THEY FUCKING WELL OUGHTA BE: DOJ Lawyers "Terrified" of Trump's Return

Many in government are worried about Trump's return. At DOJ, they're terrified.

Trump blames DOJ for much of his torment over the past four years. Lawyers there fear what's next.

A collective sense of dread has taken hold at the Department of Justice, which drew Donald Trump's rage like no other part of the federal government during his campaign.

Some career attorneys at DOJ are already considering heading for the exits rather than sticking around to find out whether threats from Trump and his allies are real or campaign bluster. Those threats range from mass firings of "deep state" lawyers to expelling special counsel Jack Smith from the country.

"Everyone I've talked to, mostly lawyers, are losing their minds," said one DOJ attorney, who like most of the people interviewed for this article was granted anonymity to speak freely about colleagues and avoid retribution from the president-elect and his allies. "The fear is that career leadership and career employees everywhere are either going to leave or they're going to be driven out."

While alarm over Trump's return is widespread throughout the federal bureaucracy, it is perhaps most acute at the Justice Department, which was at the center of many of the major controversies of his first term.

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"Many federal employees are terrified that we'll be replaced with partisan loyalists -- not just because our jobs are on the line, but because we know that our democracy and country depend on a government supported by a merit-based, apolitical civil service," said Stacey Young, a trial attorney in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division who won an award from Barr in 2020 and is president and co-founder of the DOJ Gender Equality Network.

GRTWT. 

ACE OF SPADES COMMENTS:

As you know, the House was just called for Republicans. So that means that conservatives will control -- nominally, in the case of Congress -- all three branches of government, and both houses of Congress.

This leaves Democrats without a bastion of government power for their #Resistance efforts.

Thus, a new op begins: Convincing the public that the bureaucracy is the fourth branch of government, and has its own independent source of power enshrined in the Constitution, and is authorized to provide #Resistance to Trump despite being unelected bureaucrats who are part of the Executive branch, and therefore only have the power that the Chief Executive -- Trump -- has, and must use that power to act as the Chief Executive demands.

But no, the Constitution is like 100 years old, man, and the left needs to conjure up a foothold in government. So FusionGPS's favorite leak recipient and dogged defender of the Deep State tells us that Aksually Trump's inferior officers have a right to take action independently from him and impose their own agenda on the government:

NBC Propagandist "Fusion Ken" Dilanian, a major pusher of the FBI's Russia collusion lie against Trump and enabler of DOJ lawfare against Biden's political enemies, says that the DOJ has a norm of not being political. https://t.co/kPiQdYjYm9

— Mollie (@MZHemingway) November 11, 2024

That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. DOJ lawyers are Trump's employees and must act as he directs, so long as his orders do not involve law-breaking. But in all matters of policy and priority -- Trump's orders are orders, not suggestion. 

What the left is trying to claim is that all the leftwing bureaucrats filling the government -- who have taken over the government just as they took over the media, only hiring their fellow travelers until the whole institution is subverted -- get to make their own policy, despite being completely unelected and without any independent power in the Constitutional scheme of government. 

But this is the new op, insisting that bureaucrats may boss around the elected president. 

This is exactly as asinine as insisting that a congressman's staffers have the right to countermand his decisions and cast their own votes in Congress.