prosecutions

Beyond that, DOJ's remarkable embrace of tainted prosecutors and selective prosecutions is best explained by its culture: Democratic and Republican DOJ leaders alike benefit long-term (including in their lucrative post-government careers) by coddling over-zealous and politically motivated fellow prosecutors, and then using superficial internal investigations to whitewash whatever happened.

Andrew Kreig: U.S. Charges of Alabama Corruption Tainted By Past Federal Misconduct Andrew Kreig 2010

The basic obstacle to prosecutions is political: many people are still deeply loyal to the relevant criminals because they were high-profile members of a recent Administration, and so prosecutions would set off a huge political firestorm.

Matthew Yglesias » The Yoo and Bybee Rulings 2010

Attorney General ERIC HOLDER (Department of Justice): I know first hand that advancing public corruption investigations and prosecutions is extremely difficult work.

Arrests Have Justice Department Feeling Better 2010

Beyond that, DOJ's remarkable embrace of tainted prosecutors and selective prosecutions is best explained by its culture: Democratic and Republican DOJ leaders alike benefit long-term (including in their lucrative post-government careers) by coddling over-zealous and politically motivated fellow prosecutors, and then using superficial internal investigations to whitewash whatever happened.

Andrew Kreig: U.S. Charges of Alabama Corruption Tainted By Past Federal Misconduct Andrew Kreig 2010

Attorney General ERIC HOLDER (Department of Justice): I know first hand that advancing public corruption investigations and prosecutions is extremely difficult work.

Arrests Have Justice Department Feeling Better 2010

Attorney General ERIC HOLDER (Department of Justice): I know first hand that advancing public corruption investigations and prosecutions is extremely difficult work.

Arrests Have Justice Department Feeling Better 2010

The EPA was notorious during the Bush years for a steep decline in prosecutions against big polluters.

duh pookie 2010

The biggest political problem that might force the new administration to proceed cautiously with prosecutions is the potential for blowback if and when some unjust victim of the gulag takes vengeance for his maltreatment by killing some Americans after his release form that gulag.

Matthew Yglesias » Cornyn Holds Up Holder, Demands Immunity From Prosecution For Torturers 2009

The EPA was notorious during the Bush years for a steep decline in prosecutions against big polluters.

duh pookie 2010

Attorney General ERIC HOLDER (Department of Justice): I know first hand that advancing public corruption investigations and prosecutions is extremely difficult work.

Arrests Have Justice Department Feeling Better 2010