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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.

69 of the roughly 110 lawyers in the Federal Programs Branch have voluntarily left the unit since 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.

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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 33 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sure they're happy to get their own loyalists in there, but at least a legal team full of incompetent dipshits is good for the rest of us.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 22 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Not when Congress and SCOTUS are also full of dipshits. It's like a perfect shit storm that may drown all of us.

[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 15 points 9 hours ago

A shit blizzard, Randy.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 6 points 10 hours ago
[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

It won't change anything in the courts they already own, but it will slow things down in the ones they don't.

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 12 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Excellent, I hope the sycophants who stay enjoy zero time off, constant abuse from unpredictable sociopaths, and public ridicule on top of the threat of contempt whenever they try to defend the government in court

[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

All of this, plus I hope they enjoy retirements of either being fugitives from justice or stuck in prison cells

[–] Kurious84@eviltoast.org 3 points 10 hours ago

When the company sucks or in this case the administration all the good people gtfo.