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Justice Department 'staff revolt' brewing over Trump’s targeting of critics and protesters
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Alternet.org
A "potential staff revolt" is reportedly brewing in Donald Trump's Department of Justice, according to the New York Times, as staffers bristle against pushes from leadership to pursue cases against protesters and critics of the administration's deportation agenda.
Instead, they "have tried to refocus public attention on the aggressive tactics of demonstrators... [and] pushed prosecutors and the F.B.I.
to turn up the heat on critics of the immigration crackdown: politicians, protesters, even relatives of the victims."
According to the Times, this approach "has left the U.S. attorney’s office in Minneapolis, one of the most respected in the nation, in crisis."
Instead, they were pushed to investigate Good's background and connection to local activists, as well as her widowed partner, Becca Good.