Citing “serious concerns” that the Justice Department is “ignoring its founding principles,” a group of former Chicago federal prosecutors sent an email this week to hundreds of former colleagues, hoping to gauge their interest in taking non-partisan, “tangible action.”
The message’s 14 signatories include three former US attorneys for the Northern District of Illinois: Scott Lassar, Dan Webb, and Patrick Fitzgerald.
“As lawyers who cherish the role DOJ should play in our criminal justice system, we feel compelled to speak and act against the troubling events underway at the Department, and we invite you to participate in those efforts,” reads ...
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