Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Democracy and the Constitution Clinic
Publication Date
2020
Keywords
department of justice, constitution
Abstract
The rule of law is undermined when political and personal interests motivate criminal prosecutions. This report advances proposals for ensuring that the federal criminal justice system is administered uniformly based on the facts and the law. It recommends a law preventing the president from interfering in specific prosecutions, another law establishing responsibilities for prosecutors who receive improper orders, and new conflict of interest regulations for Department of Justice officials.
This report was researched and written during the 2018-2019 academic year by students in Fordham Law School’s Democracy and the Constitution Clinic, which is focused on developing non-partisan recommendations to strengthen the nation’s institutions and its democracy. The clinic's reports are available at law.fordham.edu/democracyreports.
Recommended Citation
Rebecca Cho, Louis Cholden-Brown, and Marcello Figueroa,
Toward an Independent Administration of Justice: Proposals to Insulate the Department of Justice from Improper Political Interference
(2020)
Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/faculty_scholarship/1102
