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Posted on 07/14/2025 12:05:11 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Summary
WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) - 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.
The tally has not been previously reported. Using court records and LinkedIn accounts, Reuters was able to verify the departure of all but four names on the list.
Reuters spoke to four former lawyers in the unit and three other people familiar with the departures who said some staffers had grown demoralized and exhausted defending an onslaught of lawsuits against Trump's administration.
"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?"
Critics have accused the Trump administration of flouting the law in its aggressive use of executive power, including by retaliating against perceived enemies and dismantling agencies created by Congress.
The Trump administration has broadly defended its actions as within the legal bounds of presidential power and has won several early victories at the Supreme Court. A White House spokesperson told Reuters that Trump's actions were legal, and declined to comment on the departures.
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So “career civil servants” are just partisan operatives. Who knew??
“ staff” eh
How many will be missed?
But had no problem vociferously defending Biden’s Student Loan policy.
Even after SCOTUS shot it down.
This is Reuters. Their commentary would not be worth a cup of warm spit to me.
Any other sources that comment on this and the reasons?
Reasons could range from they are disgusted to the money isn’t good enough to they aren’t needed.
Roto-Reuters.
I believe they live in the sewer and are part of fake news.
I don’t take their word for anything.
Ok leftist sue Trump for everything then leftists still at the DOJ want to pretend where not happy they quit.
No unemployment benefits, no buyouts.
Just BYE
Rrhoiders weighs in with the Daily Gaslight.
If they were civil employees, they were not supposed to be "politically motivated".
Thank God and Greyhound they’re gone.
Now they can hire some real attorneys, not just Rat Party undercover operatives.
Bon voyage. Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.
(They left what you almost any normal attorneys would be interesting jobs … all politics aside —-)
They were probably just going to sabotage from within if they hadn’t left/been let go.
Didn’t Trump intentionally assign some of the problem liberals to this unit? rather than fire them?
Posted that to the wrong thread.
Yep, one third left to go!
Democrat Partisans.
very good. about 80,000 to go.
Always too many lawyers.
Their willingly departing is better than having to fire them.
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