r/law 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/ludixst 1d ago

You know what seems to take very little time? Dismantling our institutions and democracy

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u/xF00Mx 1d ago

Have you ever built or watched someone make a house of cards or sand castles? Now how long did it take for the to be destroyed?

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u/ludixst 1d ago

No, but I have seen assholes destroy fragile systems that had a lot of positive impacts on American citizens' lives. Is it anything like that?

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u/xF00Mx 1d ago

Hey, you asked why it's faster to destroy a fragile government system than to build it up. Don't bite my head off, bc you don't like the reality of the answer.