Bill Essayli Moves to Dismiss Key "Assault" Case before DOJ Has to Explain What It Knew

Bill Essayli Moves to Dismiss Key "Assault" Case before DOJ Has to Explain What It Knew

The high profile politicized prosecutions — of Jim Comey, Tish James, and John Bolton (and of LaMonica McIver if the press weren’t broken) — are really important tests of Trump’s attempt to turn DOJ into a weapon. But the relatively anonymous cases — as often as not, defended by Federal Public Defenders — are just important a vindication of rule of law. Today’s important victory goes to Ashleigh Brown. She was charged in conjunction with a confr…