The Democrats of the US House of Representatives.

By Sarah N. Lynch

Washington (Reuters) – Two key democrats in the House of Representatives of the United States Representatives demanded more information after the Trump administration bruised the career prosecutors who investigated President Donald Trump, and reassigned others from Your positions to a “Santuary City” working group recently created.

In a letter to the Interim Attorney General James Mchenry, the Judicial Committee of the House of Representatives, Democrat Jamie Rankin and the House Supervision Ranking, the Democrat, Gerald Connolly, demanded a list of all employees of the Department of Justice affected and an explanation of why they were reallocated or fired.

“We wrote with alarm and deep concern for the reports of the administration that participates in the generalized summary dismissal and involuntary reallocation of excellent career prosecutors and federal agents throughout the Department of Justice,” they wrote.

“This attack against the effective public officials of the Department of Justice began within a few hours of the inauguration of President Donald Trump, in total contradiction of the president’s repeated commitments to maintain a system based on the merit for the employment of the Government,” they wrote , adding that the staff moves “the federal federal federal probably violated. Laws.”

A spokesman for the Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comments.

The appointed politicians of Trump have sown chaos within the Department of Justice during their first week in office.

On Monday, the interim attorney general dismissed more than a dozen career prosecutors who worked in the two criminal investigations of the special lawyer Jack Smith about Trump’s retention of classified records and their efforts to subvert the presidential elections.

Another 20 officials of his career, including the main public integrity prosecutor and the senior ethics official of his career, have also been eliminated from their positions and were ordered to inform a “Santuary City” working group recently created.

One of those officials, the head of the Corey Amundson Public Integrity Section, resigned from the department on Monday.

Meanwhile, the best federal prosecutor appointed by Trump in Washington also opened an internal review on Monday on the use of a serious crime obstruction charge in the prosecutions of people accused of participating in the attack of January 6, 2021 against Capitol of the United States, according to a source familiar with the matter.

In addition to seeking detailed information about all impacted department of Justice, Raskin and Connolly also demanded to know if the White House and the Department of Justice have communicated about the content of the social media accounts of professional employees and their political inclinations .

(Sarah N. Lynch report; Chizu Nomiyama edition)