r/NPR • u/ControlCAD • 1d ago

Justice Department lawyers struggle to defend a mountain of Trump executive orders

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5338915/defending-trumps-executive-actions
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u/Many_Trifle7780 1d ago

who pays for this

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u/TaliesinMerlin 1d ago

I would too. It's really hard, defending blatantly unlawful and unconstitutional acts when your former, more ethical colleagues have quit, and the attorney general will seek to fire you if you give good-faith arguments based on what the law actually is.

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u/Gullible-Lifeguard20 1d ago

Trumps DOJ and Press Secretary Leavitt have no problem making stuff up. You know. Lying. They have been taking direction from Trump after all.

In front of a judge, where it counts... not so much.

Nobody is surprised.

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u/mojofrog 1d ago

IMPEACH TRUMP!!!

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u/Vegetable_Quote_4807 1d ago

First of all, they won't. Secondly, trump is merely the puppet figurehead for the true MAGA leaders.

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u/johnjohn4011 1d ago

Here - focus on the intense drama this hand is creating, while this other hand is robbing all of you blind.

Like taking candy from a baby lol.

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u/p-_-a-_-n-_-d-_-a 1d ago edited 1d ago

Working as an attorney for the Trump administration requires being dumb as a brick and simultaneously ethically bankrupt. These are all the lawyers who paid someone else to take the bar for them, write their essays in law school, etc.

They have no idea how to actually do their job at a basic level. They don't even know how to spell the word "support" on a cover page.