Trump’s Unparalleled War on a Pillar of Society: Law Enforcement<br />“It’s one thing for the president to criticize political appointees — although it is quite odd for him to criticize his own political appointees,” said Alan Rozenshtein, a lawyer who left the Justice Department’s national security division in April<br />and now teaches at the University of Minnesota law school.<br />“Until recently, people in the department were in raised eyebrow mode,” said Sharon McGowan, a former principal deputy chief of the<br />appellate section of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department who left soon after the new administration took over.<br />They said the memo, drafted by Republicans led by Representative Devin Nunes of California, the Intelligence Committee chairman,<br />and declassified by Mr. Trump, raised serious and legitimate questions about the way the F. B.I.<br />With a special counsel investigating whether his campaign collaborated with Russia in 2016<br />and whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice in 2017, the president has engaged in a scorched-earth assault on the pillars of the criminal justice system in a way that no other occupant of the White House has done.
