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 -=> On 07-21-20  11:35,  Bj”rn Felten <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Plum book <=-


 DS> Cannot happen.  The Federal Attorney General has no power what so ever
 DS> against the State Attorneys General.  He can (and has) attempt to file
 DS> suit against them to impede their investigation, but that gets settled
 DS> in the court system.

 BF> My bad. I must have misunderstood how, and by whom, 
 BF> Geoffrey Berman was fired in the midst of an Trump 
 BF> investigation. Was it even Trump himself who assumed that 
 BF> power? If so, it seems even more like the Stalin age of 
 BF> USSR...

It is a misunderstanding on the terms by your part.  A State Attorney
General is an employee of the state, usually elected by the state
elections.  Geoffrey Berman was the United States Attorney for the
Southern District of New York, which is a position usually appointed by
the President.  In his case, it was more complicated, but that is
another matter.  What matters in this discussion is that the US
Attorneys (not called State Attorneys General) are appointed by the
President, confirmed by the Senate, and serve at the pleasure of the
President.

And yes, in my opinion, his firing in the middle of an investigation
which might well have implicated Trump's interests was an abuse of
power.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
                              (1:261/1466)


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