Fairfax County Supervisor Walter Alcorn other members of the Board of Supervisors in issuing a joint statement calling out President Trump’s pressure tactics that led to the resignation of the former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Erik Siebert.
As leaders of Fairfax County, we call on our members of Congress and the judges of the Eastern District of Virginia to maintain the integrity and legal viability of our area’s U.S. Attorney’s office.
The president’s action is an attack one of the bedrock traditions that separates us from less mature democracies – keeping prosecutorial authority and political battles separate.