An official said that President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday dismissed more than a dozen lawyers of the Justice Department who had brought two criminal cases against him, an official said, because to gain maximum control of the Republican department. Moves fast.
An official of the Justice Department said that the officials were fired after acting Attorney General James Mc Henry, who, the appointment of Trump, concluded that because of his key role in the legal action against the president, he was fired. They cannot be trusted. “
According to a copy of the Reuters’ elimination letter, McHenri termed Trump’s authority as chief executive under the US Constitution to justify the shootings.
Lawyers worked with Special Counselor Jack Smith, who led Trump’s two federal legalization that the department dropped after his November elections. Earlier this month, Smith resigned from the department.
The usual scattering action was taken, though according to tradition, the ranking and file prosecutors are present in the department of the presidential administration and are not punished for their involvement in sensitive investigations. The firing is immediately effective.
News of the firing came the same day that Washington’s top federal prosecutor and Trump appointed Ed Martin on January 6, 2021, about the use of a serious barrier charges against people accused of participating in 2021 Open the review. According to sources familiar with the matter, the US capital was attacked.
The US Supreme Court last year imposed a legal ban for the crime in a 6-3 verdict, which forced the prosecution to make the allegations in several cases.
Monday’s actions came when the Trump administration re -assigned senior officials of the career department, including Bradley Wayne Shimmer, a senior ethics official, and former chief of the Public Corruption Section, Corey Amidson, From their role.
Amandson, whose section provided advice to Smith’s prosecutors, announced his resignation on Monday.
The Department of Justice has taken steps to shake workforce before the US Senate’s Trump Attorney General’s nominated candidate Palm Bondi has already been voted. Bondi’s nomination will be voted on Wednesday by a Senate panel.
Smith, appointed by former Attorney General Merck Garland, brought matters in which Trump was accused of maintaining illegal documents in his Florida Social Club and for the 2020 elections. Trying to intervene in the certificate.
Trump requested not to be guilty for all allegations and argued that the legal system’s “weapons” is reflected.
After Trump’s election, Smith left both cases, and referring to a long -standing policy against legal action against the sitting president.
Many of those working in Smith cases have long been public corruption and national security prosecutors, who stayed in the department earlier this month to close their investigation.
Some content for this report has come from the Associate Press.
