DOJ mass exodus could benefit Bondi in immigration fight

In a roundabout way, Kilmar Abrego Garcia may have actually enabled the Trump administration to carry out its deportation agenda.

If you recall, between Bondi's firing or reassigning attorneys and DOJ staffers leaving over disagreements about the deportation agenda, it is mostly Trump loyalists who are still in place.

That will make it much easier for Trump to get his agenda passed, all because of the many attorneys who left in protest to support Garcia or raised objections in other cases they were overseeing. 

Cleaning House

First, numerous DOJ attorneys were fired or walked out over the deportation agenda of this administration.

When there was a resistance on this front, Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a memo, which stated, “At my direction, every Department of Justice attorney is required to zealously advocate on behalf of the United States.

“Any attorney who fails to abide by this direction will face consequences.”

The most high-profile attorney to be put on leave over this was Erez Reuveni, who Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche accused of failing to “follow a directive from your superiors.”

Uprising

There were also numerous attorneys who walked out over the charges being dropped against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

Danielle Sassoon was among them, telling Bondi, “I have always considered it my obligation to pursue justice impartially, without favor to the wealthy or those who occupy important public office, or harsher treatment for the less powerful.

“I cannot fulfill my obligations, effectively lead my office in carrying out the Department’s priorities, or credibly represent the Government before the courts, if I seek to dismiss the Adams case on this record.”

She was one of many, and I am already on the record saying that I did not support those charges being dropped, as I believe Adams is as corrupt as the day is long. I don’t blame any of them for leaving, but this further cemented that only Trump loyalists were in the department, willing to carry out any order by the administration.

And Here We Are

While I did not support the Adams issue, I have been very clear that I do firmly support Trump’s immigration agenda, and the shedding of the resistance in the DOJ over these two issues has likely helped the DOJ and the Trump administration, as there is now very little, if any, resistance within.

Ben Schrader, a U.S. prosecutor who spent 25 years with the Department of Justice, may have been Garcia’s last hope, but he resigned when Garcia was brought back to Tennessee to face the charges related to the bodycam footage from the traffic stop.

Upon resigning, he posted to his LinkedIn profile, "It has been an incredible privilege to serve as a prosecutor with the Department of Justice, where the only job description I've ever known is to do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons.”

What all this has done is ensure that every attorney in the DOJ right now, or at least most of them, supports the administration’s agenda. This will be great for Trump, but if I were these attorneys, I would start looking for a new job the next time Republicans lose a presidential election because Democrats are going to take a flamethrower to it. But for now, it is full speed ahead for Trump.