Worth recalling Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre undermining the rule of law and DOJ independence; we have hardly advanced from that. Indeed, Trump is promising its return. https://t.co/KYprXck79l — Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻 (@AWeissmann_) October 21, 2023 Trump came close in the post-election period. He was going to fire the whole top layer of the DOJ and put in that coup-plotting toady Jeffrey Clark in as Attorney General in order to get the department to back his play to overturn the election. He was talked out of it when the White House lawyers convinced him that that entire executive team in the department would leave and it would affect his public standing. He would not take that advice today.He’s learned by now that there is no price to pay for maximalism. Next time, he won’t hesitate.