Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, is demanding information about the resignation of U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert, who stepped down while investigating former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
On Sunday’s edition of State of the Union, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer accused President Donald Trump of fostering a danger to democratic norms by urging the Department of Justice to bring legal actions against political opponents such as New York Attorney General Letitia James. Schumer said these demands threaten the DOJ’s role as a neutral civil service and argued that turning it into an arm of political retribution is the “path to a dictatorship.”
The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division filed lawsuits against the states of Oregon and Maine and their Secretaries of State for failing to provide information relating to voter roll records.