Biden, Harris Vow to Keep Their Justice Department Independent
- Biden concerned any Trump family pardons would set ‘precedent’
- President-elect has yet to nominate an attorney general
Biden told CNN he was concerned over recent reports that Trump was considering pardoning himself or his family, and that such a move would undermine the U.S. image abroad.
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President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris declared the Justice Department in their administration would operate independently of the White House.
“We will not tell the Justice Department how to do its job,” Harris said in a joint interview with CNN on Thursday, adding that the Biden White House would assume “that any decision coming out of the Justice Department, in particular the United States Department of Justice, should be based on facts, should be based on the law, should not be influenced by politics. Period.”