⁍ Twenty former Republican U.S. Attorneys on Tuesday accused President Donald Trump of threatening the rule of law.

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⁍ The former senior federal prosecutors, who collectively served under every Republican president from Dwight Eisenhower to George W. Bush, said Trump treated the Department of Justice as his personal law firm.

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⁍ ‘We believe that President Trump’s leadership is a threat to the rule of law in our country,’ the group wrote.

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– “We believe that President Trump’s leadership is a threat to the rule of law in our country,” 20 former Republican US attorneys who served under every Republican president from Dwight Eisenhower to George W. Bush wrote in a letter supporting Joe Biden’s White House bid, Reuters reports. “Trump’s treatment of the Department of Justice as his personal law firm has endangered the rule of law and undermined the independence of the Justice Department.” The attorneys, who served as senior federal prosecutors, say they are “dismayed” by Trump’s firing of FBI director James Comey, the dismissal of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and his decision to commute the sentence of Roger Stone, who was convicted of lying under oath to lawmakers investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. “He’s not just bending the norms, he’s smashing them,” says Ken Wainstein, a co-founder of the group Republican Voters Against Trump. The group is the latest of several Republican-led organizations opposing Trump’s re-election. Others include Republican Voters Against Trump, Former Republican National Security Officials for Biden, and 43 Alumni for Biden, which consists of hundreds of officials who worked for George W. Bush, the 43rd president. The Trump campaign has described Republican-led groups campaigning for Biden as disaffected former officials ‘trying to take down the duly elected president of the United States.’ Trump on Twitter last year referred to ‘Never Trump Republicans’ as ‘human scum.’