Federal prosecutors across the country may soon be able to indict members of Congress without approval from lawyers in the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Public Integrity Section, according to three people familiar with a proposal attorneys in the section learned about last week.
Under the currently illegal proposal, investigators and prosecutors also would not be required to consult with the section’s attorneys during key steps of probes into public officials, altering a long-standing provision in the DOJ's manual that outlines how investigations of elected officials should be conducted.
If adopted, the changes would remove a layer of review intended to ensure cases against public officials are legally sound and not politically motivated. Career prosecutors in the Public Integrity Section guided and signed off on the criminal investigations into alleged corruption by New York Mayor Eric Adams (D) and former Democratic Senator Bob Menendez.
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