Episode 31: DOJ and DOGE

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All Lawyers Are Bad

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4.8 • 869 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Andy and Charles talk about the litigation over the blanket USAID contractual "pause" through the lens of Andy's former job as a federal civil trial attorney and how DOGE is probably wreaking havoc throughout the DOJ civil branches. Andy - https://bsky.app/profile/wyattprivilege.bsky.social Charles - https://bsky.app/profile/ugarles.bsky.social All music from https://bsky.app/profile/gloomfather.bsky.social. Listen to his music at https://orlandogloom.bandcamp.com/ Sound engineering by Snxwyfish. Listen to his music at https://snxwyfish.bandcamp.com/.

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0:00.0	Now, apologies to any of my former colleagues who were listening to this.
0:04.2	I'm not here to trash you guys.
0:05.8	I still love you a lot.
0:07.9	You guys taught me everything I know about being a lawyer,
0:10.9	and I love my time there very sincerely.
0:14.1	So I left that job last year, middle of last year,
0:19.7	because, as I told the director at the time, I'm like a hundred
0:23.7	percent certain that Donald Trump is going to be reelected president. And my family, we
0:29.6	wanted to move our family out of the DC area anyway, but like I was very certain of that
0:35.2	and also that remote work would be going away because the writing was on the
0:38.4	wall well before the trump admin i was so deluded i was one of the people who uh at the time felt i had
0:46.9	like i loved comalus stepping in because it made my belief that even biden would have won non-falsifiable.
0:56.3	And then she lost
0:58.0	making it very falsifiable.
0:59.4	It's pretty fucking falsifiable now. I'm I'm I'm
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