一群前联邦检察官和人权律师正联合起来，调查他们所说的、被特朗普司法部忽视的政治腐败和执法暴力。
A group of former federal prosecutors and human rights lawyers is banding together to investigate political corruption and law enforcement violence that they say is being ignored by the Trump Justice Department.
组织者表示，这个名为“法治项目”的非党派、非营利组织将收集事实并呈交案件，要么提交给州和地方检察官，要么提交给未来的司法部——该组织称未来的司法部可能会以比当前司法部更少的党派方式运作。
Organizers say the non-partisan, non-profit organization, dubbed the Rule of Law Project, will gather facts and present cases either to state and local prosecutors, or to a future Justice Department it says may operate in a less partisan manner than the current.
创始人布拉德·亚当斯曾在非政府组织“人权观察”工作20年，负责监督对国家暴力的调查。他说，该组织是对一种氛围的回应——他引用了近期关于政客贪腐的报道，以及美国移民与海关执法局（ICE）警官涉枪击人事件等事件——在这种氛围中，“高级官员公开从事腐败活动，联邦特工殴打和杀害无辜者却逍遥法外。”他补充道：“法治正处于弥留之际，但我们所有人都有责任确保它不至于消亡。”
Founder Brad Adams, who spent 20 years with the NGO Human Rights Watch overseeing investigations of state violence, says the group is responding to a climate — citing recent stories alleging grift among politicians and incidents like ICE officer-involved shootings — in which “senior officials openly engage in corruption and federal agents beat and kill innocent people with impunity.”“The rule of law is on life support, but it’s all of our responsibility to make sure it doesn’t die,” he added.
亚当斯表示，该组织将由不愿公开姓名的私人捐助者提供资金，并将以严格非党派的方式运作，调查两党成员中的腐败行为。
Adams said the group will be funded by undisclosed private donors, and will operate in a strictly non-partisan manner, probing corruption among members of either party.
“法治项目的使命是恢复这样一个理想：法律保护并约束所有人，犯罪行为必须承担后果，无论职位、徽章还是影响力，没有人能逃脱这些后果。”法治项目将寻求调查并记录全美范围内那些似乎未被审查、未被惩处的官员腐败和警暴事件，尽管该组织不具备政府调查人员拥有的传票权力。它将收集证据和证人证词，并向州和地方当局，或该组织认为可能更愿意受理这些案件的未来司法部，移交“可直接起诉的案件卷宗”。
“The Rule of Law Project’s mission is to bring back the ideal that the law protects and binds everyone, that criminal conduct has consequences, and that no one — regardless of office, badge, or influence — may escape those consequences.”The Rule of Law Project will seek to investigate and document instances of official corruption and police violence across the United States that appear to have gone unexamined and unpunished, though without the subpoena power afforded to government investigators. It will gather evidence and witness statements and turn over “prosecution-ready case files,” to state and local authorities or a future Department of Justice the group says may be more willing to take on those cases.
“我认为，如果不追究刑事责任，我们就无法打破这个国家的恶性循环，”亚当斯说，并补充称，他预计将在适当的情况下与国会调查人员合作。
“I do not think we can break the cycle in this country without criminal accountability,” Adams said, adding that he anticipates working with Congressional investigators where appropriate.
州和地方检察官已就部分移民与海关执法局（ICE）暴力执法案件展开调查，但在获取证据方面遭遇阻力。司法部官员否认他们无视潜在犯罪活动，称他们根据案件实情逐案评估。
State and local prosecutors have launched investigations into some cases of ICE violence, but have faced obstacles in obtaining evidence DOJ officials dispute that they are ignoring potential criminal activity, saying they assess each case on the merits.
首席调查员将是马克·布伦伯格，他在司法部民权处工作近30年，负责调查和起诉公职人员渎职行为。过去20年里，布伦伯格领导司法部在选举领域执行民权法律的工作。他还曾担任联邦调查局（FBI）射击事件调查审查小组成员和海关与边境保卫局（CBP）国家武力使用审查委员会成员。
The lead investigator will be Mark Blumberg, who spent nearly 30 years in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division investigating and prosecuting acts of official misconduct. For the last 20 years, Blumberg led DOJ efforts to enforce civil rights laws in elections. He also served on the FBI’s Shooting Investigation Review Group and Customs and Border Protection’s National Use of Force Review Board.
该组织表示，他将领导一支由前联邦检察官和调查员组成的团队，成员拥有数十年联邦执法经验。
The group says he will lead a team of former federal prosecutors and investigators with decades of federal law enforcement experience.
“民众需要相信游戏规则没有针对他们而被操纵，法律适用于所有人，”布伦伯格说。“如果掌权者因非法敛财和无故对他人实施暴力而不被追责，就会动摇我们其他人遵守法律的任何动力。我们的公职人员应为国家树立最好的行为榜样，而不是为了权力和财富榨干国家。”组织者表示，“法治项目”将调查那些似乎利用公职谋取私利的官员，包括索取或接受有价值的东西以换取影响其公务行为的人；不当寻求影响行政和立法行动的人，以及其公务行为影响其个人财务利益的人。
“People need to trust that the game is not rigged against them, that the law applies to everyone,” Blumberg said. “If those in power aren’t held accountable for illegally enriching themselves and using violence against others without cause, that undermines any incentive for the rest of us to follow the law. Our public officials should model the best behavior for our country, not milk it dry for power and riches.”Organizers say the Rule of Law Project will investigate officials who appear to have used their public office for private gain, including those who solicit or accept something of value in exchange for influencing their official duties; who improperly seek to influence executive and legislative actions, and whose official acts affect their personal financial interest.
过去20个月来，一系列新闻报道记录了公职人员的可疑行为，或记录了特朗普政府官员结案的联邦调查局（FBI）腐败调查。
A series of news stories over the last 20 months have documented questionable conduct by public officials or FBI corruption investigations that were closed by Trump officials.
民主党参议员呼吁司法部审查汤姆·霍曼并展开贿赂调查 2026年2月2日例如，“MS NOW”率先报道，联邦调查局在一次秘密行动中录下了汤姆·霍曼收受5万美元现金的过程，霍曼否认了这一指控。该案未能推进。
Dem Sen. calls for DOJ review of Tom Homan and bribery investigation February 2, 2026 For example, MS NOW was first to report that the FBI recorded Tom Homan accepting $50,000 cash in an undercover strong operation, an allegation Homan has denied. The case did not move forward.
最近，“ProPublica”报道称，特朗普司法部拒绝推进联邦调查局针对共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯、已故共和党参议员林赛·格雷厄姆和民主党众议员詹姆斯·克莱伯恩涉嫌非法以现金换取合同计划的调查。柯林斯和克莱伯恩否认有不当行为。联邦调查局告诉“ProPublica”，调查“未发现任何牵涉柯林斯参议员的证据”，关于这些议员的报道是基于“前联邦调查局人员和一名重罪犯的半吊子误导性指控，以编织一个预设的叙事”。
More recently, ProPublica reported that the Trump Justice Department declined to move forward on FBI investigations of potential illegal cash for contracts schemes involving Republican Sen Susan Collins, the late Republican Sen. Lindsay Graham and Democratic Rep. James Clyburn Collins and Clyburn deny wrongdoing. The FBI told ProPublica that it had found “nothing implicating Senator Collins” and that the stories about the lawmakers were based on “half-baked misleading claims from former FBI personnel and a convicted felon to spin a predetermined narrative.”
其他通常可能引起司法部关注的案件也已浮出水面，包括《纽约时报》最近报道，前司法部官员阿丽娜·哈巴从一位委内瑞拉亿万富翁的女儿那里获得了一份价值5000万美元的薪酬待遇，该亿万富翁寻求并获得了特朗普总统的赦免。哈巴否认有不当行为，司法部尚未表明是否会——或不会——对此事展开调查。
Other cases have come to light that typically may have drawn Justice Department scrutiny, including a recent New York Times report that former DOJ official Alina Habba received a $50 million dollar compensation package from the daughter of a Venezuelan billionaire who sought and got a pardon from President Trump. Habba denies wrongdoing and the DOJ has not indicated whether it would — or would not — investigate the matter.
该组织表示，“法治项目”还将调查过度使用武力案件和不当羁押条件，重点关注移民与海关执法局和海关与边境保护局的非法行为。调查人员还将调查联邦政府对受保护自由的干涉，包括投票权。
The Rule of Law Project will also investigate excessive force cases and improper conditions of confinement, with a specific focus on unlawful conduct by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, the group says. Investigators will also look into federal interference with protected liberties, including the right to vote.
在今年7月一名移民与海关执法局官员在缅因州枪杀约翰·塞巴斯蒂安·杜兰·格雷罗后，官员称联邦调查局并未进行民权调查。司法部也拒绝就今年1月移民与海关执法局在明尼阿波利斯枪击雷妮·古德一案展开民权调查。
After an ICE officer shot and killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine this past July, officials said the FBI was not conducting a civil-rights investigation The DOJ also declined to open a civil rights investigation into the January ICE shooting of Renée Good in Minneapolis.
“我们只受理一个独立的司法部在正常时期会追究的案件，”布伦伯格说。“这是我作为检察官时要求自己的标准。我们不是为了寻求报复或清算旧账而来。我们是来确保法律对权势人物的适用方式与对其他人一样。” 自水门事件以来，司法部在选择调查和起诉哪些案件方面一直独立于白宫运作。在宣誓就职几天内，司法部长托德·布兰奇表示，他不会承诺独立于特朗普总统和白宫运作该部门。
“We only take cases that an independent Justice Department would have pursued in ordinary times,” said Blumberg. “That’s the standard I held myself to as a prosecutor. We’re not here to seek retribution or to settle scores. We’re here to ensure the law applies to the powerful the same way it applies to the rest of us.”Since Watergate, the Department of Justice has operated independently of the White House in choosing which cases to investigate and prosecute. Days after he was sworn in, Attorney General Todd Blanche said he would not pledge to run the department independent of President Trump and the White House.
“不，我不会承诺这一点。而且没有任何一位司法部长应该承诺这一点，”他在8月告诉美国全国广播公司（NBC）。新组织的董事会成员中包括人权观察前执行主任肯尼斯·罗斯。
“No, I’m not going to pledge that. And no attorney general should ever pledge that,” he told NBC in August. Among the board members of the new group is Kenneth Roth, former Executive Director at Human Rights Watch.
“既然现任美国政府不会调查关于移民与海关执法局（ICE）暴力行为或官员腐败的指控，我们将进行调查，”他说。“为未来可能的起诉奠定基础。” 前司法部检察官组建新团体，接手他们称现任司法部不会受理的案件 MS NOW
“Since the current U.S. government won’t investigate allegations of ICE violence or official corruption, we will,” he said. “To lay the foundation for prosecutions when they become possible.”The post Former DOJ prosecutors form new group to take on cases they say the current DOJ won’t MS NOW