Harry Litman - The Rot of DOJ Spreads
The Department of Justice is now awash in the corrupt abuse of federal prosecutorial power.
In just a matter of weeks, the newly installed Trump appointees have repeatedly undertaken conduct that violates the core principles of justice that have driven the Department’s mission throughout our lifetimes. Their most ardent goal is to humiliate and exact retribution against the career professionals who worked the prosecutions of either Donald Trump or the January 6 insurrectionists. Separately, they have harnessed Department power as a tool for hounding Democrats and advancing Trump’s political interests.
Simply put, they are ruining the place. And they are destroying the morale and sense of mission that have been the chief reward for the public servants who have proudly served there for decades.
The episode involving the dismissal of charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams for wholly improper reasons, which prompted a wave of resignations of some of the Department’s best and most qualified prosecutors, was the canary in the coal mine. The DOJ is the mine itself, and much of it is now suffocating, even as the country’s attention is captivated by other domestic and international outrages.
https://harrylitman.substack.com/p/the-rot-of-doj-spreads
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