of at least two democrats on the house intelligence committee, aides, and family members. one was a minor. records of at least a dozen people tied to the committee were seized in 2017 and early 18, including those of representative adam schiff of california, then the panel s top democrat and now its chairman. times reporter katie benner shares a byline on this story. she is standing by to join us and a moment earlier this evening, congressman schiff spoke to rachel maddow on this network about the unprecedented and disturbing nature of all of it. this looks like a patent abuse of the department, yet another example of the president politicizing using the department of justice as a cudgel to go after his enemies. the first, most important norm post-watergate is the president of the united states does not get involved in particular cases at the justice department.
history. you released a statement tonight and you spoke with the times as well, calling on the inspector general, the independent inspector general inside the justice department to look into this, to investigate this, essentially, as potentially as the weaponization of law enforcement for political purposes. can you explain to our audience, to people hear this as kind of an extension of what they ve heard about going after reporters records, who may not necessarily grasp why this is a big deal, why this is something that hasn t happened before. why is it such a big deal? why would bit an unprecedented, or at least a very unusual thing to have records like this seized by a justice department? well, it s really norm within norm within norm of being broken here. the first, most important norm post-watergate is the president of the united states does not get involved in particularly cases at the justice department.
0 covering the beat. it s very much a place that looks like america, but that means it does tend to skew a little bit more to the right because while you have a lot of black and latino, latino people you also have a very strong a lot of people coming from the american south and west. aline cooper, a great reporter on this beat, thanks for making time tonight. i appreciate it. that is all in on this thursday night. the rachel maddow show starts right now. thank you, chris. thank you for joining me at this hour. we have thrown out the show, as we sometimes have to do, because we need to start tonight with some news that has just broken on the front page of the new york times. this is a big deal. i will tell you, we re about to speak with one of the reporters whose by lined on this story. we re also about to speak with one of the subjects of this story. but in all the time i have been in this business, i have never covered anything quite like this before. i have never read a
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Opinion: We need justice, not politics
March 9, 2021
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State s Attorney Richard J. Colangelo Jr.Erik Trautmann / Hearst Connecticut Media
Editor’s Note: The following is submitted by the Chief State’s Attorney and the 13 State’s Attorneys of Connecticut.
The administration of justice should not be political. Prosecutors must be guided by the evidence in a case and the applicable law, not by partisan, political considerations. Political pressure should never sway a prosecutor’s decision-making.
Political independence of the United States Department of Justice took center stage at last month’s confirmation hearing for Merrick Garland, President Joseph Biden’s nominee for attorney general, who was pressed by legislators about what is supposed to be a fundamental norm. Garland insisted that he would oppose any attempt by the White House to politicize the Justice Department, telling the Senate Judiciary Committee: “I am not the president’s lawyer;