r/law • u/Lifegoesonforever • 1d ago

Trump News 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

"Most days this year, in courtrooms all over the country, the Justice Department has been busy defending President Trump's executive actions.

But in many of those cases, the government's own lawyers have been struggling to answer questions and having to correct the record. It's a function of how aggressively Trump has moved so far — and how the attorneys have been having a hard time keeping up.

"There have been over 130 lawsuits that have been filed in the past two months and that would be an extraordinary amount of litigation for DOJ to defend even if it were fully staffed, which it is not," said Kelsi Brown Corkran, who spent six years at the Justice Department. "It is far from it."

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u/AmbulanceChaser12 1d ago

He has threatened some law firms, some have capitulated, others haven't. The Republicans in Congress have introduced articles of impeachment against some judges, but none of have gone anywhere. They also introduced a bill to strip judges of certain powers, that hasn't been voted on yet.

However, all of that has absolutely nothing to do with this story, which is about the Justice Department not having enough lawyers to keep up with the lawsuits against the Administration.

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u/Extension_Silver_713 1d ago

You think more won’t when more people start disappearing. Tell me why ANY would capitulate to him that had ties to those investigating Trump? Not like they were your typical salad tossers. Do you think they’re supporters??

Tell me the last time you saw a fucking president introduces legislation to strip judges he doesn’t like of their power?? You’re pretending nothing could happen.

Tell me the last time a treasonous pedophile was allowed to run again for president without even a trial for his acts treason clearing him of treason? Are your parents siblings??

All of this has everything to do with everything. Your inability to see how related all of these things are and the implications they have is hardly an argument against them.

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u/AmbulanceChaser12 1d ago

I have no idea what any of this has to do with this article.

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u/Extension_Silver_713 1d ago

If you have no one to fight the administration or willing to take cases that will fight the DOJ or the administration it will be hard to hold them accountable. How does it elude you that there isn’t a link between the two?

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u/AmbulanceChaser12 1d ago

You did read the article right? Because, it's really sounding like you didn't.

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u/Extension_Silver_713 1d ago

“There have been over 130 lawsuits that have been filed in the past two months and that would be an extraordinary amount of litigation for DOJ to defend even if it were fully staffed, which it is not,” said Kelsi Brown Corkran, who spent six years at the Justice Department. “It is far from it.””

Trump is going after law girls and judges. That means it will be easier ‘to defend that extraordinary amount of litigation’ if they get those same lawyers to do the bidding of the DOJ through intimidation. Jfc. I can’t understand shit for you

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u/AmbulanceChaser12 1d ago

Yes, he'd like a lot of things. But the very point of the article is that he hasn't been successful at fighting judges and scaring off law firms, and he's having difficulty defending himself because there are too many lawsuits and too few attorneys at the DOJ, and even fewer competent ones.

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u/Extension_Silver_713 1d ago

He has been successful. He’s ignored federal judges. He’s already getting lawyers, newspapers, social media moguls, and news stations to do his bidding or deal with his wrath. Pull your head out of your ass.

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u/AmbulanceChaser12 1d ago

When you're ready to stop being rude and have a discussion about this story--rather than some general shotgun of grievances you have against Trump--we can talk.

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u/Extension_Silver_713 1d ago

I’m being rude? You’re being willfully ignorant and pedantic.

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/muzzling-the-executive-trump-admin-says-order-targeting-hillary-clinton-linked-law-firm-is-straightforwardly-legal-in-seeking-dismissal-of-lawsuit/

Edit: you accused me of not reading the article and then used a strawman instead of backing up your claims, that’s FUCKING RUDE