Claims of prosecutor misconduct spread at federal courthouse

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/kv-mOAE56NI

Federal prosecutor in Virginia fired after refusing to lead Comey case

Robert McBride, deputy to Trump ally Lindsey Halligan, is latest in series of dismissals…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/12/us-attorney-virginia-fired-james-comey

 

Georgia prosecutor to take over last remaining criminal case against Trump

In addition to Trump, Mark Meadows, the president's former chief of staff, and former New York mayor and Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani remain defendants in the case…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/14/georgia-prosecutor-trump-election-interference-case

 

Fired national security prosecutor warns colleagues in note on way out | Trump administration | The Guardian

"It appears that my termination was based on little more than a single social media post containing false information," Ben'Ary wrote. "The leadership is more concerned with punishing the President's perceived enemies than they are with protecting our national security." 

"I am troubled that I was removed so abruptly in the middle of important work," Ben'Ary wrote…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/04/fired-national-security-prosecutor-note-warning

 

Trump fires US attorney who told border agents to follow law on immigration raids

Donald Trump fired a top federal prosecutor in Sacramento just hours after she warned immigration agents they could not indiscriminately detain people in her district, according to documents reviewed by the New York Times...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/26/trump-fires-prosecutor-sacramento

 

Judges end Trump pick Alina Habba’s tenure as New Jersey’s top prosecutor

Democrats condemned the removal of Grace. "The firing of a career public servant, lawfully appointed by the court, is another blatant attempt to intimidate anyone that doesn't agree with them and undermine judicial independence," Democratic US senators Cory Booker and Andy Kim from New Jersey said in a joint statement...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/22/alina-habba-new-jersey-prosecutor

 

Why Marjorie Taylor Greene’s targeting of a January 6 prosecutor matters

To hear the Republican congresswoman tell it, a prosecutor should be punished for prosecuting criminals, some of whom committed violent crimes...

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/marjorie-taylor-greene-latest-political-target-matters-rcna186033

 

Opinion | An ‘Utterly Bonkers’ Miscarriage of Justice in Texas - The New York Times

In a very real sense, Wilson's prosecutor functioned as both prosecutor and as part of the judge's team, helping the judge decide the case that he tried. While moonlighting for local judges, he sometimes even "helped write the judges' orders on his own cases."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/opinion/texas-erma-wilson-marcellus-williams.html

Key Witness in Trump Georgia Case Testifies on Timing of Willis-Wade Relationship - The New York Times

But Mr. Bradley testified in court on Tuesday that "I don't know when the relationship started," and that he "never witnessed anything."…

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/27/us/trump-georgia-fani-willis-terrence-bradley.html

Judge in Trump Georgia case orders hearing on Fani Willis misconduct claims - The Washington Post

Willis's decision to hire Wade is now facing enormous scrutiny. The accusations, if true, could present a conflict of interest or could amount to fraud. If Willis and Wade are removed from the case, it's unclear if someone else within her office would be permitted to lead it...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/01/18/judge-orders-hearing-fani-willis-misconduct-georgia-case/

A Black prosecutor was elected in Georgia – so white Republicans made their own district

After Jared Williams was elected Augusta DA, a lawyer and state lawmaker made an unusual proposal: that the whitest county split from the circuit…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/27/georgia-augusta-judicial-circuit-split-republicans

Trump-appointed prosecutor contradicts GOP in Hunter Biden case

This leaves Republicans with a choice: They can come to terms with the fact that their crusade is sorely lacking in evidence, or they can attack the Trump-appointed prosecutor, who has no incentive to lie, and who was kept on by President Joe Biden, even as the U.S. attorney investigated his own son...

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-appointed-prosecutor-contradicts-gop-hunter-biden-case-rcna93457

District attorneys, like this one in Texas, are vowing not to prosecute abortion : NPR

"There is no question that this ruling by the Supreme Court will make our community less safe," he says. "We know that this is not going to end abortions, it will end safe abortions for too many."

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/29/1108513274/a-district-attorney-in-texas-says-he-wont-prosecute-abortion-crimes

Roger Stone Prosecutor Says “We Were Told That We Could Be Fired” Over Case – Mother Jones

A Justice Department lawyer who prosecuted Roger Stone says that he and other career prosecutors “were told that we could be fired,” if they resisted political pressure to lower their recommended sentence for the longtime adviser to President Donald Trump. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/roger-stone-william-barr-aaron-zelinsky-trump/

Barr suspected the Russia probe was a setup. He ordered a review. His prosecutor found nothing - The Washington Post

The Justice Dept. watchdog concluded the FBI had an adequate basis to open the Russia investigation — in part based on an assurance from U.S. Attorney John Durham.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/barrs-handpicked-prosecutor-tells-inspector-general-he-cant-back-right-wing-theory-that-russia-case-was-us-intelligence-setup/2019/12/04/17e084dc-16a9-11ea-9110-3b34ce1d92b1_story.html

Biden Called For Changes At Ukraine's Prosecutor Office ... And So Did 3 GOP Senators - TPM

Oops! The Ukrainian prosecutor at the heart of President Donald Trump's baseless Joe Biden conspiracy theory was seen as corrupt by Trump's own Republican colleagues. Sens. Ron Johnson (R-WI), Rob Portman (R-OH) and former Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL), along with five of their Democratic colleagues, sent a letter to then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in February 2016 pressing him to make "urgent reforms" to the prosecutor general's office. ....
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/biden-ukraine-prosecutor-general-three-republican-senators

Trump called this ex-Ukrainian prosecutor ‘very good.’ He resigned in disgrace - The Washington Post

Trump's call with Ukraine's president brought up a prosecutor who resigned in 2016 after failing to battle corruption.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/trump-called-this-ex-ukrainian-prosecutor-very-good-but-he-resigned-in-disgrace/2019/09/25/d1410aa2-dfb1-11e9-be7f-4cc85017c36f_story.html

Time to put a stop to this': Why a Catholic prosecutor who witnessed abuse took on his own church - USA TODAY

Former altar boy put the full weight of the U.S. government behind his theory the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese should be viewed as a criminal enterprise. ...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/29/catholic-church-clergy-sexual-abuse-david-hickton-us-prosecutor-victims/1994463002/

Rachel Mitchell says her Kavanaugh report is what a ‘reasonable prosecutor’ would say. It’s not. - The Washington Post

Rachel Mitchell said no "reasonable prosecutor" would bring the Kavanaugh case. She's wrong. A fair prosecutor would investigate every lead before reaching that conclusion. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/01/rachel-mitchell-says-her-kavanaugh-report-is-what-reasonable-prosecutor-would-say-its-not/

The Opening Argument in the Trial of Donald J. Trump - The Daily Beast

Good prosecutors always have a theory of the case. While much of special counsel Robert Mueller's evidence remains unknown, the contours of the criminal conspiracy case against President Trump are coming into view. ....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-opening-argument-in-the-trial-of-donald-j-trump