A former Justice Department attorney who worked for the Office of Legal Counsel wrote an op-ed for The New York Times in which she offered an apology for not taking a stronger stance against President Trump. Erica Newland, who joined the DOJ under the Obama administration after serving as a clerk for D.C. Newland, who left in 2018, now regrets that she and others did not do more to fight against Trump when they had the chance. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPFox News reached out to the Justice Department for comment, but they did not immediately respond. Now, Newland works against the Trump administration as counsel for Protect Democracy, an organization that says its creation in 2017 was meant "to prevent American democracy from declining into a more authoritarian form of government."

Source: Fox News December 21, 2020 18:41 UTC