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Trump staff faces vital scarcity of morally versatile attorneys

Editorial Board Published October 8, 2025
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It’s exhausting to search out good assist as of late. What’s a president to do when all he needs is to make use of the would possibly of the state to persecute his political enemies, however all of those pencil-necked geek attorneys preserve saying issues like “sir, there is no case here”? 

President Donald Trump’s retribution jamboree is being stalled out by profession Justice Division prosecutors frightened about silly issues like “the law” and “ethics.” 


Lindsey Halligan, interim U.S. legal professional for the Jap District of Virginia

Take Elizabeth Yusi, a profession prosecutor who has been an assistant U.S. legal professional for about 15 years. In response to MSNBC, Yusi will likely be telling Lindsey Halligan, a real-estate lawyer who has been interim U.S. legal professional for the Jap District of Virginia for about quarter-hour, that there’s no possible trigger to prosecute New York Legal professional Common Letitia James for mortgage fraud. 

How dare she? 

Seems to be like Halligan goes to should roll up her sleeves and maintain this herself, similar to she did with bringing fees towards former FBI Director James Comey. Certain, the indictment was comically skinny, and certain, she didn’t handle to make one of many ginned-up fees stick, and certain, she needed to current it to the grand jury herself. 

Halligan, after all, was put in in her job as a result of she’s completely blissful to tackle the shoddiest, most vindictive prosecutions. She was introduced in to deliver fees towards Comey after her predecessor, Eric Siebert, stated he wouldn’t. 

Trump took a victory lap after Halligan secured an indictment towards Comey, however for all of the fanfare over that, there may be a lot extra that has to occur earlier than Trump can reside out his fantasy of placing Comey behind bars. 

Sadly for Trump, all of these steps require prosecutors. Many, really. 

For the time being, Halligan would possibly want to think about a crash course in trial preparation, as a result of as of Tuesday, no profession attorneys from her workplace have entered an look in Comey’s case, regardless that the arraignment is on Wednesday. Although to be honest, Halligan most likely doesn’t find out about this, since she’s by no means been a prosecutor and her solely consumer as a protection legal professional was Trump.

As an alternative, it seems like Halligan goes to herald prosecutors from outdoors her workplace. Can’t look ahead to a passel of freshly minted Liberty College College of Legislation graduates to deal with a politically explosive and high-profile prosecution. Nicely, no less than those that weren’t sensible or vicious sufficient to land a clerkship with the various Trump judges desperate to mildew new child fascists.

In the meantime, in terms of the Trump administration’s eagerness to have one state invade one other, it appears to all relaxation—legally talking—on the shoulders of 1 lawyer: Eric Hamilton. 

A protester stands draped in an American flag watches as law enforcement officers try to disperse protesters near a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Ore. on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
A protester stands draped in an American flag as officers attempt to disperse protesters close to an ICE facility in Portland on Oct. 5.

Hamilton dealt with Sunday night time’s listening to about deploying Nationwide Guard troops to Oregon and was then bundled off to Illinois to argue about how cool and authorized it will be if Texas troops have been deployed to Chicago.

Usually, after all, there’s a veritable military of DOJ attorneys to deal with this stuff. However between resignations and purges, the DOJ doesn’t have quite a bit left within the tank. 

The company misplaced 70% of its civil rights division. The highest nationwide safety prosecutor within the Jap District of Virginia was simply purged. A number of high-level prosecutors who refused to log off on the DOJ’s quid professional quo with Mayor Eric Adams have been additionally fired. Two-thirds of the attorneys tasked with defending Trump’s signature initiatives—like birthright citizenship and immigration—have bolted. And Trump has quickly depleted your entire federal legal professional bench. 

That is additionally why there’s such turmoil amongst some U.S. attorneys proper now. Trump is aware of he can’t get individuals like Alina Habba—one other of his former private attorneys—or Halligan confirmed by the Senate. However he additionally is aware of that solely essentially the most bone-deep partisan loyalists will do his bidding. 

Ultimately, all that the DOJ may have left are individuals who beforehand represented Trump in some private capability. Happily for Trump, that’s lots of people. Sadly for the remainder of us, all of them suck.

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