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For years, there’s been a quiet understanding inside the Justice Department: when civil rights are violated in the most serious ways, there is one place that steps in when no one else will. It’s not flashy. It doesn’t chase cable hits. It handles the hardest cases: police violence, hate crimes, abuses of power. It does so knowing the work will be slow, ugly, and often unpopular.
That’s why what’s happening right now should stop you cold.
Inside the DOJ, the prosecutors who handle those cases are walking out. Not one or two. Veterans. Supervisors. People who built their careers on holding power accountable, regardless of who was in office.
This didn’t come out of nowhere. Over the past year, long-running civil-rights cases have quietly unraveled. Investigations that once followed a familiar path suddenly didn’t. Career lawyers started asking whether their work still mattered or whether decisions were being made somewhere else, for reasons that had nothing to do with justice.
When people who believe in the mission leave en masse, it’s not burnout. It’s a signal.
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