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Leading House Democrats are demanding details from acting Attorney General James R. McHenry III about the role politics may have played in an abrupt shakeup of top officials at the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n

The inquiry from Reps. Jamie Raskin and Gerald Connolly<\/u><\/a> \u2013 the top Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform Committees, respectively \u2013 follows McHenry\u2019s recent decision to fire more than a dozen<\/u><\/a> prosecutors who worked on the Department\u2019s investigations into Donald Trump during the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

The Democrats also questioned the decision to rescind job offers and internship offers through the Attorney General\u2018s Honors Program.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe write to you with alarm and profound concern about reports of the administration engaging in the widespread summary firing and involuntary reassignment of excellent career prosecutors and federal agents throughout the Department of Justice,\u201d Raskin and Connolly wrote in their letter to McHenry. \u201cTaken together, your actions raise significant concern that you are determined to fill the ranks of the DOJ and FBI with career employees selected for the personal loyalty or political services they have rendered to President Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lawmakers are asking for names of all reassigned or terminated DOJ employees since the start of Trump\u2019s term last week, as well as details of communications with the White House related to their termination. Raskin and Connolly are also demanding information about efforts to review career employees\u2019 social media accounts, and the role that these employees\u2019 political opinions played in the decisions.<\/p>\n

Trump has repeatedly suggested he intends to root out political adversaries from the U.S. government. Democrats, in the minority in both the House and Senate, have little power to force the administration to comply with their requests for information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leading House Democrats are demanding details from acting Attorney General James R. McHenry III about the role politics may have played in an abrupt shakeup of top officials at the Department of Justice. The inquiry from Reps. Jamie Raskin and Gerald Connolly \u2013 the top Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}