Justin Levitt, who served as deputy assistant attorney general in DOJ’s civil rights division during the Obama administration, said establishing those boundaries will be important for the new leadership to maintain its credibility in the department’s efforts.
“It is entirely proper for the White House to be consulting with DOJ leadership on broad institutional priorities,” said Levitt, who’s now a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. “But it’s 100 percent improper to be directing individual cases — something we saw way too much of in the last administration. But already the mandate has gone out that that is not something we’re going to see happen this time around.”
Source: The Hill
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