The writer E asked Carroll to accuse Trump of sexual assault and sue him for defamation when he belittled her claims.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland defended Donald Trump’s decision to continue to defend Donald Trump Defamation suit A woman accused the former president of the United States of sexually assaulting her in the 1990s.

“The Department of Justice’s job in making legal decisions is not to support any previous or current government,” Garland said in an appearance before a panel in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday.

Garland said: “The essence of the rule of law… is that like a case, there is no rule for Democrats and Republicans, no rule applies to friends, and the other applies to enemies.”

The U.S. Department of Justice represented U.S. government officials in public service-related litigation, and said this week Continue its defense Former President, this started during the previous administration.

“It is not always easy to apply this rule. Sometimes it means that we have to make a decision on a law that we will never make, and as a matter of policy we strongly oppose it,” said Garland, who was affected by the decision harsh criticism.

Critics believe that government lawyers should not participate in the defense of Trump, because the case involved suspected personal actions that occurred before Trump ran for office.

In a letter to Garland, 21 members of the U.S. House of Representatives expressed opposition to this decision. The department “should not spend taxpayer money to protect former President Trump from defamation cases…their decision to do so is grossly misleading,” Congressman Jerry Nadler, one of the signatories Wrote on Twitter.

Barb McQuade, a professor of law at the University of Michigan, told the American news media MSNBC: “This is not a situation where he uses his office to further promote American interests.”

McQuade said: “What happened in his private life 20 years ago was for his own benefit.”

Writer E Jean Carroll Accuse Trump In a 2019 magazine article, she was sexually assaulted in a high-end department store in New York City.

Carol’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan stated on June 8 that she was disturbed by the Biden administration’s decision to support Trump in this case. “Donald Trump raped E Jean Carroll in a department store in New York City many years ago. It was terrible,” Kaplan told Politico.

.@TheJusticeDept Taxpayers’ money should not be spent to defend former President Trump’s defamation case brought by E. Jean Carroll. Their decision to do so was very wrong. pic.twitter.com/CkgrdvktGg

-Representative Nadler (@RepJerryNadler) June 9, 2021

“It is shocking that the current Department of Justice allowed Donald Trump to lie about this matter, thereby depriving our clients of a day in court,” she said.

When asked about the allegations during his presidency, Trump denied ever knowing Carol and said her statement was a lie.

In a briefing filed on June 7 to the Federal Court of Appeals, attorneys for the Justice Department adopted the same legal position the department advocated when Trump was president.

The Justice Department argues that it does not support Trump’s actions against Carroll, but it claims that a law governing litigation against federal officials justifies the government’s action to take over the defense of the former president.

“When members of the White House media asked then President Trump to respond to Ms. Carroll’s allegations of serious misconduct, their questions were raised to him in the capacity of the President,” the departmental lawyers wrote in the new court briefing. .

“Elected public officials can-and usually must-resolve allegations of personal wrongdoing that will raise doubts about their suitability for public office.”