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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Good chance to stick it a future Dim administration.
Critics have accused the Trump administration of flouting the law in its aggressive use of executive power.
However they had no problem with Bidens open border sleeper cell operation comrades.
Someone queue George Peppard saying “I love it when a plan comes together.”
“Thank God and Greyhound they’re gone.”
As an added bonus, if they quit voluntarily there is no severance pay. Plus federal pension costs will be less than if they stayed for a full career.
And probably they quit knowing the democrats will destroy them when Trump is out of office. Look what they did to all bos lawyers last time.
That’s what Bondi has to put up with. DOJ may have to contract-hire its pro-Trump legal help. It’s gonna take time.
Excellent.
Flush ‘em out and replace with reliable allies.
They very likely were told that defending Trump’s policies meant a loss of their ABA standing.
Well good, we don’t need Left loonies in the DOJ, now there’s vacancies for more patriots to work there.
Change the culture change the nation.
Keep up the good fight, President Trump.
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So?
Replace them with conservatives!
Where are you going to get them? Even the LSAT is biased to screen for socialist preferences.
Now the new hires are examined to see if marxism is their sworn enemy, and I mean MARXISM IS THE SWORN ENEMY.
“Now they can hire some real attorneys, not just Rat Party undercover operatives.” ... who deliberately try to lose Trump policy lawsuits ...
Quitting for not doing your job is usually known as getting your butt fired. Those cowardly, “Dipstick judges” are the ones who should be embarrassed and quit. The Trump quitters didn’t quit. They got fired.
I’ll put that in the Blondi is doing a heckuva job column.
Anyone in DOJ prior to January that leaves is a huge positive.
Idiots working for Reuters quit. People working for the DOJ are making too much money to just quit.
Good! They will no longer be sucking from the public’s nipple.
self draining swampers?
If they were going to quit, why did they throw tantrums and go complain to “Dipstick Judges” from Jamaica, Haiti and India who should be selling 44 ouncers at 7-11 and Circular K.
Sounds like Team Trump is getting rid of the rats - that’s a good thing.
So Reuters tries to spin it as rats abandoning a sinking ship.
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