Ian Millhiser
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Lawyers for the Department of Justice are crashing out.
The Dow, the Dow right now is over...
The Dow is over $50,000.
I don't know why you're laughing.
That's a separate issue.
No, the lawyers tasked with prosecuting immigration cases for the Trump administration are quitting, saying they have too much work.
One DOJ lawyer in Minnesota got a lot of attention last week when she told a judge, quote, this job sucks.
A former DOJ chief of staff tweeted in desperation.
To which someone replied, your DMs aren't open.
When President Trump sent ICE into Minneapolis to run amok, his administration was bound to get sued.
The problem is he's running out of lawyers.
That's coming up on Today Explained.
Kyle Cheney is a senior legal affairs reporter for Politico who's been reporting on a ruling from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
It's a federal court that was handed down late last week.
And the court said what exactly, Kyle?
So for months, the Trump administration has been mounting this aggressive, not just a mass deportation effort, but a mass detention effort where anyone they want to deport, even if these are people applying for asylum or seeking other legal pathways to remain in the United States, they're locking them up, essentially, in a way that no previous administration ever has.