A Former Federal Prosecutor on Why He Quit Donald Trump’s Department of Justice
Federal prosecutor Troy Edwards resigned from the Department of Justice during Donald Trump's second term in protest after the department indicted his father-in-law, James Comey, in what he viewed as a politically motivated abuse of power. His resignation reflects a broader crisis in the
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