In case it somehow wasn't already obvious how completely repellent the administration's legal harassment of Becca Good (Renee Good's widow) is, *six* senior career prosecutors in the local US Attorney's office resigned today because they wanted no part of it.
SIX.
Those six could shift to her defense team and help end these messes.
I think it is long past time for lawyers to make more complaints to their state bar associations and urge them to be quicker to investigate and fast track disciplinary cases (for the incompetent amoral whack jobs replacements that are sure to come).
If states move faster to discipline, they won't do so much damage- they have disbarred people (Guliani, Eastman, others) but do it sooner, before so much damage is done.Stop those careers earlier in the pipeline.
@mattblaze are we really crying for career state prosecutors in a country with the 5th highest incarceration rate in the world? 1.8 million people in prison.
I think we're up to 11 now
@darwinwoodka They've unleashed something with this.
@mattblaze
The best thing they could have done was refuse to be complicit, but not resign and stay in post.
By resigning, that just speeds up the process of the installation of a complicit replacement. Stay in post and tell em to get fucked.
@davidgrieve @mattblaze that's not how it works in those jobs.
@srvanderplas @davidgrieve @mattblaze Then how does it work? Is the point that resigning is more politically loud (and as such, can have more impact) than being fired after doing your job properly?
@dragonfi @srvanderplas @davidgrieve These resignations have been top stories in most of the national news media outlets all day. That is an enormous amount of attention. It seems profound strange to deny that.
@mattblaze @dragonfi @srvanderplas
I suppose them all going at the same time adds to the impact of it.
We (you, I'm in the UK) are through the looking glass a bit here. Normal rules don't apply any more. I would say it's time to really start to push back with everything you have available to you (before it's too late).
Wow
"More [now six] prosecutors resign as DOJ orders investigation of Renee Good's widow"
by Travis Gettys
January 13, 2026 1:43PM ET
Harry Litman
@bsky.app.profile.harrylitman.bsky.social
The Minnesota shooting case is now metastasizing unlike any i've ever seen. The successive resignations of heads of the crim section at CRD and 3 top career prosecutors in Minn -- who had hung in all this year n/w/stg multiple outrages-- means the Department is in open revolt in DC and the field.
@jackcole @mattblaze @bsky.app.profile.harrylitman.bsky.social
Understand, they'll just install someone compliant. They're gleefully happy when these folks resign, because it's less people to get in the way of their corruption.
@xenonchromatic @jackcole They could simply have fired them.
Resignations like this serve an important purpose. They bring a great deal of attention - especially among those familiar with the workings of agencies - to the gravity of a problem
One might reasonably wonder what you hope to accomplish by claiming it's futile.
@mattblaze @xenonchromatic @jackcole as a foreigner seeing all this from afar, my question to this is “whose attention, exactly?”
‘Cause what is going on within the ranks pretty much everywhere inside the federal government is IMO clear, at this point, to anyone who wants to see it, and has been for some time.
I doubt “more signal” is going to change the perception of those who still decided this is all OK…
@skull @xenonchromatic @jackcole Then I guess we should all just give up? Is that your point? No thanks.
@mattblaze @xenonchromatic @jackcole I don't think I've ever said that, did I?
I'm just debating your point that those resignations are -per se- obtaining something, other than keeping those people's conscience clear of this crap.
Which is fine, just probably irrelevant in the grand scheme.
@mattblaze @jackcole I was discussing this very point with my partner in a coffee shop this afternoon. Yes, 10, 20, 50 years ago, a resignation could send a "powerful message" that would be sufficient much of the time to pump the brakes on a political witch hunt. Matt, respectfully my guy, those days are gone. No amount of resigning to send a message is going to stop these people or change their path.
@mattblaze holy moly - It makes me all the more appreciative for every single person who still gets out there to protest, to film, to bear witness
Do we know of any Democratic politicians who are going out and standing or marching with people? Who’s helping to train / focus spotlights? ( @heidilifeldman this is a question I keep pondering for you as well)
@StephanieMoore there are local Dem pols doing this in Minneapolis @mattblaze
@mattblaze
Including the Trump appointed Joe Thompson, who only 2 weeks ago was going to investigate the Walz admin regarding fraud.
@mattblaze fuck. Led by utter scumbags.
@mattblaze 🔥🔥🔥
Unfortunately, they will be replaced by loyalists
What every US citizen can simply do NOW:
get an ever growing mass of concerned to
contact their reps, write/phone/email/scream outside their offices,
with #impeachment demand, or, we #primary you with someone who will;
find those candidates https://www.citizensimpeachment.com/
https://www.house.gov/representatives/find-your-representative#
do #Democracy
I hope you, and the people you are in contact with, contact your congressional representatives, demand the return of our country, that they immediately impeach Trump!
@mattblaze For comparison, only the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General resigned during Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre. To see six high-ranking people resign in protest...
I'm fucking exhausted, boss.
@mattblaze
If they've been fine with things thus far, the distinction now may be that their job would involve conduct likely to get them personally charged and/or disbarred at some point.
@me_valentijn @mattblaze the majority of people in the justice department may not have been asked to do something illegal or immoral yet. I can imagine most priorities continue and it would be possible to keep doing the job, concluding that if you resign they'll replace you with someone who is incompetent and partisan. But at some point if you're asked to follow an illegal order, your choices are basically comply or resign and they chose resign. Whatever their personal line is, we agree here.
@srvanderplas @me_valentijn Indeed. The majority of the work of the Justice Department is the day-to-day, relatively apolitical turning of the gears of government. Whatever one thinks of specific laws they enforce or cases, you can't have a criminal justice system without prosecutors, to say nothing of the civil cases in which they have the duty to represent the US. It's highly reductive - and inaccurate - to paint everyone there as MAGA tools.
@mattblaze @srvanderplas
There's room for a substantial gap between the largely incompetent MAGA true believers and the professionals who aren't particularly bothered by enabling them, as long as they can maintain their profession and reputation in the process.
Some non-MAGAs bailing out now may indeed be earnest in seeking to do the right thing, or even hoped to be the inside-guy who could leak or take action at the opportune time (somehow without getting disbarred in the process). But odds are they're just indifferent to the evils being perpetrated by their agency, until they're ordered to do something which will have personal and professional consequences for themselves.
Exceeding personal moral boundaries would have people leaving in trickles as different people have different boundaries. A mass exodus suggests a shared threshold has been reached, and that would most likely involve being ordered to do something either illegal or in serious violation of legal ethics as regulated by their bar association.
Of course I hope that they're all resigning because they're fundamentally decent human beings, and will eventually make statements to that effect. But at this point the clearest signal from their mass resignation is simply that the DOJ is attempting to use its powers to engage in unambiguously illegal, unjust, and unethical actions.
