Opinion | 'I'm Haunted by What I Did' as a Lawyer in the Trump Justice Department

I’m Haunted by What I Did as a Lawyer in the Trump Justice Department
No matter our intentions, lawyers like me were complicit. We owe the country our honesty about what we saw — and should do in the future.
By Erica Newland
Dec. 20, 2020
 Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times
I was an attorney at the Justice Department when Donald Trump was elected president. I worked in the Office of Legal Counsel, which is where presidents turn for permission slips that say their executive orders and other contemplated actions are lawful. I joined the department during the Obama administration, as a career attorney whose work was supposed to be independent of politics.

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