In his first term, Trump ramped up pressure on the DOJ, eroding its independence from White House political control. He is now saying he will throw that effort into overdrive if he returns to power. The significance of Trump's vow to 'go after' Biden:
46th and current president of the United StatesWhen Donald Trump responded to his latest indictment by promising to appoint a special prosecutor if he’s reelected to “go after” President Joe Biden and his family, he signaled that a second Trump term would fully jettison the post-Watergate norm of Justice Department independence.
Trump’s promise fits into a larger movement on the right to gut the FBI, overhaul a Justice Department conservatives claim has been “weaponized” against them and abandon the norm — which many Republicans view as a facade — that the department should operate independently from the president. Like other conservatives, Clark adheres to the so-called unitary executive theory, which holds that the president of the United States has the power to directly control the entire federal bureaucracy and Congress cannot fracture that control by giving some officials independent decision-making authority.
Vought wrote in his statement that the Justice Department was “ground zero for the weaponization of the government against the American people.” He added, “Conservatives are waking up to the fact that federal law enforcement is weaponized against them and as a result are embracing paradigm-shifting policies to reverse that trend.”
As the Republican Party has morphed in response to Trump’s influence, his attacks on federal law enforcement — which trace back to the early Russia investigation in 2017, the backlash to his firing of then-FBI Director James Comey and the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel — have become enmeshed in the ideology of his supporters.
The most powerful conservative think tanks are working on plans that would go far beyond “reforming” the FBI, even though its Senate-confirmed directors in the modern era have all been Republicans. They want to rip it up and start again.
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