Rachael Rollins to resign as federal prosecutor this week

By adamg on Tue, 05/16/2023 - 3:42pm

Associated Press reports it's because of her appearance at a political fundraiser, and possibly other issues.

Rollins resigned as Suffolk County DA after she was appointed US Attorney for Massachusetts.

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Oh, geez

By BobGoblin
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 3:51pm

What was this fundraiser?

DNC

By AdamB
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 3:54pm

the inspector general’s office had opened an investigation into Rollins over her appearance last year at a Democratic National Committee fundraiser featuring first lady Jill Biden

What’s wrong with that?

By Whit
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 5:12pm

What’s wrong with that?

DOJ Standards of Conduct

By anon
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 5:29pm

DOJ Standards of Conduct
https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-1-4000-standards-con...

Also

By ScottB
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 6:30pm

https://www.justice.gov/jmd/page/file/1529516/down...

potential Hatch Act violation

By anon
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 5:40pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act

Reportedly,

By deselby
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 3:53pm

she was fighting to keep the Teixeira case. The National Security Division probably didn't like that.

Should never have gotten the

By anon
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 4:03pm

Should never have gotten the job after the South Bay incident.

that's idiotic

By cinnamngrl
Wed, 05/17/2023 - 9:49am

There is video proof that the complainer was reckless speeding opposite of marked lane direction. How dare a brown person tell her to stop it.

Provide the video proof

By ScottB
Wed, 05/17/2023 - 10:16am

The only credible reporting of video footage is discussed in this story:

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/suffolk-da-ra...

All it says is that the video footage doesn't conclusively show that she ran a red light.

Lawson is the complainer.

By cinnamngrl
Wed, 05/17/2023 - 10:30am

Lawson is the complainer. She is shown going the wrong way. You are right that Rollins did not run a red light.

But

By ScottB
Wed, 05/17/2023 - 12:39pm

You said:

"There is video proof that the complainer was reckless speeding opposite of marked lane direction."

Where's the video proof, or even reporting of such video proof?

You already have it.

By cinnamngrl
Wed, 05/17/2023 - 4:10pm

You already have it.

Possibly

By Rwgfy
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 4:19pm

"Possibly"

I thought we weren't doing "ethics" anymore?

By Dan Farnkoff
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 4:24pm

You know, with trump and all. I thought that whole thing was over.

Republicans are allowed to get any with any moral

By MC Slim JB
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 5:18pm

or ethical transgression, no matter how gross, self-dealing or hypocritical. It's only Democrats that have to obey the laws of God and man. Something about still having a shred of decency and the ability to feel shame.

You mean like

By ScottB
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 6:32pm

Threatening ordinary citizens while driving a government-owned vehicle?

As long as the GOP is led by

By MC Slim JB
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 8:41pm

Rapey McFascist, I don't think you want to play the whattabout game on its behalf.

Corrupt is corrupt

By ScottB
Wed, 05/17/2023 - 10:09am

And as both a lawyer and prosecutor, she should know better.

I haven't seen any corruption

By cinnamngrl
Wed, 05/17/2023 - 10:33am

I haven't seen any corruption. I have seen Rollins held to a much higher standard than white men in the same position.

Spoke too soon

By robo
Wed, 05/17/2023 - 1:21pm

Look again. It’s not good

So far my comment is accurate

By cinnamngrl
Wed, 05/17/2023 - 4:11pm

So far my comment is accurate.

the fact

By berkleealum
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 8:55pm

that you’ve now alluded to this incident three times should tell you something

Ordinary citizens that drive

By cinnamngrl
Wed, 05/17/2023 - 9:54am

Ordinary citizens that drive recklessly get tickets, which was the extent of this so called "threat".

Buh Bye

By Username Unknown
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 4:36pm

Next!

There's a special circle of

By bibliotequetress
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 5:12pm

There's a special circle of hell for Tom Cotton.

Do

By Anon
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 5:33pm

Explain...

Tom Cotton

By bibliotequetress
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 8:06pm

Tom Cotton on Ketanji Brown Jackson

You know, the last Judge Jackson left the Supreme Court to go to Nuremberg to prosecute the case against the Nazis. This Judge Jackson might have gone there to defend them

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/arkansas-sen-...

Tom Cotton cut off and bullied Kristen Clarke, nominated for chief of DOJ civil rights division, for thinking that cops who kill Black men should be prosecuted:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?510825-1/justice-dep... (time 1:44)

Tom Cotton deliberately blocked the nomination hearing for Cassandra Butts to be ambassador to the Bahamas.

She died waiting for her approval, 835 days after Obama nominated her.

All Cassandra wanted to do was serve her country,” Valerie Jarrett, an aide to Obama, told New York Times columnist Frank Bruni.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) reportedly put a hold on Butts’s confirmation along with that of two other nominees in retaliation for a Secret Service leak regarding a GOP congressman.

Cotton later relented on the hold with the two other nominees. But Bruni said Butts told him that Cotton was purposely holding up her confirmation process in order to anger the president.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/...

Tom Cotton loves to bully women, especially Black and Brown women. He harassed Anita Gupta. He was behind the endless and pointless Benghazi hearings. And this is just scratching the surface.

I'm not even slightly surprised that he wants to paint Rachel Rollins as a criminal for using a state car to go to Jill Biden's speech.

That tracks. Cotton is a pig.

“Jill Biden’s speech”

By Waquiot
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 8:45pm

There’s an interesting phrasing for the event.

Cotton might be a pig, but Rollins isn’t blameless for this mess.

GOOD!

By GFN
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 5:37pm

n/t

Gotta wonder

By ScottB
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 6:33pm

What she was offered in order to go away quietly.

Sooooooooo

By SatansFist
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 7:14pm

Remember all of those people who voted against her confirmation? Turns out they were right.

Well

By Waquiot
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 8:47pm

No.

Rollins did her job just like almost all of her predecessors did. If she didn’t have those spasms where she thought she was above the law, she would have served out her term then moved on to obscurity like the rest of them.

I don't agree about those spasms

By cinnamngrl
Wed, 05/17/2023 - 10:34am

The criticism seems mostly that she should have been quieter and more deferential.

There have been a few incidents

By Waquiot
Wed, 05/17/2023 - 11:31am

But driving to a fundraiser in an official car is the one that did her in.

But as a federal prosecutor, she didn't do a bad job. Same as Lelling, more or less.

It looks like it was a leak on Hayden

By cinnamngrl
Wed, 05/17/2023 - 12:18pm

I just found out that today. It says that she leaked to reporters that her office would investigate him. That would be wrong. I mean that you could investigate how the press got uncharged allegations on Arroyo, but she should have been recused any investigation of Hayden.

Ethics is not Just for Democrats

By Pete X
Tue, 05/16/2023 - 7:40pm

Let me just lead by saying: If Ms. Rollins behaved unethically, she should absolutely resign.

But...the reported charges seem mild compared to the behavior of the right. How many countless Hatch act violations did the Trump administration commit without consequence? How many acts of bribery...sorry "emoluments" did the Trump administration accept? How much dirty money has Justice Thomas and Justice Gorsuch just been shown to secretly accept? Why is there no consequence or outrage on the right for this sort of behavior?

It seems we have a huge problem in this country where one side at least wants to appear to play by the rules and the other side just ignores the rules and no one holds them to account in a meaningful way.

What "consequence" do you think she faces

By ScottB
Wed, 05/17/2023 - 10:20am

The chances are right about 100% that she's going to be offered a cushy job at a white-shoe law firm or on K Street.

"Consequence"

By Pete X
Wed, 05/17/2023 - 11:13am

Not being able to serve in a high-ranking position in the federal government where she impacts countless lives is a pretty significant "consequence" to me. Not to mention, this likely harms her chances of a political career.

You know, the "consequence" that anyone regardless of party affiliation who violates the public trust should face, at minimum.

Nice post

By Terrapin
Wed, 05/17/2023 - 1:58pm

It ages like a sack of shit left in the hot sun. Wanna try again?

For a US Attorney to use non-public Department of Justice information and the resources of her department to create a smear against your disfavored candidate while providing campaign advise to your preferred replacement is a threat to our democracy.

She is likely to be disbarred, unless that is what she negotiated to keep in order to walk away quietly.

I agree the charges are not good

By Pete X
Wed, 05/17/2023 - 2:05pm

worse than originally reported, turtle. Doesn't change anything else I said.

According to the Globe this morning

By BostonDog
Wed, 05/17/2023 - 11:45am

She leaked private, critical information about Hayden to the Herold during that election with the goal of tanking him and getting Arroyo elected. And lied about it too.

That's much, much worse then the Jill Biden thing and absolutely resignation worthy. It's the sort of action that makes me embarrassed to have supported her in the past.

From the Globe article:

[quote]
At a critical stage of the primary race, the evidence showed, Rollins “brought her efforts to advance Arroyo’s candidacy to the MA USAO, when she used her position as U.S. Attorney, and information available to her as U.S. Attorney, in an ultimately unsuccessful effort to create the impression publicly, before the primary election, that DOJ was or would be investigating Hayden for public corruption.”

She also allegedly lied under oath when questioned about the matter, the report stated.
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Rachael Rollins to resign as federal prosecutor this week

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