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and lawyers employed by DoJ are going to have to defend them. If DOGE keeps firing lawyers, or if they keep doing heinous things that cause a lot of lawyers to quit, who is going to handle all those cases? These are civil cases, not criminal prosecutions, and they'll need lawyers who understand not only the substantive law on which the cases are based, but also administrative law and the Administrative Procedure Act. Will they have them? Or will they have to rely on the remaining overworked junior lawyers who haven't been fired yet and lack either the expertise or/and the time to do the work? The plaintiffs have experienced lawyers from state AGs' offices and organizations like the ACLU, and I'm hoping, at least, that the DoJ lawyers who are left won't be able to keep up. I used to think the DoJ had the cream of the legal crop, but not any more.