Ian Millhiser

There's two problems wrapped up.

One is that if you set aside the fact that the DOJ isn't supposed to be politicized in that way, if you limit the universe of your applicants to MAGA lawyers, then you're going to get worse lawyers because it's just a smaller pool.

Is the administration trying to fill the hole?

Like you said, people are tweeting, please come work for us.

But do you see a concerted effort on the part of the administration at the highest level to like get these positions filled?

I think that they are trying to do triage.

So like Bloomberg reported that I think 93 U.S.

attorney's offices in the United States, they were each ordered to designate one or two lawyers apiece will be part of what are called jump teams, right?

That I guess will go to areas like Minneapolis where they have a huge amount of needs and try to support the lawyers there.

There's also reports that military lawyers, JAG attorneys, are being deployed to Minneapolis in order to try to pick up some of the slack there.

And I mean –

Again, like setting aside the questions of like whether it's a good idea to have military lawyers doing civilian law enforcement and stuff like that.

There's all kinds of problems with this.

I mean, if you're taking lawyers out of U.S.

attorney's offices elsewhere in the country, those lawyers are doing important work.

You know, we want heroin dealers and terrorists and bank robbers and other people who commit federal crimes to be prosecuted.

And if you are being surged to Minneapolis to deal with a bunch of cases brought by illegally detained immigrants, you're not doing the other important work that the Justice Department does.

What are the longer term implications here?

How does this ripple out a year from now, three years from now, five years from now?

So I think this is going to be a disaster for the government in the long term for several reasons.