Donald Trump’s Justice Department is under fire by a federal judge after uncovering “multiple employees … may have violated” local rules guaranteeing a right to a fair trial for so-called “healthcare shooter” Luigi Mangione.

U.S. District Court Judge Margaret Garnett wrote on Wednesday that Mangione documented several incidents in which members of the Southern District of New York made public statements that are in violation of Criminal Rule 23.1.

The judge shredded the DOJ, saying that she issued an order on “April 25, 2025, specifically identifying the strictures of this rule for counsel and directing the prosecution team to ensure that the highest levels of the Department of Justice, up to and including Attorney General Bondi, were aware of and understood they were bound by this Rule.”

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    12 hours ago

    Except Rittenhouse just fucking showed up to a police riot with a gun hoping to the chance to shoot black people and Luigi actually stood for something.

    I’m sure in their mind they’re the good guys, but here in reality those two are not exactly equivalents.

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      10 hours ago

      Except Luigi clearly isn’t the shooter. He looks nothing like the pictures, and the cops clearly planted the evidence.

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        My headcanon is that Luigi did plant his own evidence as a distraction in sympathy of the real shooter.

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      Reason I chose that human shitstain is because he was considered a hero and celebrity among MAGA. Yes, I agree with what you said.

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        I believe he, a teenager still green behind the ears, would have understood that he fucked up and be willing to repent, but he was bought up by fascist social media pundits pretty much straight away and decided to go along with it 100%.

        They contributed to making him the shitstain he is today. Even his parents iirc.