Federal Prosecutor Used Fabricated Quotes in Court Filing (2)

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29. From what I've been reading about the state of the US Attorneys offices

(certainly the one in my district, which has lost more than half of its lawyers in the last six months), they are in sorry shape. A lot of lawyers, probably the best ones, have either been fired or have quit because they wouldn't do the unethical things their DoJ bosses wanted them to do. They've been trying to hire but there's a loyalty test; lawyers have to agree to advance the interests of Trump, not neutrally follow the law, so the best people aren't applying any more. AUSA jobs were once really desirable and prestigious (I actually got an AUSA interview as a new law grad, and even though I didn't get the job I was pretty proud of myself for just getting the interview); now they can't get anybody except hard-core MAGAs or people who are so desperate for a job that they'll agree to compromise their ethics. As a result the offices are so thinly and incompetently staffed that they're throwing their assignments into the AI cesspool and not cite-checking or editing the results just in order to get their work done on time.