Trump Administration Proposes Making Department Of Justice Lawyers Immune From Independent Ethics Investigations.

As if legal violations of legal ethics isn't a big enough problem already the Trump administration has proposed a new rule that aims to shield Department of Justice lawyers from independent ethics investigations.

Why you might well ask. Apparently because so many lawyers have quite the justice and it has becoem very difficult to recruit new ones. 

That was then. Now, under pressure to ignore a range of ethics rules, a large number of Department of Justice lawyers have quit, opting to lose their jobs but save their careers. Between these departures and a purge of legal staff members seen as insufficiently loyal to the president’s agenda, the department has lost thousands of lawyers. It shows: Briefs are riddled with errors. Lawyers come to court grossly unprepared. Worst, court orders stand violated — in some cases, it seems, because there weren’t enough lawyers available to ensure they were carried out.

To fill those empty seats, the department has begun an increasingly desperate effort to recruit hires. (“Don’t be scared off by the transcript requirement,” a conservative law school reportedly told its students. “G.P.A. is not a strong factor.”) Even so, it seems too few lawyers are willing to take the chance. So the Trump administration last week offered up a different solution: a proposed rule that aims to shield Department of Justice lawyers from independent ethics investigations.

An administration so corrupt even lawyers don't want to work for them.