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  1. …in reply to @benjaminwittes
    @benjaminwittes @johnson_carrie This all assumes that the DOJ or the careerists within it who gave only token opposition to the lawlessness of the last years are worth saving or placating. Rehire the lawyers who resigned in protest, show the rest the door, with a bar referral instead of a recommendation.
    1. …in reply to @augustf
      @benjaminwittes @johnson_carrie Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve spent 20 years watching to DOJ diligently support utterly lawless positions on all kinds of issues at the White House’s behest. The nation needs lawyers of principle, no more poisonous “institutionalists” like Barr, Yoo, etc. Empty the place out.
      1. …in reply to @augustf
        @benjaminwittes @johnson_carrie Maybe people want to go back to the old DOJ, torching civil rights, justifying torture, and creating an executive branch that as long as it fills out the right forms, has no useful limits on its power. Barr showed why we could never go back to that now that the norms are gone.