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- The Morning Call
Ryan Crosswell is an attorney, former Department of Justice prosecutor and Marine Corps veteran who announced his run for the seat in May 2025. Crosswell made national headlines last year when he resigned as a career Department of Justice prosecutor, a position he had held since May 2020, and wrote in a public letter of resignation that he was directed to dismiss a criminal indictment for political reasons.
- Scott MacFarlane Reports
Crosswell isn’t shy about blistering the President. In an interview with me months ago, when he launched his campaign, Crosswell said, “What the administration has done is removed one of the most important guardrails against corruption within the government at all levels: state, local and federal. We’re now moving into an area where prosecutions would be determined by political loyalty.”
- The Washington Post
Crosswell also said retiring lawmakers are doing their voters and parties a disservice by elevating someone who may not be suited to the role: “Those candidates need to be able to carry their own ruck, as we say in the Marine Corps,” he said of the people tapped to replace a retiring member. “That’s my concern.”
- NOTUS
Ryan Crosswell, a former public corruption prosecutor at the DOJ who left at the start of the second Trump administration and is now running for Congress in Pennsylvania, is concerned about whether this policy shift could affect the U.S. attorneys who oversee the DOJ’s regional offices across the country. “The political appointees are all part of the top leadership of the DOJ, and in particular, the U.S. attorneys,” he said. “And as the chief law enforcement agencies in their own federal districts, if anyone should not be engaged in political activities, it’s them.”
- Lehigh Valley News
A year after resigning from the U.S. Department of Justice in protest, former federal prosecutor and Marine Ryan Crosswell is running as a Democrat in Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District. Joining host Tom Shortell on this week's Political Pulse, Crosswell said his campaign is focused on two priorities: lowering costs for families and defending democratic institutions.
- Armchair Lehigh Valley
Ryan Crosswell holds a large advantage in cash at the start of 2026 among Democratic candidates for 7th Congressional District, according to the latest campaign finance reports filed with the federal Election Commission. With the May 19 primary approaching, Crosswell’s campaign has $612,250 to spend, which is $271,483 more than the next Democratic candidate.
- El Nuevo Dia
A former federal prosecutor who worked on the Wanda Vázquez Garced case and is now a candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania indicated that the presidential pardon of the former governor, Venezuelan banker Julio Herrera Velutini and consultant Mark Rossini represents a “sad day” for U.S. justice.
