{"id":2317,"date":"2025-01-27T10:10:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T10:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-administration-moves-swiftly-to-shake-up-top-career-justice-dept-ranks\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T10:10:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T10:10:29","slug":"trump-administration-moves-swiftly-to-shake-up-top-career-justice-dept-ranks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trump-administration-moves-swiftly-to-shake-up-top-career-justice-dept-ranks\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Moves Swiftly to Shake Up Top Career Justice Dept. Ranks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The frenetic scale and speed of leadership changes that the Trump administration has made at the Justice Department in its first week alone indicate the degree to which it intends to remake not just the political direction of the department, but also the makeup of its senior career ranks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Senior officials handling national security and public corruption at the department <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/21\/us\/politics\/trump-us-attorneys-justice-department.html\" title=\"\">have been transferred<\/a> to areas far outside their expertise, as have high-ranking employees overseeing environmental, antitrust and criminal cases. Top officials <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/20\/us\/politics\/trump-administration-fires-immigration-judges.html\" title=\"\">overseeing the immigration court system<\/a> were outright fired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Every new administration replaces the political leadership of federal agencies and, over time, changes some of the senior career officials. But what happened in just a matter of days at the department is much different \u2014 sloughing off decades of apolitical expertise to new assignments widely seen in the building as punishments likely to result in resignations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Collectively, the early moves suggest a deep distrust of the career, nonpartisan staff that typically makes recommendations to the political appointees on whether to charge cases, negotiate settlements or close cases without taking action.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">President Trump and his backers have long complained about a \u201cdeep state\u201d of career government officials who they believe are hostile to Republican political leadership, and in many ways, the moves are a blitz against parts of the department that enforce laws that some conservatives do not like but cannot get Congress to change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the Environment and Natural Resources Division, which brings civil and criminal cases to enforce the nation\u2019s environmental protection laws, attorneys have been ordered to freeze all of its efforts, including making no court filings. For the time being, it cannot file new complaints about companies that are breaking environmental laws, lodge or enter consent decrees to wind down such litigation, or move to intervene in other cases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The order has led to early problems because the division was negotiating settlements to existing lawsuits and, in some instances, was required by court order to issue filings, like procedural updates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The changes also targeted some of the career officials who carry the most authority and institutional experience. At least four of the environment division\u2019s section chiefs \u2014 nearly half its total \u2014 were reassigned last week to a newly created task force focused on going after so-called sanctuary cities that do not cooperate with immigration enforcement as much as the new administration would like.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Most of the senior officials who have been reassigned to immigration issues have little to no legal expertise in the field, having dedicated their legal careers to other issues, such as environmental law. They were told that their pay would remain unchanged and that they had up to 15 days to either accept the transfer or face the possibility of being fired.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some of the measures underway at the department \u2014 like the reassignment of the head of the public integrity section, or a senior official handling national security investigations \u2014 are not entirely surprising. Mr. Trump has made plain his distaste for the Justice Department and the F.B.I. over criminal investigations of him and his allies, referring to them over the years as \u201cscum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But in the case of some of the reassignments, career officials in the Justice Department find it hard to discern a reason, other than removing people whose legal views carry great weight in the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some Justice Department staff members question whether the decisions violate civil service employment rules, particularly in the case of <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/20\/us\/politics\/trump-administration-fires-immigration-judges.html\" title=\"\">four senior officials<\/a> in the office that handles immigration cases. Those people were fired outright, according to multiple people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to publicly discuss personnel matters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Current and former Justice Department officials described the rapid-fire changes as harrowing for those affected. Multiple people last week described tearful discussions with colleagues who were suddenly forced to consider whether to quit, sue or silently accept their new posting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The reassignment of the senior environmental lawyers is viewed by some in the division as effectively decapitating their leadership structure and demoralizing the officials who remain, according to people familiar with the changes who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Andrew Mergen, who retired in 2023 after more than three decades at the division, said that while senior officials were sometimes reshuffled under previous administrations, it was \u201cmore as a prerogative of management than sort of as this big political move. So nothing like this has ever happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He said he worried that the moves might drive away the department\u2019s institutional expertise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cEverybody who was there the day that Trump walked in had made the choice to work in the Trump administration, and to do their very best,\u201d Mr. Mergen said, warning of the consequences if there were an exodus of career officials. \u201cIt will be a loss to the country if these people leave, and if other attorneys in the Justice Department leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A spokesman for the environment division declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The reassignments at the Justice Department have targeted members of the Senior Executive Service \u2014 the upper echelon of career employees, who serve directly for the political appointees at agencies. According to the Office of Management and Budget, such employees \u201care the major link between these appointees and the rest of the federal work force,\u201d because they \u201coperate and oversee nearly every government activity in approximately 75 federal agencies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">David M. Uhlmann, who was the head of environmental enforcement at the Environmental Protection Agency during the Biden administration, said that simply removing those chiefs \u201cis not going to bring the work of government to a screeching halt,\u201d because their deputies can assume their responsibilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But it did underline the Trump administration\u2019s approach to environmental regulation, he said. \u201cThe message it sends is that the Trump administration does not intend to hold polluters accountable and is not concerned about protecting communities from harmful pollution,\u201d Mr. Uhlmann said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The division was also affected by Mr. Trump\u2019s executive order banning diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. While it has none, a small Office of Environmental Justice dates back to an <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/files\/federal-register\/executive-orders\/pdf\/12898.pdf\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">executive order<\/a> issued under the Clinton administration that aims to address pollution and health risks that low-income and minority communities disproportionately experienced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">After Mr. Trump revoked that executive order in recent days, the division was told it could not take any steps that would have advanced its goals. And, like others involved with initiatives that promote diversity across the government, career employees of the division who worked for the environmental justice office have been placed on administrative leave, according to people familiar with the moves, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As part of the administration\u2019s push to freeze hiring across all agencies, the Justice Department has also rescinded job offers to its honors program. And like other agencies, the department has been told to submit a list of all probationary employees to the White House, meaning those who have not yet served long enough in their roles and so are not yet entitled to full protection by civil service laws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It is unclear what officials plan to do with the list, but the request has elicited concern that it would lead to the mass dismissal of relatively new hires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Lisa Friedman<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/27\/us\/trump-justice-department-career-ranks.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The frenetic scale and speed of leadership changes that the Trump administration has made at the Justice Department in its<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[202,103,649,114,235,104,117,646,647,193,113,648,111],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us","tag-appointments-and-executive-changes","tag-biden","tag-david-m","tag-donald-j","tag-government-employees","tag-joseph-r-jr","tag-justice-department","tag-office-of-environmental-justice-us","tag-office-of-management-and-budget-us","tag-suits-and-litigation-civil","tag-trump","tag-uhlmann","tag-united-states-politics-and-government"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trump Administration Moves Swiftly to Shake Up Top Career Justice Dept. 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