Barbara McQuade
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424 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 7 Feb
Barbara McQuade’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It is so profoundly wrong and it makes me not only upset and angry, but very sad.
I spent almost 20 years of my life working for the Department of Justice during a time when it was the North Star that you do not use federal prosecution to go after political rivals.
There is a provision in the
the Justice Department manual that says prosecutors may never consider partisan politics, political association, political party, political office, in making a charging decision.
And it seems that Pam Bondi is turning that on its head.
Now, it's a norm.
It's not a law.
But since Watergate, it has been –
crystal clear that that is the way that prosecutors conduct themselves.
And so to see it used as a weapon in response to false claims of weaponization is deeply disturbing, not only because of my devotion of my career there, but what it could do to Americans who might disagree with this president.
This is such a bastardization of the rule of law.
You know, there's a famous speech that Robert Jackson gave in the Great Hall of the Department of Justice in 1940.
He at the time was the Attorney General of the United States.
He, of course, would go on to become
a Supreme Court justice and chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials.
But one of the things he said in the speech entitled The Prosecutor, which is posted on the wall of many U.S.
attorney's offices, is the importance of not targeting individuals.
but of targeting crimes.
And so if a crime occurs, you investigate and you charge the people responsible.
But if you instead choose a person and then try to dig up whatever dirt you can on them, that is the opposite of the way that the tool is supposed to work.
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