It appears that forcing your staff to engage in legally unwinnable and unwinnable prosecutions against protesters results in an unhappy staff.
In Chicago, this means that there has been a rush for the exit at the US Attorney's office.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago is among the most prestigious in the country, known for winning ambitious cases against everyone from Al Capone to the former Illinois governor Rod R. Blagojevich.
But the Trump administration’s immigration sweep in Chicago last fall has left the office in crisis.
The office brought a wave of doomed cases that accused protesters and immigrants of assaulting federal officers. That accelerated an exodus of veteran prosecutors, some of whom felt they’d been wrongly pressured into pursuing the charges, former prosecutors said in interviews.
The heads of all seven sections of the Chicago office’s criminal division have left in the past year, as have many of their successors and deputies.
More than 100 former federal prosecutors from the office recently signed a letter criticizing Andrew S. Boutros, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, saying that “actions taken by leadership in the last year have tarnished the reputation” of the office.
I'm an engineer, not a lawyer, dammit, ⃰ but it seems to me that these lawyers should just quit and file bar complaints against Boutros.
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