The U.S. Justice Department unit charged with defending against legal challenges to signature Trump administration policies - such as restricting birthright citizenship and slashing funding to Harvard University - has lost nearly two-thirds of its staff, according to a list seen by Reuters.
Sixty-nine of the roughly 110 lawyers in the Federal Programs Branch have voluntarily left the unit since President Donald Trump’s election in November or have announced plans to leave, according to the list compiled by former Justice Department lawyers and reviewed by Reuters.
“Many of these people came to work at Federal Programs to defend aspects of our constitutional system,” said one lawyer who left the unit during Trump’s second term. “How could they participate in the project of tearing it down?”
It’s a convenient filter to weed out any lawyers in the department with ethics, and replace them with lawyers who will do what the Boss wants, no matter what. They even admit it:
“Any sanctimonious career bureaucrat expressing faux outrage over the President’s policies while sitting idly by during the rank weaponization by the previous administration has no grounds to stand on,” White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said in a statement.
Which is Trumpspeak for “We want anyone with an independant code of ethics gone”…
Harrison Fields can go fuck himself for that bullshit statement.
FFS. If you are in this situation don’t quit. Refuse to follow illegal orders until you are fired.
So the remaining lawyers, and whoever replaces the ones who quit, are the most evil, untrustworthy motherfuckers available. That’s what I take from this.
69 nice
No I did not read what it was 69 of
