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Rep. Sam Liccardo (D-Calif.), a erstwhile prosecutor, said Attorney General Pam Bondi is “undermining” the “fundamental nonrecreational ethic” astatine the Justice Department that says the department's prosecutors are meant to “do justice.”
In an interrogation connected NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday,” anchor Chris Stirewalt asked the California Democrat astir reports that the Department of Justice (DOJ) is “getting escaped of prosecutors that don’t privation to instrumentality the hard enactment connected immigration” that is embraced by Bondi and the Trump administration.
Liccardo archetypal blasted the medication for deporting radical accused of being pack members without granting them owed process, saying, “It’s not conscionable my idea. It's really successful the Constitution, and it's a beauteous bully idea.”
He past expressed interest astir the effect Bondi’s moves volition person down the line.
“As a prosecutor, dissimilar different lawyers, you person this opportunity, not simply to service a lawsuit and beryllium loyal to that client, but really to bash justice. That's wherefore truthful galore prosecutors emotion what they do,” helium said.
“What we're seeing from Bondi successful this administration, not dissimilar what we're seeing successful a batch of aspects of this administration, is undermining that cardinal nonrecreational ethic that national prosecutors are determination to bash justice,” Liccardo continued. “They're determination to archer the tribunal the information astatine each times. That means you crook implicit exculpatory evidence. It means you disregard cases if you don't person the grounds to prosecute.”
“And what we're seeing is wholly undermining that, I think, for different generation. That's going to beryllium precise detrimental to our country,” helium added.
Asked what proposal helium would springiness to prosecutors who don’t cognize however to proceed successful their jobs, Liccardo said, “Do everything that your nonrecreational ethic requires you to do, that your conscience requires you to do, and successful the meantime, look for different job.”
