House Democrats demand answers on DOJ's move to fire former special counsel officials
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House Democrats are demanding answers on the Justice Department’s move this week to fire more than a dozen officials involved in former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation, arguing the action was in “complete contradiction" of President Trump’s effort to keep a “merit-based system" for government employees.
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"We write to you with alarm and profound concern about reports of the administration engaging in the widespread summary firing and involuntary reassignment of excellent career prosecutors and federal agents throughout the Department of Justice (DOJ)," they wrote. "This onslaught against effective DOJ civil servants began within hours of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, in complete contradiction of the president’s repeated pledges to maintain a merit-based system for government employment."
Raskin and Connolly added that the officials worked "strenuously to defend the rule of law have been removed from their positions without any evaluation—much less any negative evaluation—of their work."
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