Over Half The Lawyers In Trump's Justice Department Have Resigned

Two thirds of the DOJ unit charged with defending Trump policies have now resigned and the lawsuits are finally catching up to the Trump administration. He hit fast and hard, and now you have these resignations at a time when there are more lawsuits against the federal government than in our history. The body count of bad attorneys or attorneys who are no longer attorneys is fairly high for this administration.

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Two thirds of the DOJ unit charged with defending Trump policies have now resigned, 69 of roughly 110 lawyers in the DOJ that defend these policies have left.

You know, a common theme for all the years Pap was doing this, we would always talk about these defense lawyers, mostly corporate defense lawyers, but also some of these government folks who they go into court every day and their argument is that, hey, my company should be allowed to kill these people, they were expendable or, yeah, we've got these oppressive policies that are ruining people's lives, but that's a good thing. And then they go home and these lawyers are sitting at the dinner table and they tell their kids like, oh, I had a great day at work today. I stripped 10 million people of their citizenship. That's a good day for your dad or for your mom. That's great. And I always talked about these lawyers have a choice.

They can walk away from this. There's one thing, it's really not too difficult for a lot of lawyers to do, which is find a new job. Oftentimes, especially going from being a government lawyer to a private practice lawyer, you're gonna make more money too, and you're gonna have more say over who gets to be your clients. But it never happened until now. So, I genuinely applaud these 69 lawyers that finally said, I can't do this. You are asking us to break the law. You're asking us to file motions that you know are not accurate. You're all asking us to lie to judges. I can't do this anymore. So kudos to these folks for finally developing that moral compass where they said, I'm out. I'm done. I love it.

And 10 of these folks were supervisors. There's only 23 supervisors in this unit. So roughly half of all the supervisors have left. These aren't just run of the mill attorneys. These are attorneys supervising attorneys in arguments for the Supreme Court. I think that the lawsuits are finally catching up to the Trump administration. He hit fast and hard and famously, lawyers are slow, and things take a while to percolate through the courts. So you have these resignations at a time when there are more lawsuits against the federal government than in our history, as well there should be because of their actions not being constitutional or questionably constitutional at best. And you have the experience resigning. You also have a compounding factor and a lot of the replacements that are coming in are political appointees. These are not people who rose up based on merit. It is somebody that they have sought out and given a job and as we've seen, his taste in lawyers is questionable at best.

See, that's what I was about to point out and I love that because again, he's not getting the good lawyers anymore. Trump is notoriously bad for just hiring what I've called the dumbest lawyers I've ever seen. Look, I myself am not a lawyer, but I have worked in the legal industry for 21 years. I have never seen people as incompetent as the one, specifically Alina Habba, that Trump sends into court making these gobbledygook arguments, getting themselves sanctioned like Alina Habba did for just making these patently wild inaccurate statements. They also got sanctioned down in South Florida when he tried to sue Hillary Clinton, I believe it was. So he's bad at picking lawyers, and that's a good thing for this story. This is the one time where picking a bunch of red hats is not a bad thing because these people will have to go to court and they're gonna have to tell a judge like, no, it's totally fine if we fire 80,000 people.

Well, why? Because we had to fire 80,000 people, judge. Those are gonna be fun arguments and I can't wait until it happens because we're gonna have a lot of fun things to talk about just going through their briefings.