Injustice Quotes

“The most important test that nearly every attorney general had stared down since Watergate was a point of inevitable conflict with the president’s political goals and a duty to reassert the department’s fidelity to the law above all else.”
― Carol Leonnig, Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department

“They didn’t want to gamble with their pensions and health-care coverage for them and their families. And in the end”
― Carol Leonnig, Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department

“Allowing rioters to turn themselves in gave them time and motivation to delete or destroy incriminating photos”
― Carol Leonnig, Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department

“The Pulitzer board granted us and our colleagues the most recent medal for coverage of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Their announcement said our reporting had provided the public with “a thorough and unflinching understanding of one of the nation’s darkest days.” But in the few short years that have elapsed, it’s grown hard to walk by the wall of medals without questioning how the country’s memories splintered so sharply, and why, unlike so many historic events methodically reported by our newsroom, many Americans had rejected the reality of January 6.”
― Carol Leonnig, Injustice: How Politics and Fear Vanquished America's Justice Department