• DandomRude@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    That sounds like very little, considering that anyone still working under this criminal regime at the DOJ is clearly making themselves liable to prosecution.

    Obstruction of justice, blatant corruption, and the resulting facilitation of the most serious crimes simply don’t look all too good if you don’t want to end up in prison or, as a lawyer, at least want to keep your license - but hey, the U.S. isn’t exactly a constitutional state tbh: Presumably, the remaining opportunists are speculating on a nice position in the emerging autocracy, which then won’t even need to keep up the pretense anymore.

    Who can blame them for trying, when we see every day that even blatant crimes in the U.S. have absolutely no legal consequences?

  • NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    I’m hoping the number would be much higher, but that there are a large number of lawyers there who are resisting from the inside - delaying, sabotaging, undermining all the illegal things they are trying to do.

    It’s wishful thinking, but it would certainly be a better result than all the people with principles resigning which just frees up spots so they have a clean fascist reporting chain.

    • homes@piefed.world
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      13 days ago

      It’s wishful thinking, but it would certainly be a better result than all the people with principles resigning which just frees up spots so they have a clean fascist reporting chain.

      The DOJ isn’t exactly on a hiring spree, nor are there a bunch of qualified lawyers eager to go work there. your concerns can be allayed, at least for the moment.

  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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    13 days ago

    The DOJ can lose 100% of their lawyers and still function. As long as there’s judges working on behalf of the government they can still present non lawyers as appointed place holders.