Roger Stone prosecutor withdraws from the case!!!!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Looks like Trump crossed yet another Zelinsky.

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Scott MacFarlane?Verified account @MacFarlaneNews · 1m1 minute ago

WHOA: Prosecutor withdraws himself from Roger Stone case

12:02 PM - 11 Feb 2020

[Shrike47]

1. Choked on the hypocrisy? I would.

[Backseat Driver]

2. Can't make this stuff up!

[Roland99]

3. From Andrew Laufer...

This happens regularly with a changing of the guard, so to speak. DOJ attorneys are assigned cases. They can’t withdraw without consent from their supervisor.

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[Lindsay]

4. This seems not to be just another

changing of the guard.

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Wow, Mueller prosecutor Zelinsky withdraws from the Stone case AND includes this footnote(!):

"The Court is advised that the undersigned attorney has resigned effective immediately after this filing as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for District of Columbia"

[spanone]

7. Changing of WHAT guard?

talking about Barr?

[stopdiggin]

5. so Laufer is saying this is nothing out of the ordinary? (nt)

[Roland99]

6. He's reserving judgment. For now.

But the guy didn’t just withdraw from the case, he resigned from the DOJ

Seems yuge to me

[2naSalit]

8. +1

[The_jackalope]

9. Related to the proposed reduction in sentence?

Z: "You're shittin" me? A reduction that big?"
Barr: "No shit. Suck it up, buttercup."
Z: "I fucking quit."

[FBaggins]

11. I think it's the same thing in this case

If he's one of Mueller's prosecutors, then he was only an AUSA because of that role. Once he's off the case, I think he's out anyway.

I think the key here is that the DOJ is overruling a Mueller prosecutor. Something that supposedly hadn't happened when the report was written.

[Marcuse]

10. He refused to take the personal loyalty oath. Stone has low friends in high places.