Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) urged in a current interview that the Division of Justice (DOJ) employees is fearful it should turn into a “law firm” for President-elect Trump throughout his second stint within the White Home.
His declare got here shortly after Trump tapped former Florida Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi to guide the DOJ following former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) withdrawal from consideration.
“So, she’s actually presiding over the forms,” Raskin, the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, told MSNBC’s “Alex Wagner Tonight” in an interview Thursday. “That’s the place she would be the key transmission belt between Donald Trump’s orders after which making the forms transfer.”
“That, of course, is what everybody at the Department of Justice is so afraid of, that there will be a wholesale abandonment of the law and Constitution and it will basically become like the Donald Trump law firm,” he added.
Gaetz halted his quest to be the nation’s prime prosecutor on Thursday, after dealing with an uphill climb to safe sufficient votes within the Senate to get confirmed. Hours later, Trump introduced Bondi, who served as Florida’s legal professional basic from 2011 to 2019, as his subsequent choose.
Raskin, a vocal Trump critic, stated that if Bondi finally ends up getting confirmed for the publish, she could be tasked with defending Trump’s marketing campaign promise to deport hundreds of thousands of migrants.
Trump has repeatedly promised to hold out the “largest deportation effort in American history.”
“So, she would obviously be the chief lawyer in charge of that operation and defending it against everybody suing, presuming that it’s done in the way they’ve done things in the past, which is running completely roughshod over people’s civil rights and civil liberties and what the law does,” Raskin stated.
Earlier than profitable the presidential election, Trump informed podcast host Joe Rogan in an interview final month that one among his “biggest” errors was choosing disloyal folks to serve throughout his first administration.
“The biggest mistake I made was I picked some people. I picked some great people, you know, but you don’t think about that. I picked some people that I shouldn’t have picked,” he stated on the time.
