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The Thursday Night Massacre: Why Top Prosecutors Resigned Rather Than Drop This Case

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Gabe Fleisher
Feb 20, 2025
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​​Danielle Sassoon and Hagan Scotten wouldn’t be anyone’s idea of anti-Trump “Resistance” warriors.

Sassoon is a Harvard-and-Yale-trained member of the Federalist Society, a conservative legal group, and a former clerk for the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who anchored the Supreme Court’s conservative wing for decades.

Danielle Sassoon

Scotten, who served t…

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