Office of Legal Counsel

But basically it means that if you knew someone who knew someone who is in one of these groups that was just added by the president to the list, then you are an enemy combatant in an undeclared, what do they call it, non-international armed conflict.

That's the language they use in the Office of Legal Counsel memo.

And therefore, we can kill you as though you are on a battlefield, really based on intelligence that none of us can review.

Let's take a minute and talk about quints.

That's probably your most likely.

And while you're doing this, you're holding hearings.

You're holding hearings like crazy to find out, you know, determine whether this actually does count as murder, how it violates U.S. law, all the flaws in the OLC, Office of Legal Counsel opinion.

And also you're making that opinion public because you can now do that.

Well, apparently, DOJ is going back to the original understanding.

According to the Office of Legal Counsel, they issued an opinion that said if states do not report illegal immigrants, people unlawfully in the United States, to DHS, they may lose their food stamp funds, the TANF, right, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.

They may lose some of that.

They may also lose some of their supplemental security income programs if they don't comply with the government's desire to

know about these people in the country.

Legally.

Now, Assistant Attorney General T. Elliot Gazer, he's from the Department of the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel.

He said that Congress wrote through this requirement plainly.

Here's another name.

Y'all probably remember the Office of Legal Counsel with George W. Bush.

An attorney from that office named John, you why? Oh, he was one.

He was trying to put on the Supreme Court at one time.

So what do we go by?

The only authorities that actually govern this entire concept are two internal memos written by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel or the OLC.

One is known as the Dixon Memo, drafted during the Nixon era in 1973, and the other is the Moss Memo, written during the Clinton era in 2000.

Wait, let me get this straight.

But what about just filing the legal paperwork? What about the gavel? Right, the charging part.

You mentioned the supremacy clause blocks physical interference.

Does it also stop a local district attorney from just quietly convening a grand jury, presenting evidence, and filing an indictment for state-level perjury? Because local DAs definitely do not answer to the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel or their HR memos.

This is the state court wrinkle, and it is a legally untested, treacherous minefield.

He'd been a longtime State Department person and was hired.

She advised us that, in her view, she consulted with OLC, the Office of Legal Counsel, advised us that, in her view, the president had the power to appoint an acting director and that Mick Mulvaney was the acting director, and that we, the staff, therefore, accepted that advice and moved forward in that way.

If the general counsel had been a clinical appointee at the moment at which Rick Cordray resigned, that general counsel's term would have also ended.

And we would have had this sort of odd kind of vacuum rather than the continuity of a career person giving advice that everybody was comfortable following and that enabled us to move forward.

They continue to argue that the federal government changed the way it determines whether marijuana has an accepted medical use and that the new standard is legally flawed.

But DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel previously concluded that the DEA's older five-part test was too restrictive, newer approach everyone so when you put this all together everyone the pressure surrounding rescheduling right now is coming from several different directions from one angle you have the dea administrative process from another angle you have multiple federal lawsuits plus you have efforts in congress to stop implementation and now as marijuana moment reports you have a federal appeals court refusing to put the entire process on hold so that does not mean rescheduling is guaranteed though i would highly doubt it's not going to happen however there are still legal and administrative steps that still lie ahead but really when you look at it yesterday's ruling removes one potential roadblock and it allows the trump administration's rescheduling effort to continue moving forward while opponents fight their case in court and with the dea judge now reviewing the final record the next major development could be the recommendation the entire cannabis industry has indeed been waiting for and of Of course they have.

But that roadblock that was announced yesterday, that's massive.

That's huge.