{"id":12534,"date":"2018-05-22T19:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/investigating-the-investigators-trump-continues-his-assault-on-independent-justice\/"},"modified":"2018-05-22T19:00:03","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T23:00:03","slug":"investigating-the-investigators-trump-continues-his-assault-on-independent-justice","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/investigating-the-investigators-trump-continues-his-assault-on-independent-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigating the Investigators: Trump Continues His Assault on Independent Justice"},"template":"","class_list":["post-12534","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"If the president and his enablers are permitted to succeed in their campaign to politicize American justice, it will cease to be justice at all.","featured_image":5240,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8577}"],"related_issues":[143,149,2066,2082],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"They hope we\u2019ll all grow weary and stop paying attention. Nothing would please them more than seeing Americans just give up on democracy, our laws, and our Constitution. The hard truth is that millions already have done just that.\r\n\r\nWith every day, Donald Trump and his enablers \u2013 in the executive and judicial branches, on Capitol Hill, and the right-wing media \u2013 are undermining the rule of law and taking America further down the road to autocracy. Their relentless work has made routine things that just a few months ago would have been unthinkable.\r\n\r\nConsider Monday. Suppose that during an FBI and Justice Department investigation of foreign meddling on his behalf in the 2012 election, Barack Obama had summoned his deputy attorney general (whom he\u2019d already threatened to fire) to the White House to demand an investigation of the investigators. Suppose Obama had also demanded that the FBI and the intelligence community reveal the identity of a confidential informant who had assisted the original investigation and share confidential details of the investigation with Obama\u2019s chief of staff and closest allies in Congress.\r\n\r\nIn that scenario, the Republican congressional leadership would have had an impeachment resolution on the House floor in a matter of hours and Fox News would have been prodding them to move faster. Obama would have been assailed, and rightfully so, for interfering in a serious inquiry into his own conduct and that of his closest confidants.\r\n\r\nBut when Trump strong-armed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray on Monday into ordering a Justice Department\u2019s inspector general\u2019s review of Special Counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation of the Trump campaign and Russian involvement in the 2016 election, GOP leaders applauded. And they were positively delighted when Rosenstein agreed under pressure to share details about the investigation \u2013 no doubt including the identity and background of that confidential informant \u2013 with the White House and Trump loyalists in Congress.\r\n\r\nThink of the outrage and the cries of partisan interference emanating from those same Republicans when they learned during the 2016 campaign of a brief and apparently inconsequential meeting between Bill Clinton, by then out of the White House for 15-plus years, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch.\r\n\r\nMeanwhile, the rest of us are supposed to be relieved that Rosenstein\u2019s agreement to an inspector general\u2019s review kept the president from ordering the appointment of a second special counsel to handle the investigation of the investigation. On Tuesday, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, R-NC, reiterated the caucus\u2019 demand for another special counsel.\r\n\r\nThere is nary a shred of evidence that Mueller and company have done anything that needs investigating and plenty of evidence that they\u2019re on the trail of a fundamental foreign threat to our system of government. They\u2019ve secured guilty pleas from members of Trump\u2019s campaign team and they \u2013 or enterprising journalists \u2013 have uncovered evidence that no less than Donald Trump Jr. was eager to secure help from foreign governments (illegal!) as he worked to help his father win the White House. The president sees their progress as a threat, and so he and his friends are determined to stop it.\r\n\r\nBeginning four decades ago, in the aftermath of the Watergate affair and the resignation of President Nixon, a parade of presidents and their attorneys general have taken care to maintain a wall between the White House and the Justice Department. \u201cThey recognized that members of the FBI and Justice Department owe ultimate allegiance to the Constitution and laws and must be allowed to operate without presidential interference in prosecutorial decisions,\u201d legal scholar and former Justice Department lawyer William Yeomans observed in an essay for Politico<\/a> published on Tuesday.\r\n\r\nBrick-by-brick, Trump and company are demolishing that barrier. If they\u2019re permitted to succeed in their campaign to politicize American justice, it will cease to be justice at all.\r\n\r\n###"}}]},"yoast_head":"\nInvestigating the Investigators: Trump Continues His Assault on Independent Justice - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/investigating-the-investigators-trump-continues-his-assault-on-independent-justice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Investigating the Investigators: Trump Continues His Assault on Independent Justice\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/fr\/articles\/investigating-the-investigators-trump-continues-his-assault-on-independent-justice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/investigating-the-investigators-trump-continues-his-assault-on-independent-justice\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/investigating-the-investigators-trump-continues-his-assault-on-independent-justice\/\",\"name\":\"Investigating the Investigators: Trump Continues His Assault on Independent Justice - 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