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WMHW Partner John Keller was quoted in The New York Times on the importance of protecting the Justice Department’s independence. Keller, who previously served as Acting Chief of the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section, stepped down this year after more than 15 years of service:

“Like many federal prosecutors, Mr. Keller spent his career avoiding talking publicly about his cases and instead spoke through formal court filings. Now he is beginning to break his silence, not to discuss his cases, but because he feels duty bound to call out the consequences of Mr. Trump’s rapid trampling of the rule of law.

‘It feels to me we have crossed the Rubicon,’ Mr. Keller told us in a recent interview. ‘The idea of charging your enemies without a solid factual basis — that’s the hallmark of a dictatorship. That’s when the rule of law and our governing system is just wholly broken.’”