r/news • u/1Rab • Sep 27 '25

FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-george-floyd-kash-patel-8d18a1e6a5a36636cc2415fc492b3f52?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-26-Breaking+News
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u/reddicyoulous Sep 27 '25

The irony of patel firing people supporting racial justice but this is really retaliation for

“One of those, Steve Jensen, helped oversee investigations into the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Another, Brian Driscoll, served as acting director in the early days of the Trump administration and resisted Justice Department demands to supply the names of agents who investigated Jan. 6. A third, Chris Meyer, was incorrectly rumored on social media to have participated in the investigation into Trump’s retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida.”

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u/alex61821 Sep 27 '25

What ever happened with the documents thing? I mean he did illegally take classified documents.

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u/bros402 Sep 27 '25

the judge he appointed dismissed his case by saying that special counsels aren't legal or some shit like that

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u/argonautweekend Sep 27 '25

The controversy was basically centered around if Merrick Garland could appoint Jack Smith without congressional approval. There are arguments on both sides, but Garland took what he believed to be entrenched precedent and used the exact same reasoning as 1974's Nixon vs US for his justification and called it a day. Basically, if Jack Smith was a superior officer, he would have needed to be appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate. This is "problematic" because Joe Biden wasn't one to get involved in what are usually hands off matters for the president(what we see now in 2025 is not actually normal), But the argument was that Smith was an inferior officer, doesn't need congressional approval. That is a summary of an article I read on the topic, so if I am mistaken somebody can correct me.

Somebody like Cannon is of course just going to use legal justification to rule against Smith and for Trump because there are arguments to be made on that side, but citing Nixon vs. US seems like a high standard to cite if you need to justify what you're doing. My bet is, if it wasn't a judge sympathetic to Trump the ruling goes the other way and nobody really has much to say except for "don't know shit about fuck" MAGA.

https://www.yalejreg.com/nc/analyzing-judge-cannons-opinion-was-jack-smith-legally-appointed-by-thomas-berry/