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They should have just not said anything dragged their feet while at work while slowly eating up annual/sick leave to really slow everything down. Now there are 4 vacancies that could have been tied up for the better part of a year.
Bingo. Drag your feet, use up time. File shitty motions you know won't work to tie up the courts. Sabotage is hard work, but slowing the gears of the Orphan Crushing Machine is important and actually pretty easy to do when it's the federal government.
I agree with "don't quit, impede" philosophy, but a very public show of support against these fascist actions is not something to dismiss.
It's better strategically but you need to have the strength to do so. Sometimes people are overwhelmed by something and just need to get out of the situation and I think that is OK too. Everyone should do what they are capable off, but it should be fine to just stop doing wrong stuff.
Exactly. It's easy to tell people what they should be doing, from the outside.
A government derives its authority from the consent of the governed. The governed offer their consent as part of a social contract. The government's role in that contract is to represent the will of the governed by enforcing the laws passed by our representatives.
The reason it's easy for us to expect them to remain and enforce the law, is because that's what they promised us in exchange for following their laws and paying their taxes.
And the DoJ no longer had the consent of their prosecutors in Minnesota, so they walked, as was their right.
Walking out en masse and taking their combined years of experience with them was the right thing to do. Now the regime that already has a serious problem retaining legal talent has to go find some more talentless hacks to fill these empty positions, lol.
There's a reason Pam Bondi's truly pissed by this, and it's not all superficial.
Ok thx
Public servants have an obligation to the general public that overrides all other priorities. If you're not prepared to use your powers to resist fascism, or even corruption, on behalf of the public you serve, you shouldn't pursue a career in public service.
We consent to following their rules in exchange for them representing our will; that is the social contract between a government and her governed people.
Public servants are not the government. They have an obligation to do what the government tells them to do.
You write as though you have no idea whatsoever how this works in reality.
Go read up on Alina Habba and Lindsey Halligan. Great legs, mediocre attorneys, illegal appointments, and they've lost more for the regime than they ever even began to win.
Hell, I'll make it easy for you and give you a TL;DR: because the previous Virginia AG refused to prosecute revenge charges for Trump against his political enemies and walked out, and was replaced by Lindsey Halligan, the resulting questionable legal moves and political drama meant that in the end charges against James Comey and Letitia James have been dropped altogether. Similar situation with Alina Habba, who is now no longer New Jersey AG.
Or you find that you can't and quit.
ice is technically a public servant.... stupid treasonous mother fuckers
Weren't these the people earlier this week who supposedly resigned, of which people were complaining about. Now it comes out they were actually fired before they even could...
Maybe people should realize there might have been more going on that we aren't privy to.
All this 'not good enough' thinking does is breed toxicity and in-fighting. Both of which are not good when trying to form a solidarity.
The prosecutors announced their intent to resign, and would have done so after using up their allocated PTO. A fairly standard practice in professional environments. Pam Bondi fired them in retaliation for announcing their intent to resign
She claimed it was because they wanted a tax payer funded vacation, but anyone who understands the basics of unemployment, especially in Minnesota, can tell you she just gave them even more tax payer money (if they want it). Not only will they be entitled to their PTO, but they are not also entitled to unemployment
We also dont know the situation that led up to them resigning and getting fired. They very well could have been trying to drag their feet but were already under immense pressure to file charges immediately. No amount of feet dragging can help if the Nazis are literally hovering over you as you fill out the paperwork.
"Oh, yeah, you see how they checked this box here? That means we also need a DD-2319 form signed in triplicate here. That'll need to be approved by two levels of management, so we'll need to form a committee to assess its suitability before raising it for a vote during our Change Control Board meeting, which only occurs monthly. Sorry about that. Don't worry, I'll get it fast-tracked for you."
You do realize they likely don't care about doing things the right way, as they'll just have Trump approve any bypass, whether legal or not.
even moronic lawyers betting on trump over the constitution have to know there's no way that bloated sack of animated cholesterol is going to make it to 2028, and then where are they? working for couchfucker?
They aren't going to be able to fill these because fed attorney jobs pay dick and there is zero prestige to these postings now.
Well, maybe true for qualified people, the job title is no longer prestigious.
But for the scum of the earth? That job title legitimizes them, by comparison.
I think I know which type will be the ones applying...
Right, but the defining characteristic of those people is that they are also bad at their jobs. Look at what happened to their prosecutions of former prosecutors that charged Trump. The guys that left were undoubtedly CONSIDERABLY better at their jobs than whoever will replace them.
That's fair, and I'll take any silver lining at this point.
Some people just don't want to eat shit for a living.
not everyone seeks "lowering the bar" transgressions for feels
these people want to change the world not troll their boss