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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says only Donald Trump knows why Pam Bondi was fired from the Department of Justice.

Stanley Woodward could be leaving the Department of Justice to be replaced by current Civil Rights Division Chief Harmeek Dillon.

The Department of Justice presses for its own search of Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's phone.

And the Civil Rights Division is investigating Cassidy Hutchinson for lying to Congress.

This is unjustified.

This is unjustified.

Hey, everybody, welcome to episode 64 of Unjustified.

It's Sunday, April 12th.

I can't believe it's April already, 2006. I'm Allison Gill. And I'm Andy McCabe. And we are back here at the place where everyone goes to get their DOJ news. There is some DOJ news this week. As always,

Allison, it's crazy. I don't know. Personally, I've never heard of the Civil Rights Division investigating a 1001 false statement case before.

But here we are.

Here we are.

So let's start there with a New York Times report that the Justice Department has assigned its civil rights division to investigate.

Now, you expect me to finish that sentence with like a police department or, you know, a voting rights accusation, something like that.

But no, they've been appointed to investigate Cassidy Hutchinson, former White House aide who outraged President Trump four years ago

after her testimony before Congress implicated him in the violence that erupted at the Capitol on

January 6, 2021. And this is according to four people familiar with the matter. The move was a highly

unusual one by Justice Department leadership directing a criminal case that

appears to involve accusations of lying to Congress to a specialized unit that normally focuses on

systemic civil rights abuses like police misconduct and racial discrimination.

This is so bizarre, Andy. And yet the decision was in keeping with the administration's bid to find new ways to use the powers of the federal government to target Mr. Trump's political opponents.

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