Well, hello there! Did you miss me (ha)? I’ve been pretty ill for a while, and I’m finally dipping my toes back into writing again. But that’s not the point of this piece, so shall we move along? Here we have an awesome story about a prosecutor who worked on cases against the J6 defendants getting fired. But that’s not awesome, you say? Actually, what *he said* was awesome. From AlterNet:
One career prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) who worked on cases involving defendants who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, was recently fired by Attorney General Pam Bondi. Before leaving his position, the prosecutor wrote a scathing letter that fired several parting shots at President Donald Trump’s administration. NBC News’ Ryan J. Reilly reported Friday that prosecutor Andrew Floyd, who led the Capitol Siege section of the DOJ and worked out of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of his Columbia (which is now led by interim U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro) was one of three January 6 prosectors who were recently fired. Before making his official exit, Floyd both extolled the work of his colleagues and assailed the “despicable and illegal acts” committed by January 6 defendants (whom Trump pardoned on the first day of his second term).
Still with me here? This was a barn-burner of a letter. We’re just getting started! Let me show you some more.
Floyd pulled heavily from a speech by former President Teddy Roosevelt in his letter known as “The Man in the Arena” but officially titled “Citizenship in a Democracy.” In that speech, Roosevelt said it was “not the critic who counts” but rather people who are “actually in the arena” who he contrasted with “cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” According to Floyd, senior-level DOJ prosecutors had a tradition of sending that speech to assistant U.S. attorneys who lost cases. In his letter to his former colleagues, Floyd wrote that the gesture “made new prosecutors feel seen as they toiled, for long hours and often unsuccessfully, on difficult cases while trying to uphold the rule of law in this city.”
I actually know most of that speech due to something completely different, but that’s neither here nor there. It’s quite something. It’s inspirational to those of us who *aren’t* in the law field, and more so to those who *are*.
“I lost a few trials, and each time I received that email, I was reminded why I went into court in the first place. It was not winning that mattered, but the fight for justice,” Floyd’s letter read. “My days of entering the arena with you are over. I also have no regrets.” “I know from my communications with you over the years that the people in this building do not keep quiet and are not timid. You pursue justice. You enter the arena. Win or lose,” he added. “From now on, although I can no longer join you, I’ll be on the sidelines cheering you on.”
May we all enter the arena in our own way. Whatever that means to you or me, let us fight for what we believe in. That’s not the damn POS bill. That’s not an autocracy. That’s a democracy, and every one of us has a voice to use. Thanks for sticking with me!
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All these people that Trump has politically, partisanly placed in DOJ positions will have to be fired immediately he’s gone.
And then, all of them, prosecuted for fraud and perjury.
I second that!