Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
The issue is not what my beliefs are or even my motives when I bring a case; the issue is the merits of the case that I bring. The notion that the cases lack merit because of the belief of the prosecutor is a form of McCarthyism, of which we are seeing too much.
— Hamilton “Phil” Fox III, longtime head of the District of Columbia’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel, in a written statement, concerning the lawsuit recently filed by the Justice Department against him and his 45-member investigative team, which alleges that they engaged in “brazen partisan behavior” by “[w]eaponizing state bar discipline against Executive Branch attorneys.”
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