At least eight top lawyers in the Justice Department’s solicitor general’s office are fleeing the elite team, which is responsible for arguing on behalf of the Trump administration before the Supreme Court. Via Talking Points Memo:
The turnover is high for the office in general, according to the Washington Post and the experts who spoke to the publication — and is especially high when you consider that the Trump administration is involved in lots of litigation with multiple cases challenging Trump’s lawless executive actions already before or on track to reach the high court. The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to help it on its warpath to dismantle large swaths of the federal government and expand its deportation efforts, issues that look likely to come before the Court again and again. The administration has also, by all appearances, defied judicial orders it doesn’t like along its way.
