POLS 125 Chapter Notes - Chapter NA: United States Associate Attorney General
9 Nov 2020
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Knowledge of or notice of the judicial proceeding. Acting corruptly with the intention to influence, obstruct or impede the proceeding. The us attorney received phone calls from one of the republican senators and a. As troubling and dramatic as these circumstances in new mexico were, that state was not the only place where the firing of a us attorney could result in criminal charges for impeding justice. In the southern district of california the us attorney was fired even as she was supervising the highest profile public corruption case in america. Senior department of justice officials at a minimum will have to demonstrate that their complicity in the removal of this attorney had nothing to do with her aggressive prosecution of high profile republicans for public corruption. Investigators will need to seek to establish whether other senior officials knowingly sought her removal in connection with the investigation.
