House Judiciary Hearing on Political Interference at the Department of Justice

Elliot Setzer
Wednesday, June 24, 2020, 11:12 AM

Watch a livestream of the hearing here.

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On Wednesday, June 24, at 12:00p.m., the House Committee on the Judiciary will hold a hearing on the oversight of the Department of Justice, focusing on political interference and threats to prosecutorial independence. The committee will hear testimony from: Aaron Zelinsky, Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland; Donald Ayer, Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown; John Elias, Trial Attorney in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice; and Michael Mukasey, former Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice. You can read the written statements from Ayer, Zelinsky and Elias on Lawfare.

You can watch a livestream of the hearing here and below:


Elliot Setzer is a Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford Law School and a Ph.D student at Yale University. He previously worked at Lawfare and the Brookings Institution.

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