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CBS News Interviews Justice Connection Founder and Executive Director, Stacey Young

CBS, Mar. 11, 2025

Justice Connection Founder and Executive Director, Stacey Young, sat down with Scott MacFarlane at CBS News to discuss the dangerous attacks on DOJ employees.

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Justice Connection Responds to Attacks on DOJ Employees

Justice Connection, Mar. 10, 2025

In the five weeks since Justice Connection launched, attacks against our former Department of Justice colleagues have been reckless, swift, and devastating. Here are some of the ways we’ve already provided vital support.

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ICYMI: News Coverage of Justice Connection's Open Letter from Former Federal Prosecutors

Justice Connection, Mar. 10, 2025

Justice Connection's open letter in support of DOJ prosecutors was covered by The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Associated Press, ABC, Axios, and others.

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Open Letter from 1,200+ Former Federal Prosecutors

Justice Connection, Feb. 18, 2025

In a letter that Justice Connection organized, over 1,200+ former DOJ prosecutors pledged their ongoing support for their current counterparts, expressing admiration for their principled stances and alarm over Department leadership's recent politicized actions in prosecutions.

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Trump DOJ Assigns Sensitive Ethics Powers to Political Aides

Bloomberg Law, Feb. 16, 2025

“Transferring the authority over ethics and employee discipline from a career stalwart like Brad Weinsheimer to partisan loyalists could further expose employees to political retribution, and exacerbate the culture of fear at the Department,” said Stacey Young, who resigned after 18 years as a DOJ attorney Jan. 31 to launch Justice Connection.

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Former DOJ Lawyer Starts Group to Defend Government Employees Under Attack

NPR, Feb. 6, 2025

A veteran Justice Department lawyer has left the agency and is starting a new group to help advise and defend government lawyers under attack from the new administration.

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How Trump’s Sweeping Expulsions Have Thrown the FBI Into Chaos

The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 5, 2025

Trump administration officials have “declared war on their own workforce,” said Stacey Young, a litigator in the Justice Department’s civil rights division who resigned last month and set up an outside group, Justice Connection, to help employees navigate the workplace confusion.

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New Group Aims to Help Justice Dept. Employees Alarmed by Trump

The New York Times, Jan. 31, 2025

The group, Justice Connection, intends to support employees who say they are facing professional and ethical crises under the new administration.

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I’m a Federal Employee. This Is What We Need Most in the Trump Era.

The New York Times, Jan. 12, 2025

Justice Connection's Executive Director, Stacey Young, publishes a call to action in The New York Times.

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