Home Democrats require answers to the DOJ move to release former Special Advisor Officers
Home Democrats require answers regarding the move of the Ministry of Justice this week to light More than a dozen officials involved in the investigation of former special advisor Jack Smith, claiming that the action was in the “complete contradiction” of President Trump’s effort to keep the “merit system” for government employees.
Member of the Jamie Rskin Justice Committee, D-md, and a member of the Gerald Connolly House Committee, D-MA., Wrote a letter to acting Chief Lawyer James Mchenry Tuesday, received from Fox News.
“We write to you with alarm and deep concern about reports on administration that deals with a broad summary summary of shooting and inadvertent diverting of excellent career prosecutors and federal agents across the Ministry of Justice (DOJ),” they wrote. “This attack against effective Civil Servants of the DOJ began within a few hours of the inauguration of President Donald Trump, in a complete contradiction of the president’s repeated promise to maintain a hiring system based on merit.”
The seal for the Ministry of Justice was photographed in Washington on November 18, 2022. The Ministry of Justice has announced three arrests in a complex stolen identity scheme, which officials say that it brings a huge income for the North Korean government, including for its weapon program. (AP Photo/Andrew Hardik)
Rskin and Connolly added that officials “worked hard to defend the rule of the law removed from their positions without any evaluation – the less any negative assessment – their work.”
Mchenry fired more than a dozen key officials on Smith’s team on Monday, who worked on the president’s processing, saying that they could not be trusted in the “faithful implementation of the president’s agenda”.
Fox News Digital first reported the news on Monday.
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Raskin and Connolly claimed that officials had terminated on Monday “part of experts, non -political labor in charge of protecting our national security and public security.”
Representative Jamie Rskin, Democrat of Maryland and a ranked member of the Home Justice Committee. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“They were rented and promoted on the basis of their professional merit and excellence,” they wrote, adding that “many of them have a decade of experience under their belt and have served, promoted and received awards from the Presidential Administrations of both major political parties, including the first President Trump’s administration. ”
Democrats claimed that Mchenry removed them from their posts “regardless of their shown competences, their recognized achievements or dedicated service to the Department, in some cases they moved them to areas that are outside their legal expertise.”
“By removing them from their views in this hectic and unproportionate way, you have probably violated many years of federal laws,” they wrote, accusing Mchenry of “referring to students of the rights who have applied, interviewed and received offers from the department based on their demonstrated academic achievements and their commitment to the public service. ”
Democrats argued that the impression was “abolishing the job of offering to summer trainees and lawyers at the beginning of the programs of the lawyer’s lawyer, a highly competitive 72-year employment program that receives applications from students in hundreds of law schools across the country.”
Member of the House Supervision Committee, Rev. Gerry Connolly, r-ma. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
“We have also received disturbing reports that appear that the White House staff play a significant role in these employment decisions and examines LinkedIn and other career civil servants to determine their personal political inclination,” Rskin and Connolly wrote. “Together, your actions cause significant concerns that you are determined to fulfill the lines of the DOJ -A FBI career employees chosen for personal loyalty or political services provided by President Trump.”
Rskin and Connolly require an impression to provide them with a list of names of officials assigned or abolished; And to provide any communication between the impression of the White House from the date of inauguration regarding the content of the personal accounts of the social media of employees or the applicant in a career.
Raskin and Connolly sought information by February 11 at 5:00 pm
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Their letter comes after Mchenry conveyed a letter to each official on Monday, informing them about their termination, an official of the Ministry of Justice exclusively told Fox News Digital. It is unclear how many officials received that letter. The names of individuals were not immediately published.
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“State Attorney James Mchenry has abolished the employment of numerous Doy officials who have played a significant role in the process of prosecuting President Trump,” the Digital Digital Officer told Fox News. “In the light of his actions, the acting lawyer does not trust these officials to help in the faithful implementation of the president’s agenda.”
This action is “in accordance with the mission of the Government’s weapon end,” said Fox News Digital officer.
The Ministry of Justice did not immediately respond to the Fox News Digital request for comment.
