On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump said he will fire all the remaining US attorneys who were appointed during Joe Biden’s presidency. He believes that the Department of Justice has become too political over the last four years. Trump said it’s time to “clean house” and get people to trust the justice system again. He thinks a fair justice system is important for America to succeed.
Trump shared his plans on social media and mentioned that this is the start of a new, fair era in the US legal system. He wrote, “The Department of Justice has been more politicized than ever. Therefore, I have instructed the termination of all remaining ‘Biden Era’ US Attorneys. We must clean house immediately, and restore confidence.”
Meanwhile, Denise Cheung, the main criminal prosecutor in Washington, DC, resigned after refusing to start a new grand jury investigation that she thought was too early. Cheung is a long-time official at the Department of Justice. She was asked to look into a funding decision made by the Environmental Protection Agency while Biden was president. The goal was to use the Department of Justice’s power to stop that funding.
In her resignation letter, Cheung explained that she was asked to check if a contract was wrongly awarded by an executive agency before Biden took office and to issue grand jury subpoenas for the investigation.
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