The department has hemorrhaged thousands of veteran attorneys since Trump returned to office thanks to the president’s revenge campaigns, violent immigration crackdown, and increasingly overwhelming workloads.
The government has lowered hiring standards and resorted to offering $25,000 signing bonuses, despite historically being deluged with applications from lawyers who were happy to take a pay cut in exchange for the prestige and satisfaction of federal service.
Over the past few weeks, the deputy attorney general’s office told all 93 U.S. attorney’s offices that every prosecutor must maintain at least “25 open matters” at all times, four people told Bloomberg Law.
If a lawyer is about retirement age or ready to leave law, it might not be a bad job to take. Good pay, bonuses, etc. But they would have to contend with the “follow Trump’s unreasonable & illegal dictates and then get barred from practice” that go along with it. Too much of a gamble for a lawyer who needs to keep practicing for another 10-30 years.
A certain number of people will take money to do bad things. But when you risk being disbarred over some illegal unconstitutional idiocy a corrupt president orders you to do, maybe it isn’t worth throwing away 7 years of law school.
“I’m still paying student loans!”
Anyone why voluntarily serves this evil administration is a piece of shit and they should be ashamed of themselves
The last lawsuit had the judge recommending sanctions for the DoJ attorneys, so we’ve now reached the point where these attorneys will be paying a steep PERSONAL price for bringing these bullshit lawsuits.
I’m waiting for the moment when a judge declares Trump and the DoJ a Vexation Litigant, and prohibits their lawsuits.
That was ALWAYS going to be the outcome whether they wanted to believe it or not. Trump has always been like this and they chose to believe it couldn’t possibly happen to them (or whatever happens was worth it financially).
Leopards gotta eat.
Reads like a strategy to discourage “complex white-collar or national security investigations”.
Most of the fascist coup is voluntary.
All of the checks and balances depended on people in positions of authority and power putting up a meaningful resistance; not just the virtue signal of an oath.
Exactly none of the US system of checks and balances includes expecting an employee of the executive branch to defy the head of the executive branch.
It works by the courts invalidating executive orders as illegal or unconstitutional, and the Congress refusing to fund or legislate at the executive’s whims.
Our checks and balances are working fairly well, especially considering that the GOP hold majorities in every part of the federal government. The problem is just that Congress let the other two branches assume too much of its own authority.
Our checks and balances are working fairly well,
Fucking what?
For real. Congress mandated, and courts ordered the release of the Epstein files and the DOJ went ‘nah brah’. There is a massive constitutional crisis unfolding on multiple fronts and I just cant fucking believe how most Americans still have the freedom blinders on.
From a purely federalist standpoint the Epstein files are as irrelevant as any murder or rape. Child trafficking and sexual abuse are already illegal, and if the full unredacted Epstein files included conclusive proof that Trump raped a kindergartner to death it wouldn’t change enough votes to matter.
Trump is exposing the very real flaws in the US system and the bundle of precedents whose existence dissuaded actual change during the imperial-esque exoansion of executive power during the cold war, but he hasn’t broken the constitutional system. Congress still passes laws, those laws still go into effect, and the executive branch still largely obeys the adjudicated application of those laws by the courts.
We have very real problems and Trump is definitely trying to break the system so he doesn’t end his life in prison, but it’s not fucking broken yet. Although it is a system that’s historically led to a bunch of terrible things, from Jim Crow and the Trail of Tears to the 80s AIDS epidemic and Anne Frank being sent back to Germany to die.
~I may have misremembered if Anne was one of the German Jews turned away while fleeing Germany, but it definitely happened to some of her peers.~
Congress passed a law, requiring release of the files, courts ordered their release, the administration just didn’t comply. The fact that happened means the crisis is now.
That’s not what happened. There was a release of Epstein files, just not as much as was intended by Congress
The next step would be for someone with standing to file a suit with the courts, who would then rule if the law passed by congress requires more than is done already given the external rules of the constitution and all the other laws congress has passed.
The executive branch applying laws in a way that Congress did not necessarily intend is not enough for a “constitutional crisis”, wherin the federal system has broken down in a way that cannot be corrected without discarding the system.
There are other crisis, like SCOTUS presuming to interfere in the administration of elections or dictate whether or not Congress really meant it when they passed a law, but those have unexhausted and nonforclosed plausible remedies if Congress decides to actually try and fix them.
If we had a unicameral sovereign parliament we’d have devolved into a dictatorship almost a decade ago.
Our checks and balances aren’t meant to keep the US from doing shitty things. They’re meant to preserve the responsiveness of the government to the people. If enough of the people in enough of the country keep electing people who promise to do shitty things, shitty things will get done. That’s democracy.
There’s a lot of pressure to avoid telling your boss “No.” It even begins in compulsory education. Do what you’re told or suffer the consequences.
Sound like such a great place to work. Remember this?:
I wonder what she’s up to these days. Did she get fired for that? Quit? Did she even get released from contempt?
She’s running as a Democrat, against Ilhan Omar, in a race where Progressives have enormous momentum. Then you read her campaign stuff in the link, and she highlights her fascist homeland security creds, but never mentions her dedication to Democratic causes, or any criticism of MAGA. It doesn’t even mention that she’s running as a Democrat. I had to Google it to confirm it. She’s clearly ashamed to be running as a Democrat. In Minnesota.
She’s just a Manchurian MAGA who was complaining because she had to work so hard to defend obvious unconstitutional legal bullshit.
I’m not going to presume to tell you what she really thinks or really stands for, but my understanding was the whole “this job sucks” thing was a refusal to defend what ICE was doing. That she had been given the thankless task of being the legal point of contact between a justice system she had worked very hard to become a part of and a rogue agency that was making a mockery of justice in every sense.
running in the primary against Ilhan Omar. sems quixotic
Would they have good enough lawyers to go after me if I took the signing bonus and ran?
They can deport you for free
free money glitch, take the signing bonus then self deport for more money, they bring me back for a court case but get deported so I sue them
Trump’s DOJ would be a stain on even the best resume…
Dump can’t apparently pay notoriously slimy people enough for them lick his arse and tell him he tastes like sweet tea…
That’s funny.
