Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are launching a review Friday of the ouster of federal prosecutor Erik Siebert , a week after he resigned as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, and a day after former FBI Director James Comey was indicted on charges filed in Alexandria, Virginia. Prosecutors had expressed concern about Siebert's possible ouster over his failure to bring a case against New York Attorney General Letitia James.

President Trump, in a social media post after Siebert's departure from the office, had pressed Attorney General Pam Bondi about prosecutions against other political foes, Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California and former FBI Director James Comey, calling them "guilty as hell."

Mr. Trump praised one of his own former defense lawy

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