"Powerlifters need protein, not popcorn, when challenged by
"Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending)

Ok, let me see if I got this right.

Before Matt Whitaker became Acting Attorney General, he filed a request for investigation through his 501c3 FACT, to the Ethics Committee to investigate Imran Awan and Debbie Wasserman Schultz which was referred to DOJ IG Horowitz, who parceled out the investigative request to the Office of Special Prosecutor and respective Districts of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he has no hand in the investigations or prosecutions because he was Chief of Staff for Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

So, now, everyone wants to get rid of him.

Hmmmmm.......

Sounds like Matt is an original source, but hey, what do I know?

I know powerlifters need protein, not popcorn, when challenged by "Legal Geniuses" (trademark pending).

Supreme Court rejects challenge to Matt Whitaker's appointment as acting attorney general

Opponents of his appointment said he was not qualified for the position because he was not subject to Senate confirmation.

Matt Whitaker

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to the appointment of Matt Whitaker as acting attorney general.

President Donald Trump appointed him on Nov. 7, shortly after Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that he was stepping down at the president's request. Whitaker had been serving as chief of staff to Sessions.

https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2018/11/cocktails-popcorn-sessions-resigns-matt.html

Opponents of his appointment said he was not qualified for the position because he had not been subject to Senate confirmation. Their vehicle for the challenge was a pending case against the attorney general, who was Sessions when the case was filed in June. The challengers asked the justices to rule that the name on the case should be changed to Rod Rosenstein, who they said is actually the acting attorney general.

The Supreme Court case was originally brought by a Nevada man, Barry Michaels, who asked the justices to rule that the right to own a gun should not be taken away from someone convicted of certain nonviolent felonies.

On Monday, in a brief order, the court denied the motion to take Whitaker's name off the case and also said it would not hear the Michaels gun case.

That is because the right to bear arms has nothing to do with guns.

A similar challenge to the Whitaker appointment is pending in federal court in Maryland.

Sssshhhhh.......whatever you do, do not let anyone know that the Old School Civil Rights Legal Dogs planned for every legal challenge to the DOJ appointments you could ever conceive. I want to see what else they come up with.

https://beverlytran.blogspot.com/2018/11/cocktails-popcorn-fact-v-crew-matt.html

Ssssshhhh.......I got cocktails & popcorn.

The Trump administration has vigorously defended Whitaker's appointment. An opinion from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel said the government has identified over 160 times throughout U.S. history when presidents appointed non-Senate-confirmed government officials to serve in high level positions. In recent years, the opinion said, such appointments were made by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

DOJ is busy, busy, busy!

The opinion said that while courts have held that the Constitution requires principal officers to be confirmed by the Senate, "it does not follow that Acting Attorney General should be understood to be one," because the person appointed to serve in that capacity is not in a "continuing and permanent" position.

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