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Mon Nov 2, 2020, 01:20 PM Nov 2020

'Justice Is On The Ballot': DOJ Alums Say Trump Reelection Could Be 'Point Of No Return'

The Justice Department can’t take four more years of President Donald Trump.

Scores of former department officials from both political parties said that the severe damage inflicted by the president on the department and its components over the past four years will become permanent and irreversible if Trump wins a second term. The result, they said, would be a fundamental subjugation of the rule of law and the transformation of the department into an overtly political operation.

No president since Richard Nixon has had as much of a negative effect on the Justice Department as Trump. He fired one FBI director and is considering firing another. He pushed out his first attorney general and is engaging in a public campaign to pressure current Attorney General William Barr to investigate his chief political rival, Joe Biden, hinting that he might dismiss Barr if he doesn’t.



https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-trump-biden-election-politicization_n_5f7f1b71c5b6a9322e24604b

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