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Supreme Court's immunity ruling could hurt Justice Department
July 3, 2024 NPR
In a landmark decision this week, the Supreme Court granted presidents sweeping immunity from prosecution.
The ruling represented a huge victory for former President Donald Trump and future presidents who want to wield maximal power.
But its long-term implications for the Justice Department could prove just as consequential.
The court has brushed away nearly 50 years of policies the Justice Department adopted to insulate its cases from political interference.
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In the years after the Watergate scandal, successive Justice Department leaders representing both political parties drew up policies to try to ensure that tampering with their criminal cases would never happen again.
Those policies tried to guarantee DOJ independence from the White House in federal law enforcement investigations and to restrict communications between White House officials and most people inside the DOJ.
The current Attorney General, Merrick Garland, drafted some of those same policies in his first big job after law school.
They became a fundamental part of the Justice Department —and of his own career.
Garland signaled their importance at a news conference on Jan. 7, 2021, a day after the storming of the U.S. Capitol.
“Those policies became part of the DNA of every career lawyer and agent,” Garland said.
“If confirmed, my mission as attorney general will be to reaffirm those policies as the principles upon which the department operates.”
Now, a Supreme Court majority has driven through those guardrails.
And the result could be an enormous shift in how the Justice Department operates.
Philip Lacovara, a former Watergate prosecutor and DOJ lawyer, said the Supreme Court decision means “that the president can order his political enemies prosecuted and the Justice Department must obey those decisions and the courts are not entitled to examine that partisan motivation.”
This is not really a hypothetical.
Former President Trump has pledged to engage in “retribution” if he’s elected later this year.
Trump said he wants to use the Justice Department to go after people who worked at the FBI, and in the Biden White House.
Trump also called out members of the House Jan. 6 committee who investigated him.
https://www.npr.org/2024/07/03/
Battlefield medicine has come a long way. But that progress could be lost
June 3, 2024 NPR
When the U.S. launched its invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 2000s, the military's surgeons were severely out of practice.
It was the first full-scale deployment of American troops in a decade.
A lot of the medical corps' experience came from big city emergency rooms, which "is the closest thing to being in combat that you can get without actually being in combat," army surgeon Tom Knuth told NPR in 2003.
Facing hundreds of injured soldiers per month, surgeons were thrust into performing procedures they might never have seen before serving in a war zone – like double amputations.
Soldiers were often getting to surgeons far too late for their contaminated wounds to be treated.
But as the fighting continued and the casualties mounted, the medical corps was forced to innovate.
Improvements like pop up surgical teams got wounded soldiers medical attention within the "golden hour" after injury.
Newly designed tourniquets became standard gear, saving lives on the front lines.
"They achieved the highest rate of survival for battlefield wounds in the history of warfare," says Art Kellermann, who served as the dean of the Uniformed Services University, the military's medical school.
An attempt to cut costs
Now that the post 9/11 wars have ended, some veteran military doctors say the gains are at risk.
The Pentagon has tried to cut healthcare costs by outsourcing care from military treatment facilities to civilian institutions.
This caused a spiraling effect on the medical corps: military hospitals lost the numbers of patients they needed to keep doctors in practice.
Because of that and the pandemic,
many clinicians left the military.
And the cuts kept going.
https://www.npr.org/2024/06/03/
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