Peter Keisler in Reuters
Board Member Peter Keisler was quoted in Reuters‘ coverage of the Trump administration’s Justice Department. Andrew Goudsward and Sarah Lynch write:
Attorney General Pam Bondi described a Justice Department effort to review legal cases brought against Trump as an attempt to “root out corruption and weaponization.”
Legal observers said the moves signal an administration willing to align its decisions on criminal prosecutions with Trump’s political agenda in a sharp break from historical practice.
“It’s the most basic proposition of law enforcement that it has to be neutral and apolitical for it to be fair and credible,” said Peter Keisler, a senior Justice Department official under Republican President George W. Bush. “Otherwise, it’s just an instrument of a president who is trying to reward friends and punish enemies.”