{"id":117217,"date":"2025-05-01T01:59:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/01\/bondis-firing-of-doj-lawyer-for-lack-of-zealous-advocacy-in-deportation-case-raises-concerns\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T01:59:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T09:59:59","slug":"bondis-firing-of-doj-lawyer-for-lack-of-zealous-advocacy-in-deportation-case-raises-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/01\/bondis-firing-of-doj-lawyer-for-lack-of-zealous-advocacy-in-deportation-case-raises-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Bondi’s Firing of DOJ Lawyer for Lack of ‘Zealous Advocacy’ in Deportation Case Raises Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"

A leading legal ethics scholar warned that the U.S. attorney general’s action may “intimidate DOJ lawyers from exercising independent judgment.” The acting deputy director of the DOJ’s Office of Immigration Litigation was dismissed over his handling of a lawsuit challenging the deportation of a Maryland resident to El Salvador.<\/p>\n

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A leading legal ethics scholar warned that the U.S. attorney general’s action may “intimidate DOJ lawyers from exercising independent judgment.” The acting deputy director of the DOJ’s Office of Immigration Litigation was dismissed over his handling of a lawsuit challenging the deportation of a Maryland resident to El Salvador.<\/p>\n

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A leading legal ethics scholar warned that the U.S. attorney general’s action may “intimidate DOJ lawyers from exercising independent judgment.” The acting deputy director of the DOJ’s Office of Immigration Litigation was dismissed over his handling of a lawsuit challenging the deportation of a Maryland resident to El Salvador. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A leading legal ethics scholar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/legal-news-o1Wtoi.jpeg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}