Carrie Johnson
speaker
1,251 appearances
127 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 4 Sep
Carrie Johnson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Jack Smith fielded questions about his work building criminal cases against now-President Donald Trump over Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
and his alleged refusal to turn over secret documents to the FBI.
Smith told lawmakers the election case was built on Republicans who put their allegiance to the country before their political party, and that several state and federal officials would have been witnesses for the prosecution.
The Justice Department dropped both cases against Trump after last year's election, following a long policy that the sitting president cannot be prosecuted.
Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.
Oh, happy to do it.
More than 5,000 workers have left the Justice Department this year by some estimates.
That includes the acting director of the FBI and many of the other top FBI officials.
At the Justice Department, the pardon attorney is gone.
The ethics advisor is gone.
Most of the prosecutors who took on public corruption are gone, as well as people who worked on cases involving the Capitol riot nearly five years ago.
And at the Civil Rights Division, nearly three out of four lawyers are gone.
The first thing to say is that there have been a lot of mistakes, misstatements of law, like in a big Texas redistricting case.
A Trump-appointed judge says the DOJ civil rights letter in that case contains so many factual, legal, and typographical errors that even lawyers working for the Texas Attorney General, allies of President Trump, called the letter legally unsound, ham-fisted, and a mess.
Then there are these alleged misrepresentations to courts in deportation cases.
In D.C., Judge Jeb Boasberg is demanding to hear from the Justice Department about whether lawyers intentionally flouted his order this year to turn planes around carrying Venezuelan migrants.
Erez Ruveni spent 15 years at the DOJ.
He later blew the whistle on what he saw as misconduct in immigration cases.
Here's what he told me this year.
The attorney general has called Rivani a disgruntled employee and a leaker.
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