The former Justice Dept. officials suggested alternative means of registering dissent and resisting inappropriate influence.
on Attorney General Bill Barr to resign Sunday after he intervened in the case of Roger Stone to reduce the recommended sentence of President Trump’s longtime friend and quasi-adviser. The former DOJ employees expressed outrage in an open letter at Barr’s intervention after Trump tweeted his disapproval of the nine-year sentence recommended by prosecutors in the case where Stone had been convicted of seven felonies. “Mr.
The former Justice Department employees, from both Democratic and Republican administrations, said Trump’s tweet and Barr’s subsequent intervention was counter to the established procedural norms of the DOJ. “The Department has a long-standing practice in which political appointees set broad policies that line prosecutors apply to individual cases. That practice exists to animate the constitutional principles regarding the even-handed application of the law,” the former Justice employees wrote.
The officials offered their support for the four prosecutors who resigned from the case.
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