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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“””Sixty-nine of the roughly 110 lawyers in the Federal Programs Branch have voluntarily left the unit since President Donald Trump’s election””””
And were any of the 69 staunch MAGA??????
I need to know if I should be glad or sad.
MORE WINNING !!!!!!!!
THEY DID NOT GET TO PICK & CHOOSE.
Rather sad.......Reuters used be a much-respected name in journalism.
It is one of the worst things that has happened to our nation, and it is entirely under appreciated in its impact: The Media has become a mouthpiece for the Left.
It is populated by 85-90% Leftists, and they have decided that advocacy is more important than impartial journalism...and it is (and has been) doing great damage.
Maybe now, they’ll get things done. Got rid of the dam blockage.
At least two thirds of them NEEDED to leave. Oh well.
Good news...
Any loss of garbage flotsam is welcomed...
Probably, lots of patriots are ready to take their place...
They won’t be hard to replace.
There are l.3 million lawyers known in the good ole USA.
If they don’t do a good job, their ratings are down and no bonus and no promotion. That’s how you get rid of the Deep State entrenched bureaucrats.
Call Roto-Reuters that’s the name
And away goes truth right down the drain
bravo
they did the honorable thing
maybe for the first time in their lives
now they can fight for communism in the private sector
Adios, m-fers.
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Good riddance.
Should have been sacked.
They are Biden creatures.
They’re being hired by the firms now suing the administration each time they try to get something done.
It’s relatively easy. Start by admitting that the trash coming out of the so-called “Ivy League” is just that. Most aren’t even vaguely bright; just picked for a laundry list of woke characteristics.
Then realize that there are plenty of decent attorneys in the state school world who are just as good, got there by dint of actual achievement, and stop worrying about the labels.
https://nationaljurist.com/prelaw/most-liberal-and-conservative-law-schools/
Not hard at all.
GOOD! It was chocked full of Leftists. The goal is to get rid of as many of those people as possible.
Law Schools went Left in the 1980s.
The Deep State is thus pervasive.
It is what Bondi/Patel/Bongino face and must overcome.
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