DOJ attorneys bolt after being forced to work on 'sham' anti-immigrant team: report

Source: Raw Story

August 30, 2025 11:00AM ET


The dozen or so high-ranking Department of Justice attorneys who were reassigned to the DOJ's Sanctuary Cities Enforcement working group have all quit, the Washington Post is reporting on Saturday. According to the report from Post’s Perry Stein, a the time of the reassignment they were told to either accept the move or resign and, as of this week, the last attorney who accepted the move has now quit.

The report notes that those who accepted the move soon realized it had no function other than to sideline them with the hope that they would give up and leave the DOJ.

As the Post’s Stein wrote, “Six months later, all of those attorneys have left DOJ for good, the last one packing up this week. And five people familiar with the working group say they got the impression that the task force was designed to do nothing but frustrate and eventually force out lawyers the administration felt it could replace with people more loyal to the president.”

The report notes that little legal work was being done with career attorneys assigned to “...do Google-type searches and other menial research on those [sanctuary] policies — and were told there was no need to communicate with the lawyers who were actually filing high-profile lawsuits against such jurisdictions as Los Angeles, New York and Denver.”

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