https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/pam-bondi-fires-two-jan-225031625.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If fired for appropriately investigating the president or his allies, then this is a great degradation\u00a0of the rule of law. The U.S. cannot call itself a strong democracy when administrations can punish people for proper legal investigations. Future prosecutors and investigators will have to think twice before investigating any potential crimes by Trump or his friends.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“At least three federal prosecutors who worked on cases against\u00a0Jan. 6 rioters\u00a0were fired Friday by\u00a0the Justice Department, according to more than half a dozen current and former officials familiar with the dismissals.<\/p>\n
A copy of one of the dismissal letters seen by NBC News was signed by Attorney General Pam Bondi, notifying the recipient that they were \u201cremoved from federal service effective immediately.\u201d No reason for the removal was stated in the letter.”…”The Trump administration in late January\u00a0fired probationary federal prosecutors\u00a0who worked on Jan. 6 cases and prosecutors who worked on former\u00a0special counsel Jack Smith\u2019s investigation\u00a0into President Donald Trump. The administration also demoted some career prosecutors who worked on the\u00a0Capitol siege investigation.Probationary workers are either recent hires or have taken new positions.The firings on Friday, though, marked the first time that career prosecutors who had worked Jan. 6 cases and who were past their probationary period of federal employment had been fired.”<\/p>\n
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