{"id":45135,"date":"2025-11-16T21:12:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=45135"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:12:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:12:32","slug":"book-injustice-how-politics-and-fear-vanquished-americas-justice-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/11\/16\/book-injustice-how-politics-and-fear-vanquished-americas-justice-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: “Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Carol Leonnig<\/a>,\u00a0Aaron C. Davis<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

From Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning Washington Post<\/em> reporters Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis, a shocking investigation of unparalleled depth into the subversion of the Justice Department over the last decade, culminating in President Donald Trump upending this cornerstone of democracy and threatening America\u2019s rule of law as we have long known it<\/strong>

Throughout his first administration, Trump did more than any other president to politicize the nation\u2019s top law enforcement agency, pressuring appointees to shield him, to target his enemies, and even to help him cling to power after his 2020 election defeat. The department, pressed into a defensive crouch, has never fully recovered.

Injustice<\/em>\u202fexposes not only the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to undermine the department at every turn but also how delays in investigating Trump\u2019s effort to overturn the will of voters under Attorney General Merrick Garland helped prevent the country from holding Trump accountable and enabled his return to power. With never-before-told accounts, Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis take readers inside as prosecutors convulsed over Trump\u2019s disdain for the rule of law, and FBI agents, the department\u2019s storied investigators, at times retreated in fear. They take you to the rooms where Special Counsel Jack Smith\u2019s team set off on an all-but-impossible race to investigate Trump for absconding with classified documents and waging an assault on democracy\u2014and inside his prosecution\u2019s heroic and fateful choices that ultimately backfired.

With a plethora of sources deeply embedded in the ranks of three presidencies, Leonnig and Davis reveal the daily war secretly waged for the soul of the department, how it has been shredded by propaganda and partisanship, and how\u2014if the United States hopes to live on with its same form of government\u2014Trump\u2019s war with the Justice Department will mark a turning point from which it will be hard to recover.\u202fInjustice<\/em>\u202fis the jaw-dropping account of partisans and enablers undoing democracy, heroes still battling to preserve a nation governed by laws, and a call to action for those who believe in liberty and justice for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the author<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Carol Leonnig<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Carol Duhurst Leonnig is an American investigative journalist and a longtime staff writer for The Washington Post<\/em>. She was part of a team of national security reporters that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2014 for reporting that revealed the NSA’s expanded spying on Americans. She later received Pulitzers for National Reporting in 2015 and 2018. She is a member of the ’87 class at Bryn Mawr College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America’s Justice Department Carol Leonnig,\u00a0Aaron C. Davis From Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis, a shocking investigation of unparalleled depth into the subversion of the Justice Department over the last decade, culminating in President Donald Trump upending this cornerstone of democracy… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45137,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45135\/revisions\/45137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}