"Trump's personal law firm, which is how the once venerable DOJ was rebranded at the start of the Trump II term, is leaking attorneys like a sieve. But that's what happens when career prosecutors are asked to drop corruption cases as part of a corrupt political bargain or sign off on baseless prosecutions of Trump's enemies or be part of a fascist machine that ignores court orders and the Constitution."
"DOJ lawyers are burning out, walking out, or in one memorable case, asking a judge to hold them in contempt just so they can finally get some sleep. Instead of reconsidering whether flooding line prosecutors with legally dubious ICE cases is a great idea, DOJ has opted for the institutional equivalent of shouting "NEXT!" and grabbing whoever hasn't escaped yet."
An internal DOJ plan called "emergency jump teams" requires each of the 93 U.S. attorney's offices to volunteer one or two assistant U.S. attorneys for short-term rotation into high-need areas facing urgent assistance. The memo from Francey Hakes set a fast voluntary deadline. Persistent departures, burnout, and morale collapse followed politicization and pressure on career prosecutors, including dropping corruption cases and approving dubious prosecutions. Previous stopgap measures included deploying military lawyers and social-media recruiting. The jump teams aim to fill staffing gaps but subject prosecutors to repeated short-term deployments and signal deeper staffing and institutional problems.
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