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White House Abruptly Fires Career Justice Department Prosecutors

edited April 1 in Off-Topic
"Justice Department political appointees typically turn over with a new administration, but rank-and-file career prosecutors remain with the department across presidential administrations and have civil service protections designed to shield them from termination for political reasons. The breadth of terminations this year far outpaces the turnover typically seen inside the Justice Department."

"Shortly after the Trump administration took over in January, the Justice Department fired more than a dozen employees who worked on the criminal cases against Trump, which the department abandoned in light of his electoral victory. Days later, then-acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove ordered the firings of a group of prosecutors who were involved in the cases against the more than 1,500 people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot."

The integrity of our legal system and the independence of DOJ requires that laws are enforced impartially, which cannot happen when the White House fires career prosecutors to advance a political agenda,” said Stacey Young, a former Justice Department lawyer and founder of Justice Connection, a network of department alumni that works to support employees."


Comment: Lawless administration illegally fires career prosecutors to avoid being held accountable for their criminal activities.

https://apnews.com/article/prosecutor-firings-justice-department-white-house-25226702173e7b0aa86633d6c471c37e

Comments

  • All part of the coup.

    Will this country recover, ever? Assuming the Orange Creature allows free and fair elections? Joe Stalin: "It doesn't matter who votes. It matters who counts the votes."
  • edited April 3
    Will this country recover, ever?

    About half of the county and one of its two political parties are indefinitely trapped in a cult due to their own stoopidity, zest for power and personal prejudices.

    We are pushing 70 and expect to be reasonably sane until maybe 85-90.

    So our answer (honestly) is, no, at least not in our reasonably sane lifetimes.
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