• “Totally, completely unprecedented”: Convicted felon and President Donald Trump has launched an ongoing attack on the criminal justice system. Under the Constitution, the Justice Department was designed to be able to impartially investigate everyone. Trump’s actions—appointing his personal lawyers to top department positions, pardoning the criminal records of Jan. 6 rioters, attacking political enemies, and firing career prosecutors—suggest he believes the department’s mission is to carry out his orders. Bruce Fein, who served in the Justice Department under Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan, says Trump is trying to make the department a political arm of the White House. Minus two points for the eradication of checks and balances. -2 [Post] • No consensus: Though

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