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There was a time when wrongdoers quaked in their boots at the thought of a federal indictment. Federal prosecutors were veterans. And if they carried even the whiff of inexperience, the co-workers surrounding them and guiding their work were almost guaranteed to have whole decades of experience beneath their belts.<\/p>\n

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A federal prosecution was something to be feared \u2014 but that was before the arrival of the second Trump administration, according to Politico. Nowadays you can be on the bad end of a Trump DOJ indictment and bear witness to all manner of embarrassing courtroom stumbles, snafus and mishap.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome U.S. attorneys who have never worked in a federal prosecutor\u2019s office have taken steps that would be considered unusual for anyone familiar with the customs and practices of the Justice Department,\u201d reports Politico. \u201cIn Nevada, Sigal Chattah, who is leading the U.S. attorney\u2019s office as first assistant after a federal judge disqualified her from holding the top job, ordered the last-minute cancellation of a plea deal that had been directed and approved by the supervising attorney in the office\u2019s criminal division.\u201d<\/p>\n

It turned out the defendant in that case was seeking to disqualify Chattah from the prosecution \u2014 probably successfully \u2014 because Chattah had already been bumped from supervising four other criminal prosecutions.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Politico reports the U.S. attorney for the middle district of North Carolina, a former GOP lawmaker and election denier who voted against certifying the legitimate 2020 election of Joe Biden, is now a special prosecutor in charge of pursuing \u201celection fraud.\u201d Politico reports Dan Bishop\u2019s early efforts have included pushing the FBI to revisit inquiries it had already concluded were pointless.<\/p>\n

Trump is picking people for U.S. attorney jobs who have never worked as a prosecutor because of his \u201ctendency to value loyalty over professional qualifications,\u201d reports Politico.<\/p>\n

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But without having worked as a line prosecutor, \u201cthey don\u2019t have anything to compare it to,\u201d said Mimi Rocah, a former federal prosecutor who is writing a book on the justice system during Trump\u2019s presidency. \u201cIt\u2019s much harder for them to say why\u201d the office should decline to pursue a case, she said.<\/p>\n

With only a year and some months into his second term, Politico reports Trump already has three people who lacked prosecutorial experience losing their U.S. attorney posts: Lindsey Halligan, Alina Habba and Ed Martin.<\/p>\n

Halligan got disqualified by U.S. District Judge Cameron Currie, who also flushed indictments Halligan obtained against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James. And other judges said Halligan had bumbled the grand jury process.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike Halligan, Habba became U.S. attorney after working as one of Trump\u2019s personal lawyers. Habba served in New Jersey, where a federal judge criticized her for the \u2018hasty arrest\u2019 and speedy dismissal of charges against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, a Democrat who was detained following an incident at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. U.S. Magistrate Judge Andr\u00e9 M. Espinosa said the episode \u201csuggests a worrisome misstep\u201d by Habba\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Martin, the former U.S. attorney for Washington, is up against disciplinary charges from the D.C. Bar for his behavior while leading the office, including threatening to withhold funding from Georgetown University\u2019s Law Center and barring his staff from hiring its students in a bid to punish the institution for its DEI practices \u2014 a First Amendment violation, according to the Bar.<\/p>\n

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