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DOJ Lawyers Quit Sanctuary Cities Task Force

Senior DOJ attorneys resigned from the Sanctuary Cities Enforcement task force after being assigned menial tasks unrelated to key lawsuits, citing sidelining in the administration's enforcement strategy.

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All of the lawyers assigned to the Justice Department's Sanctuary Cities Enforcement task force have now resigned, with the final member departing this week, after claiming they were not given substantive legal duties. "The assignment was a sham," Bonnie Robin-Vergeer, a former chief of the Civil Rights Division's appellate section who left after six weeks, told The Washington Post.

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DOJ Lawyers Quit Sanctuary Cities Task Force

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Mass Resignations at the Us Department of Justice

The US Justice Department is experiencing a severe internal crisis after several of its most senior, veteran lawyers were forced to resign, a move described as a deliberate attempt to marginalize independent professional voices. In the first weeks of President Donald Trump's current term, these lawyers were presented with two stark choices: either leave the department permanently or transfer to a hastily created new unit known as the "sanctuary …

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