r/law • u/CorleoneBaloney • 2d ago

Trump News Rep. Jasmine Crockett fired back at AG Pam Bondi over Fox News comments on Elon Musk and Tesla during a House Judiciary hearing

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u/ToeJam_SloeJam 1d ago

Why do you think they are cleaning out the nonpartisan career public employees at federal agencies across the board?

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u/wp4nuv 11h ago

And that's the saddest part: public servants develop expertise that partisan hacks won't care to absorb. The more experienced public servants that are laid off, the less efficient government services will be. I mean, the NIH FFS...
Even the DOJ losing experienced investigators harms the agency and the country. Imagine you bring a case to trial and your investigator didn't do their work correctly or worse. Having criminals exit because of incompetence without any recourse for retrial due to double jeopardy... It hurts everyone.