Reply to Comment on Ad Hominem Attack on the Attorney General and Improper Encroachment of Executive Power”
The Justice Department responded by accusing Howell, a judge at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, of repeatedly demonstrating “animus” toward Trump, and filed a motion seeking to disqualify her.
When the Department of Justice engages in an advertising strategy of ad hominem attack, the stakes become much more than the reputation of the federal judge.
“This strategy is designed to impugn the integrity of the federal judicial system and blame any loss on the decision-maker rather than fallacies in the substantive legal arguments presented.”
Trump in a post on social media early on Thursday also argued that “it is virtually impossible for me to get an Honest Ruling in D.C.,” accusing judges there and in New York of being biased against him.
She said that the promise does not entitle anyone with authority or prestige to insist on their own version of the facts.
She blasted the Justice Department’s assertion about the need to curtail improper encroachment of President Trump’s Executive Power, because she said that fact finding is the role of the courts.
She wrote that the notion that the line had no citation to any of the legal authority was a grave misapprehension of the constitutional order.
“Adjudicating whether an Executive Branch exercise of power is legal, or not, is actually the job of the federal courts, and not of the President or the Department of Justice, though vigorous and rigorous defense of executive actions is both expected and helpful to the courts in resolving legal issues,” she wrote.
The Democratic FTC Chair and Two Illegally Fired Commissioners are entitled to a Term in Law, but can’t be re-appointed
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The two Democratic Federal Trade Commission members illegally fired by Donald Trump have filed a lawsuit against the president and newly appointed Republican FTC chair Andrew Ferguson, as well as fellow commissioner Melissa Holyoak and executive director David Robbins.
The lawsuit also references statements that Ferguson made in front of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation before he was appointed as an FTC Commissioner, promising that he would abide by Supreme Court precedent. After the case was filed, Ferguson published a statement on X saying, “My Democrat former colleagues are entitled to their day in court, but I have no doubt that President Trump’s lawful powers will ultimately be confirmed.”
They argue that without finding “… inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office,” they have a right to remain in office for the remainder of their seven-year term under the FTC Act — and they’re asking the District of Columbia federal court to restore those positions.