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Dear Senators and Representatives: The Department of Justice’s stated mission is to “ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.” This essential function, which goes to the heart of public trust in the federal government, can be satisfied only when the Department operates free of political…
Similar legislation passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2007 by a vote of 14-2 Washington, DC — Today, Senators Sheldon Whitehouse, Kamala Harris, and Richard Blumenthal, and Representative Hakeem Jeffries proposed legislation to help restore the longstanding norm of Department of Justice (DOJ) independence. The Security…
In Solidarity with the African American Community on Juneteenth, Protect Democracy Endorses H.R. 40 To Create a Federal Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals Slave traders first brought enslaved Africans to what is now Florida in 1565. In 1619, Virginians imported enslaved Africans to Jamestown. From then…
We are former federal prosecutors. We served under both Republican and Democratic administrations at different levels of the federal system: as line attorneys, supervisors, special prosecutors, United States Attorneys, and senior officials at the Department of Justice. The offices in which we served were small, medium, and large; urban, suburban, and rural; and located in all parts of…
More than 1,000 former federal prosecutors who worked in Republican and Democratic administrations have signed on to a statement asserting special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s findings would have produced obstruction charges against President Trump — if he wasn’t currently President. Read the full article from the Washington…
On April 29, 2019, shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court denied cert in the case of former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Protect Democracy filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit explaining that President Trump’s pardon of Mr. Arpaio was unconstitutional…
On April 26, 2019, Protect Democracy and the other co-counsel for Plaintiffs filed a motion for summary judgment in El Paso County & Border Network for Human Rights v. President Trump et al. The Plaintiffs are asking the Court to issue an injunction to block the unlawful emergency…
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp made headlines last fall for his efforts as secretary of state to change election procedures to suppress likely Democratic voters—efforts designed to tilt the playing field in his own race for governor. Among other things, he oversaw a large-scale purge of the state’s voter rolls…
Media reports on April 12, 2019 that President Trump dangled a pardon for Kevin McAleenan, head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, should he end up in prison for violating U.S. immigration laws as the President encouraged him to do, reveal once again that Trump remains poised to…
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