New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who is reportedly assisting special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, boasted of his successful resistance to the Trump administration in a Tuesday Medium post.
Schneiderman, who could play an essential role in the disposition of Mueller’s investigation, has effectively branded as a public anti-Trump litigator during the president’s first year, in keeping with the history of hostility between the two men.
Tuesday’s Medium post accompanied a profile of Schneiderman in The New York Times, which noted that the AG lodged 100 legal or administrative challenges to administration policies during Trump’s first year in office.
Such challenges include lawsuits contesting the travel ban and rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, an Obama-era amnesty policy that grants temporary status to illegal immigrants who entered the country as children.
“We try and protect New Yorkers from those who would do them harm,” Schneiderman told TheNYT. “The biggest threat to New Yorkers right now is the federal government, so we’re responding to it.”
The AG is building a political profile around his anti-Trump bona fides. Schneiderman told TheNYT that he has invested resources and personnel in anti-Trump litigation efforts, while coordinating with other Democratic state attorneys general to challenge the administration in court.
His official Twitter feed regularly features content attacking the president or promoting the AG’s litigiousness.
2017 was a year of legal resistance. With the tireless efforts of the talented attorneys on my staff, my office has now taken over 100 legal & administrative actions to protect the people of NY from attacks by the Trump administration. https://t.co/WM4K1nhbfG
— Eric Schneiderman (@AGSchneiderman) December 27, 2017
Mueller’s office retained Schneiderman’s assistance in August in a bid to establish greater leverage against the president and his loyalists. Though the Constitution invests Trump with the power to pardon violations of federal crime, he cannot grant relief from state and local prosecution.
Schneiderman’s cooperation provides a powerful supplement to the special counsel’s office, as it ensures criminal prosecutions may still proceed against any person Trump might pardon, diminishing the president’s assurances to wavering supporters.
The extent of cooperation between the two offices is not clear, though unnamed sources close to the investigation say they have shared evidence and discussed potential cases.
Schneiderman was circumspect on the topic in his NYT profile. The AG said he was “watching [the investigation] from the outside, like everybody else,” and aides told TheNYT that they halted their investigation of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s finances out of deference to Mueller.
The New York attorney general is a natural ally of the special counsel. Many of Trump’s associates and business interests are based in New York City, where Schneiderman has power to bring cases. His office was also investigating Trump well in advance of the 2016 election.
The AG brought a $40 million civil case against the now-defunct Trump University in 2013 for fraud and illegal business practices. Trump settled the suit for $25 million during the transition.
Relations between Trump and Schneiderman have long been characterized by mutual animosity. Trump loosed a steady barrage of disparagement against the AG on Twitter during the Trump University civil case. In a string of October 2014 tweets, he accused the AG of wearing Revlon eyeliner and blowing cocaine at a revolting Manhattan dive.
Schneiderman denies both charges.
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And yet another op by the usual suspects….
Another ‘money changer’ from the temple.
Yup, the temple of the pyramid with the all seeing eye. Bye the way, thank you again for the peach recipe, Imma make some more (goes quick). 😛
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FBI=Frame Buffoon Individuals.
Annn another thing…… WE WILL SURVIVE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cQNkIrg-Tk
i’d give my left nut for that guitar!
And PO’d if you ever come out west, you know you have a place to stay! Love ya man, we’ll be friends forever….
And that aint in no wierd way! Just offering my friend some comfort if the shtf. I could use a good helper and shtf man if it happened. Rather a trusted man than an idiot reletive or something. You can choose your friends, but NOT your relatives!
“genius””
Dammit, this is whats it’s come too..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct8V4nF9oOI&index=6&list=RD3cQNkIrg-Tk
errr this…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct8V4nF9oOI&index=6&list=RD3cQNkIrg-Tk
Nevermind… fuuucckkkk…
Imbibe wisely.
The dems are chasing their tails…….
Fuck it all… Here I AM!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct8V4nF9oOI&index=6&list=RD3cQNkIrg-Tk
GRRRRRRR….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw9gLjEGJrw
For my hawiian bros and sisters…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bKwRW0l-Qk
And my north american friends….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc3OnSQc48s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRuCPS_-_IA
seriously, why do you push meaningful conversation down the page with your spam?
It will be epic! If the libtarded never Trumpers don’t get their way and remove Trump, then Trump will have 3-7 years to play with them! Payback could be a bitch! Should prove to be very entertaining.
Democrats need a slap,
Democrat political turds need one to the head
Nail,
I thought that was one to the chest and then one to the forehead.
That resistance crap goes both ways
What are you doing up so late old man? Oh ya it’s a lot earlier for you derrrr. Swim yer ass over here and help me cut wood! I have a free cabin and supplies for you. It aint the Hilton but it is doable. Sell yer shit there you can get it replaced here. The funny thing is… it’s true!
Yea, ya need real money to replace the tools ive collected over the past few years, could never get what i paid for any of it, and could never replace even a fraction of it for what id get, am more likely to fig in and be a total pain in the ass for the left if anything
I wonder if the people of NY are aware of how much taxpayer money this man has squandered with his rabid personal progressive attacks on the president of the United States. It is flaming illegal what this man is doing using tax dollars for partisan political attacks on POTUS.
There are thousands of deep state operatives working at the state level to overthrow our republic. I hope patriots are taking names.
Cross check the lawyers he uses for attacks against Trump, expert witnesses, and the judges selected to hear his Trump attack cases. You will see definite patterns.
names mean little without addresses!
And they all have addresses, ever read Bracken?
No but if it has the current addresses of these fucks, I would like to know….
Few jurists can argue with Marshall’s statement of principle near the end of his opinion, “that a law repugnant to the constitution is void, and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.”
Marbury vs Madison…..
You need to read Matt Brackens Enemies series, you will be wondering if TPTB read it and are using a combination of that and Atlas shrugged as a roadmap, just cant make this shit up
Modern day National Socialists (Nazis), led by the utterly vile Cuomo
And dems try to label the republicans as the party of NO? This piece of crap has no business anyplace in the FBI.s investigation. Mueller is suspect also. The FBI has no credibility.
Purge or die, Trump.
Smartest post this time around ‘Him’. If Trump doesn’t act and very decisively and without mercy…. he’s doomed to fail.
best politicians money can buy
New York is losing population as people flee from the high tax rates. The Attorney General’s office should not be used as a tax-financed platform.