The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist who accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
A better word is Rationalization, but it doesn’t fit your justice/justification construction.
While both words involve giving reasons for an action, to justify means to prove that an action is right, moral, or valid. To rationalize means to invent socially acceptable or seemingly logical excuses for an action after the fact to make it appear reasonable.
STOP. CALLING. IT. THE. JUSTICE. DEPARTMENT.
It is the JUSTIFICATION Department.
Persecution department? Department of litigation?
Federal Bureau of Payback.
Phantom Limb voice: “THE REVENGE SOCIETY”
A better word is Rationalization, but it doesn’t fit your justice/justification construction.
It is the Department of Rationalization.