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24. If they stayed, they'd be complicit in /tainted by what amounts to DHS lawlessness. Their leaving leaves DHS totally

Reply to RandySF (Reply #3)

Tue Jan 13, 2026, 04:15 PM

22 hrs ago

weak in the courts. Why?

Because federal judges are talking across the country; by now they can easily handle these cases well enough to adhere to facts and law, no matter who steps up to "prosecute."
Leaving maintains a huge, clean pool of federal prosecutors who will know what and how to bring cases against these lawless govt agencies when third parties with federal standing bring lawsuits.
That's a good thing.

In the long run it makes more sense for good, qualified, experienced prosecutors to refuse the lawless gaming going on with DHS, and preserve their ethical/legal standing as counsel, than to go along to get along with at-scale lawless DOJ duplicity.

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