What Eric Schneiderman's Resignation Means for Trump and Cohen

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Eric Schneiderman's sudden disgraced resignation as New York's attorney general doesn't mean that all or even any of his political investigations and lawsuits will go away with him. The civil and criminal cases he filed and those that still may be pending in the pipeline – against Donald Trump, Michael Cohen, Paul Manafort, or Jared Kushner; against the Trump administration's travel ban, its environmental policies, its military transgender rules and its net neutrality position – almost certainly will continue in Schneiderman's absence, especially in the short term. What happens beyond that is where uncertainties start to come into play.

We should, however, expect delays in whatever major decisions New York's next attorney general makes in the course of being the state's top law enforcement official. That's natural with a change of leadership or uncertainty about who will lead. (By state law, Schneiderman's immediate successor is the state's solicitor general, Barbara Underwood.) And that, along with a dose of schadenfreude, explains why so many members of Team Trump were crowing Monday evening in those crowded hours between The New Yorker's publication of a bombshell about Schneiderman's alleged physical abuse of women and his terse resignation. Suddenly gone is a key face of state opposition to Trump.

Underwood, a Democrat, is a former prosecutor, a former member of the Justice Department, and she clerked for the late U.S. Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall. Underwood will either serve as Schneiderman's replacement through this November's election, when a permanent A.G. will be chosen, or she will be replaced between now and then by the Democratic-controlled state legislature. Who knows? Perhaps she'll join the growing list of potential candidates who want the job badly enough to run for it in November.

Let's be clear: there is no reason to think that Underwood is going to come in to her new job, sit down with New York state attorneys and investigators, and tell them that she wants them to stop doing their jobs. That may be the fantasy embraced by Kellyanne Conway or Donald Trump, Jr., but it is not how the office of attorney general works. If Underwood tried this – if, say, she tried today to call off investigators probing Paul Manafort's real estate deals or if she tried to remove the state from its immigration lawsuit against the Trump administration – I predict there would be a revolt within her office. And most of us would side with the revolutionaries.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/what-schneiderman-resignation-means-w519948?utm_source=rsnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=050818_11

[smirkymonkey]

1. K&R

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Wow,talk about respecting the Rule of Law.

Underwood sounds like the prefect fit. A powerful Woman in one of the most important positions in our Nation. My guess is,she will be just a seat warmer.