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.
This isn’t good news, btw.
The more professional, principled attorneys leave the DoJ, the more easily the DoJ can be weaponized with incompetent and corrupt attorneys.
This isn’t the rug being pulled from under Trump. This is the purge in action.
Yup, and there are far more corrupt horrible people with law degrees out there than you’d ever imagine. Ambulance chasing scum is baby shit next to what these fucks are willing to do.