Ian Millhiser

What is happening there that prosecutors are leaving?

So it appears that there's several layers of things going on here.

So the New York Times recently reported U.S.

attorney's offices throughout the country have lost about 14 percent of their lawyers since Trump took over.

Whoa.

A lot of that seems to be the fact that, you know, people just don't want to be doing the things that this administration is asking them to do.

That's been particularly concentrated in Minnesota.

So there's ordinarily about 70 lawyers in the U.S.

attorney's office in Minnesota.

At least eight other lawyers, it has been reported, walked since then.

And that's on top of the attrition that I already described where, you know, lawyers were already leaving these Justice Department jobs.

It's gotten so bad that, like, former Justice Department personnel have been, you know, Trump appointees have been tweeting like, hey, we need AUSAs.

Please DM me if you want to work for the Justice Department.

Right.

Which, first of all, is it how – like, DOJ is considered an elite employer.

Normally they do not struggle to find very, very, very qualified job applicants.

But beyond that, like, on top of that, apparently the Justice Department is applying an ideological screen where now they are asking people who want to be prosecutors, you know, do you support Donald Trump's agenda?

How will you help implement – like, which executive orders are you excited about?

Yeah.

And, like –