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'Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz asked members of Congress Thursday to upgrade his authority and allow him to investigate allegations of professional misconduct involving government lawyers who are involved in official investigations, providing legal advice, and conducting litigation.
He told members of the House Appropriation Committee’s Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies that the IG has the jurisdiction to review allegations of misconduct by non-attorneys in the DOJ, but not the ability to investigate misconduct by department attorneys, including federal prosecutors, when they are acting as lawyers.'
More and more DOJ lawyers have been exposed for perpetrating judicial / prosecutorial misconduct lately, and the DOJ IG is asking Congress for the authority to do something about it.
During the failed coup attempt against Trump, during the trial against J6 protestors, and more recently in the DOJ's attempt to send a US citizen to proson for sharing a humorous mene in 2016, for example, DOJ lawyers were found to have violated the 5th Amendment by withholding exculpatory evidence from defendents' defense teams.
This predatory prosecutorial act is illegal and could (should) result in the disbarrment of these DOJ attornies.
DOJ IG Horowitz is seeking the authority to investigate DOJ lawyers in cases of suspected judicial misconduct, stating transparency should be a necessity.
He told members of the House Appropriation Committee’s Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies that the IG has the jurisdiction to review allegations of misconduct by non-attorneys in the DOJ, but not the ability to investigate misconduct by department attorneys, including federal prosecutors, when they are acting as lawyers.'
More and more DOJ lawyers have been exposed for perpetrating judicial / prosecutorial misconduct lately, and the DOJ IG is asking Congress for the authority to do something about it.
During the failed coup attempt against Trump, during the trial against J6 protestors, and more recently in the DOJ's attempt to send a US citizen to proson for sharing a humorous mene in 2016, for example, DOJ lawyers were found to have violated the 5th Amendment by withholding exculpatory evidence from defendents' defense teams.
This predatory prosecutorial act is illegal and could (should) result in the disbarrment of these DOJ attornies.
DOJ IG Horowitz is seeking the authority to investigate DOJ lawyers in cases of suspected judicial misconduct, stating transparency should be a necessity.
