"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."
"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."
The Minnesota situation illustrates deep dysfunction at the Justice Department as the Trump administration undermines judges while failing legal obligations. The administration is attempting to fill AUSA vacancies by soliciting applicants via Twitter (Elon Musk's platform), echoing ICE's prior practice of recruiting underqualified personnel and failing to train them to follow basic federal law enforcement rules. On the ground, applications remain thin despite outreach by officials like Chad Mizelle. DOJ attorney Julie Le told Judge Blackwell, "The system sucks, this job sucks," reflecting low morale amid recorded incidents of DOJ attorneys lying to courts. Institutional guardrails have so far resisted systemic overwhelm.
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