Even The New York Times admits\u00a0<\/em><\/a>this move is “an unusual insertion of politics into federal law enforcement.<\/em><\/strong>”<\/p>\n While the Justice Department has helped work on previous Supreme Court nominations, department lawyers in Washington typically carry out that task, not prosecutors who pursue criminal investigations nationwide.<\/p>\n Mr. Rosenstein\u2019s email, which had the subject line\u00a0\u201cPersonal Message to U.S. Attorneys From the Deputy A.G.,\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>included the sentence, \u201cWe need your help in connection with President Trump\u2019s nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to serve on the Supreme Court.\u201d<\/p>\n Former law enforcement officials told the Times that\u00a0Rosenstein’s request is troubling.<\/strong><\/p>\n “It\u2019s flat-out wrong to have career federal prosecutors engaged in a political process like the vetting of a Supreme Court nominee.\u00a0<\/strong>It takes them away from the mission they\u2019re supposed to be fulfilling, which is effective criminal justice enforcement,” Christopher Hunter, a former F.B.I. agent and federal prosecutor for almost 11 years, told the publication.<\/p>\n But Michael Zubrensky, a former Justice Department lawyer who oversaw the agency’s Office of Legal Policy, said\u00a0Kavanaugh’s long paper trail could be the reason for Rosenstein’s request.<\/strong><\/p>\n Sarah Isgur Flores, spokeswoman for the Department of Justice, told the Times that prosecutors have been used in the past to vet Supreme Court nominees.\u00a0“[T]he scope of the production of executive branch documents we\u2019ve been asked for is many, many times as large,”<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Rosenstein also wrote\u00a0<\/strong>that he would need the equivalent of 100 full-time attorneys to work on the nominee’s confirmation hearing.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/merlin_140453193_3f353978-6049-49c7-a2da-d7fa9226fcab-jumbo.jpg\")
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