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Jay Willis
@jaywillis.net

When I was in law school, working for the Justice Department was this prestige career that students dreamed about having someday. Now, Trump has so thoroughly poisoned its reputation that it’s dangling $25K to get people to *consider* jobs that literally thousands of lawyers would have killed for.

open.substack.comThe Justice Department Offers America’s Least Employable Lawyers $25,000 to Humiliate Themselves In PublicIn response to an ongoing staff shortage, the Trump administration launches a real-world experiment to see how much an attorney’s reputation is worth.
Jay Willis
@jaywillis.net

Do you understand how embarrassing working for the DOJ has to be for it to have to beg for applicants like this? It has never been a better time to be a reactionary lawyer who wants to make the jump to the public sector. And they’re all looking at the Trump DOJ and saying, “Nah I’m good”

open.substack.comThe Justice Department Offers America’s Least Employable Lawyers $25,000 to Humiliate Themselves In PublicIn response to an ongoing staff shortage, the Trump administration launches a real-world experiment to see how much an attorney’s reputation is worth.

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Vaudeville Vanillin
@lovovmelife.bsky.social

It was never conservatives’ dream job though. Sure, it was some. But the majority of them hate government and love money. The incentive to pull them from the private sector is the opportunity for power and graft. His former attorneys get the positions that carry that. New entrants won’t.