{"id":128972,"date":"2025-07-31T06:42:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/31\/assistant-u-s-attorneys-are-heading-for-the-exits-thanks-to-political-creep-into-government-work\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T06:42:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:42:21","slug":"assistant-u-s-attorneys-are-heading-for-the-exits-thanks-to-political-creep-into-government-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/31\/assistant-u-s-attorneys-are-heading-for-the-exits-thanks-to-political-creep-into-government-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Assistant U.S. Attorneys Are Heading For The Exits Thanks To Political Creep Into Government Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

[P]eople [in the New Jersey office] are concerned about leadership of the office and their directives about which cases to pursue or not to pursue.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is not the normal course of business, not by any means. We\u2019re getting lots of inquiries from AUSAs in the [New Jersey] office and other offices. There\u2019s definitely been an uptick in people reaching out to us.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>David Garber, founder and principal of the Princeton Legal Search Group, in comments given to the New York Law Journal<\/a>, concerning assistant U.S. attorneys from the Southern District of New York and the District of New Jersey who are eager to find new jobs in light of the politicization of their jobs in the Trump II era. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Assistant U.S. Attorneys Are Heading For The Exits Thanks To Political Creep Into Government Work<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

[P]eople [in the New Jersey office] are concerned about leadership of the office and their directives about which cases to pursue or not to pursue.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is not the normal course of business, not by any means. We\u2019re getting lots of inquiries from AUSAs in the [New Jersey] office and other offices. There\u2019s definitely been an uptick in people reaching out to us.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>David Garber, founder and principal of the Princeton Legal Search Group, in comments given to the New York Law Journal<\/a>, concerning assistant U.S. attorneys from the Southern District of New York and the District of New Jersey who are eager to find new jobs in light of the politicization of their jobs in the Trump II era. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. [P]eople [in the New Jersey office] are concerned about leadership of the office and their directives about which cases to pursue or not to pursue. This is not the normal course of business, not by any means. We\u2019re getting lots of inquiries from AUSAs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":128890,"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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Staci-Zaretsky-zAxGIb.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128972","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=128972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}