The deputy attorney general was trying to demonstrate to everybody in the Department of Justice there's a new sheriff in town, and that's Donald Trump and the Department of Justice no longer has any independence at all in executing the criminal law enforcement function.
Raskin comments on the implications of the new deputy attorney general's actions under the Trump administration.
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