Democrats in the Judicial Committee of the Senate are launching an investigation on Friday on the lawyers and employees of the Department of Justice that investigated President Trump’s efforts to cancel the Choice of 2020 and its management of classified records.
In a letter obtained by CBS News, the Panel Democrats ask the Attorney General Pam Bondi to deliver records about at least 20 fires of the personnel of the Department of Justice last month.
The senators said they were looking for information about justification “for any of these actions of draconian personnel”, in reference to the terminations. They said of the leaders of the Department of Justice, “the administrative staff of the dismissal career that lacks decision -making authority because we were doing their job is an abuse of less but pernicious power.”
In their letter to Bondi, they said that those who lost their work were not only prosecutors, but included “legal assistants, financial personnel, administrative support personnel and seafood of the United States.”
The Fire Department of Justice staff They were identified by the agencies called “Weapon Working Group” that Bondi Established as one of his first priorities after it was confirmed earlier this year, a source told CBS News.
In their investigation of the Department of Justice, Senate Democrats are asking the agency to deliver the lists of employees that have been fires since January 21 and to obtain details about the “criteria” for the shots.
The letter demands responses from the department before Friday, September 12.
Panel Democrats also did not have time giving time to respond to accusations or their endings.
“The dismissed since January are patriots and public servants,” says the letter. “His dismissal of his service without prior notice and without cause is a serious injustice that mocks the ideal or non -partisan government.
The Department of Justice did not promote requests for comments from CBS News about the accusations of Senate Democrats or shots.
The purge of employees of the Department of Justice, which also includes those who worked on investigations and prosecutions related to January 6, 2021, Capitol disturbanceIt began shortly after the second inauguration of Mr. Trump, when he installed a former defense lawyer on January 6, Ed Martin, as the main interim prosecutor in Washington, DC, has continued with Jeanine Pirro, the new DCUS lawyer.
Trump and his supporters have minimized the damage, injuries and trauma of the assault on the Capitol and have tried to reformulate the statements condemned as “political prisoners.” The convicted people in relation to the events on January 6 received forgives from Mr. Trump when he assumed the position for his second term.
“The supervision of the Congress of the Purge of unprecedented career employees of the Department of Justice is desperately needed,” said Stacey Young, Executive Director of Justice Connection, an organization that helps support the employees of the Department of Justice and Firefighters.
Young said that the employees of the Department of Justice qualified since the beginning of the Trump administration were fired “without prior notice and without following the other legal requirements under the Civil Service Reform Law.” He pointed out that those who worked for Smith were among the first to be fire.
“The employees of the Department of Justice should never be fired simply because they searched for their leadership to work in a disadvantic case by the president,” Young told CBS News.
