal actions against cities that do not assist in Trump’s immigration crackdown. Their former offices were effectively neutered.
Paul Rosenzweig served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security, 2005-2009.
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