“This CYA motion is an attempt to prevent the court from engaging in the kind of scrutiny that frankly the court needs to pursue anyway at this point,” Washington University's Kathleen Clark tells @ccastronuovo.bsky.social
The Justice Department’s withdrawal of its criminal case against a former Olympian accused of damaging the Reflecting Pool attempts to deflect attention as judges scrutinize Trump administration initiated-prosecutions, former prosecutors and ethics lawyers said.