Why did Denise Chung resign from her position at the U.S. Department of Justice?

Denise Chung, the Chief of the Criminal Division in the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington, D.C., resigned after refusing to compromise her ethical standards when pressured by the Trump Justice Department. She specifically refused to create misleading documentation about an investigation that would have facilitated what she viewed as the illegal seizure of banking records. This resignation represents another instance of principled departure from the Trump administration's Justice Department, where career officials faced ethical dilemmas when ordered to cross professional lines. Chung chose to step down rather than put a lie in writing that would enable actions she believed were unlawful.