Former DOJ prosecutors form new group to take on cases they say the current DOJ won’t

A new nonprofit called the Rule of Law Project has formed to pursue misconduct cases its organizers believe the Trump administration's Justice Department is neglecting. Led by Brad Adams, who spent two decades at Human Rights Watch, the nonpartisan group brings together ex-federal prosecutors and human rights lawyers. Private donors, whom it has not named, are paying for the work, according to MS NOW.

Lacking subpoena power, the group plans to collect evidence and witness accounts, then assemble case files ready for prosecution and give them to local or state authorities, or to a later federal administration more inclined to act. Mark Blumberg, who worked nearly 30 years in the department's Civil Rights Division, will head the investigators. Targets include officials suspected of profiting from their posts and immigration agents accused of excessive force. DOJ officials reject the idea that they ignore possible crimes, saying each matter is judged individually.

MS NOW reports the FBI taped Tom Homan taking $50,000 in cash, which he denies; the case went nowhere. The department also declined civil rights inquiries into ICE shootings of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine and Renée Good in Minneapolis.

Summarized by PolitiKool from MS NOW’s reporting. Read the full story at MS NOW →