General Discussion

and was pleasantly surprised when I actually got an interview, which went well, but I didn't get the job. Even so, just getting an interview felt like a small professional triumph, since in those days AUSA jobs were in high demand. Now, though, it seems that if you graduate at the bottom of your class from Big Al's Bait Shop and Legal Academy, pass the bar on the fourth try, get turned down by Saul Goodman, and you can't afford to open your own office in the basement of a nail salon in Albuquerque, you apply for an AUSA job under an assumed name and with a paper bag over your head, and they'll probably take you and give you a signing bonus. But who wants the permanent stank of the Trump DoJ on their resume, assuming you even have a law license after doing whatever legal atrocity you are ordered to do?