The
situation
in
Minnesota
continues
to
prove
an
abject
nightmare.
The
Trump
administration
continues
to
ignore
and
flagrantly
undermine
judges.
If
the
administration
put
half
as
much
effort
into
honoring
its
legal
obligations
as
it
places
into
attacking
judges
on
social
media,
perhaps
they
wouldn’t
be
staring
down
a
massive
staffing
crisis
—
a
crisis
they’re
trying
to
resolve
by
asking
people
on
Elon
Musk’s
pornification
site
to
sign
up
as
AUSAs.
Hey,
they
built
ICE
by
indiscriminately
recruiting
people
who
failed
even
the
barest
of
entry
qualifications
and
then
refusing
to
train
them
to
follow
the
bare
minimum
of
rules
that
bound
federal
law
enforcement…
maybe
it
will
work
for
prosecutors!
In
the
meantime,
let’s
see
how
it’s
going
on
the
ground
over
at
DOJ.
So,
I
guess
they
haven’t
seen
a
flood
of
new
applications
based
on
Chad
Mizelle
asking
potential
prosecutors
to
slide
into
his
DMs.
It’s
early,
but
Julie
Le
now
takes
a
commanding
lead
in
the
race
for
quote
of
the
year.
“The
system
sucks,
this
job
sucks,”
she
told
Judge
Blackwell.
Given
the
multiple
recorded
incidents
of
DOJ
attorneys
lying
to
the
courts,
this
is
refreshing
candor.
Personally,
I
like
to
think
she
delivered
it
like
Scarface
quitting
his
job
in
Half-Baked.
In
any
normal
setting,
she
would
likely
get
her
24
hours
of
sleep
starting
roughly
5
minutes
after
getting
back
to
the
office
and
learning
that
she’d
been
fired.
But
these
are
not
normal
times,
and
the
DOJ
may
need
to
hang
on
to
the
lawyer
even
if
she’s
willing
to
go
on
the
record
as
actively
hating
her
job.
This
is
what
“flooding
the
zone”
looks
like.
Trump’s
braintrust
long
thought
that
bombarding
the
system
with
abuses
would
overwhelm
the
guardrails.
What
they’re
finding
out
is
that
the
guardrails
hold
and
the
administration
itself
just
ends
up
squished.
For
her
sake,
hopefully
she
can
cut
ties
with
this
Justice
Department
on
her
own
terms
sooner
rather
than
later.
Earlier:
DOJ
Begging
For
AUSAs
On
Twitter
Like
They’re
Putting
Together
A
Kickball
League
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