The United States Department of Justice announced on Monday the dismissal of several of their career lawyers for having participated in investigations against the current US president, Donald Trump. Specifically, for collaborating with the special prosecutor Jack Smith, who led to the imputation of the Republican tycoon for having taken classified documents of the White House and for his relationship with the assault on the Capitol of January 6, 2021 of the supporters of the now president for Revert the results of the 2020 elections, indicates The Washington Post.
“Today, the functions attorney general James Mchenry has fired several positions from the Department of Justice who played an important role in the prosecution of President Trump,” said a spokesman for the Department of Justice cited by the American television network NBC. “In view of their actions, The acting attorney general does not trust these people to help apply the president’s orders faithfully to end the instrumentalization of the government, “he added.
The total number of dismissed personnel has not been facilitated, but a source of the measure, cited by the NBC channel, has specified that these are the prosecutors Molly Gaston, J.P. Cooney, Anne McNamara y Mary Dohrmann. All federal career officials, so they cannot cease directly. First they must receive a notice and then they must be able to hire lawyers to formally resort to any sanctioning process that implies the loss of their jobs.
The news is announced on the same day that, according to the CNN chain, the Department of Justice has launched an investigation against prosecutors who were at the forefront of criminal cases against those accused of the attack on the Capitol of January 6, 2021. The former Joyce Vance has described as “simply unacceptable” says goodbye to prosecutors only for the cases they have worked on. “It goes against the rule of law. It goes against democracy,” he argued in statements to the NBC.
Former General Merrick Garland announced Jack Smith as a special prosecutor in charge of Trump’s investigation in November 2022. According to The Washington Postthis created a team of at least 40 lawyers. The new president of the United States ended up charged in both cases, but Smith gave the cases for completed after the Republican leader won the November elections, hosting guidelines that prohibit processing a president in office. Many of those lawyers returned to their positions in the Department of Justice as soon as the processes were dismissed.
