Trump Installs Top Justice Dept. Official at Library of Congress, Prompting a Standoff
www.nytimes.com
The president named Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, as the acting librarian. But staff members refused access to two department officials he chose for key roles at Congress’s main research arm.

Staff members at the Library of Congress denied access on Monday to two Justice Department officials who had been tapped for top positions there as part of a shake-up initiated by President Trump, according to two people familiar with the situation

The Library of Congress is under congressional control, and Trump doesn’t have the power to replace key officials there until their term expires.

  • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
    106·
    2 days ago

    The magic here is that the Library of Congress has the Capitol Police backing them, and they answer to Congress, not the President.

    • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      11 hours ago

      Vanishingly little of the hordes of little hands who immediately crumbled to Trump actually answer to him. And those that do are still supposed to uphold the constitution first and foremost.

      Resistance has always been an option, Americans are just almost unanimously choosing not to exercise it.