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From Pulitzer Prize-winning 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 and threatening Americas rule of law as we have long known it
Throughout his first administration, Trump did more than any other president to politicize the nations 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 exposes not only the Trump administrations efforts to undermine the department at every turn but also how delays in investigating Trumps 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 Trumps disdain for the rule of law, and FBI agents, the departments storied investigators, at times retreated in fear. They take you to the rooms where Special Counsel Jack Smiths team set off on an all-but-impossible race to investigate Trump for absconding with classified documents and waging an assault on democracyand inside his prosecutions 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 howif the United States hopes to live on with its same form of governmentTrumps war with the Justice Department will mark a turning point from which it will be hard to recover. Injustice is 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.
Author: Carol Leonnig, Aaron C. Davis
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 11/04/2025
Pages: 496
Weight: 1.57lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.13w x 1.25d
ISBN: 9780593831373
Language: English
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