The department has hemorrhaged thousands of veteran attorneys since Trump returned to office thanks to the president’s revenge campaigns, violent immigration crackdown, and increasingly overwhelming workloads.
The government has lowered hiring standards and resorted to offering $25,000 signing bonuses, despite historically being deluged with applications from lawyers who were happy to take a pay cut in exchange for the prestige and satisfaction of federal service.
Over the past few weeks, the deputy attorney general’s office told all 93 U.S. attorney’s offices that every prosecutor must maintain at least “25 open matters” at all times, four people told Bloomberg Law.
That was my take when I read her platform. Like there’s nothing truly objectionable, I don’t disagree with any of it, but it just kinda gives that vibe in what it doesn’t say and how it says what it does. It’s vague where I’m looking for specifics. Shit, supporting small business used to be a Republican talking point — and I don’t hate local business at all, but it sounds neo-liberal to me.
At any rate, anyone who thinks Illhan Omar isn’t killing it and needs to be replaced is pretty suspect. Someone who was any kind of progressive would find somewhere else to run.
I’m glad someone else read between the lines, and found a different message. She’s a Fetterman, at best.