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DOJ reassigned top attorneys. They quit after feeling sidelined.
The Washington Post ^
| August 30, 2025 8:24 a.m. EDT
| erry Stein
Posted on 08/30/2025 11:33:04 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
People familiar with the Sanctuary Cities Enforcement working group say members were assigned menial busy work, and their impression was that the real goal was to force senior career lawyers to resign.
In the first weeks of the current Trump administration, Justice Department officials gave a select group of top senior career attorneys a choice: They could either quit or go to a newly created Sanctuary Cities Enforcement working group.
About a dozen lawyers from high-profile sections including the civil rights and national security divisions agreed to the transfer, jumping into an area most had no experience with but knew was one of the department’s top priorities.
Six months later, all of those attorneys have left DOJ for good, the last one packing up this week. And five people familiar with the working group say they got the impression that the task force was designed to do nothing but frustrate and eventually force out lawyers the administration felt it could replace with
people more loyal to the president.
A Justice Department spokesman declined to comment.
The working group’s name may have suggested its members would be helping to challenge “sanctuary city” policies, which municipalities use to limit or prohibit their employees from
cooperating with federal immigration enforcement. But instead, the people said, members were asked to do Google-type searches and other menial research on those policies — and were told there was no need to communicate with the lawyers who were actually filing high-profile lawsuits against such jurisdictions as
Los Angeles,
New York and Denver.
“The assignment was a sham,” said Bonnie Robin-Vergeer, former chief of the Civil Rights Division’s appellate section, who quit after six weeks. “We did very little.”
Multiple people familiar with the working group, some of whom spoke on the condition...
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
“DOJ reassigned top attorneys. They quit after feeling sidelined.”
Cannot fire them, but...
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posted on
08/30/2025 11:34:24 AM PDT
by
BobL
To: BobL
...like NYC with school teachers, they can be sent to the Rubber Room (a place so boring that they go insane and then quit).
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posted on
08/30/2025 11:36:09 AM PDT
by
BobL
To: BobL
Make them clean bathrooms. All day, every day until they quit. They probably deserve to be in jail.
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posted on
08/30/2025 11:37:17 AM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: BobL
winning. This is the way. Task these rats with watching the copy machine in Fairbanks.
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posted on
08/30/2025 11:37:25 AM PDT
by
gibsonguy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
08/30/2025 11:41:37 AM PDT
by
Williams
(Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Whatever works.
Winning!!!
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posted on
08/30/2025 11:41:47 AM PDT
by
Uncle Miltie
(The U.S spends 13 times (+1,200%) as much per year on Ukraine than it ever has on Israel.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I’ve met people who thought their life’s most important work was things I am appalled by. The DOJ was staffed with those people. So, making them feel like they aren’t able to force more gun seizures or legalize more drugs or abortion or make the world “safe” for trans kids...that’s great!
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posted on
08/30/2025 11:42:16 AM PDT
by
Gen.Blather
(Wait! I said that out loud. Sorry. )
To: E. Pluribus Unum
The Japanese term is 窓際 madogiwa, where the older, useless, unfireable worker is placed near the window, away from all the real work, and given menial paperwork--or worse, no work, just sitting there.
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posted on
08/30/2025 11:44:54 AM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: BobL
Exactly!!! That’s what i posted on FR after the courts reversed the President’s firings from day one....you wanna work for the Feds?? Fine- we are transferring you to our lone outpost in northern Alaska...
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Yes!!! This is what we want. Can’t sue when you quit.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
They probably did the same thing
to conservatives in the past.
What comes around goes around!
Ha ha
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posted on
08/30/2025 11:50:53 AM PDT
by
missthethunder
(Since the 1980 Rona Barrett interview. IYKYK. )
To: BobL
To: missthethunder
There were conservatives in the government??
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Cue the Ain’t That a Shame tune.
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posted on
08/30/2025 12:08:28 PM PDT
by
Vaduz
To: Uncle Miltie
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posted on
08/30/2025 12:09:11 PM PDT
by
TheDon
(Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
That’s the way it’s done. Poor babies have never been in the real world.
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posted on
08/30/2025 12:11:43 PM PDT
by
vivenne
(7Come to think of it. Fact)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I remember reading that when Albert Speer took over arms production for the Nazi that he confronted an impenetrable ossified bureaucracy. As an example, in 1942 it picked up many copies of the Norden bomb sight but was unable to duplicate it during the war. He established his own organization and what existed carried out functions on projects of no value. In this case they evidently identified those who would be most happy in private firms that shared their ideology.
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08/30/2025 12:11:48 PM PDT
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Retain Mike
( Sat Cong)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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