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Trump DOJ is buckling as caseloads explode while staffing withers
What happened
AlterNet, citing The Hill’s review of internal Justice Department metrics, reports that the Trump administration’s immigration policies have sharply increased the department’s legal workload while staffing has fallen. The Civil Division’s Office of Immigration Litigation lost nearly 80 attorneys as its workload rose 63 percent.
The office reportedly shrank from about 320 attorneys at the start of Trump’s second term to 243 by August, while its caseload climbed from roughly 7,700 to nearly 9,500. Former DOJ official Margy O’Herron attributed the surge partly to historically low…
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