More resignations of federal prosecutors are expected at the US Attorney’s Office in Minnesota amid ongoing frustration over the Trump administration’s response to the fatal shooting of Renée Good by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.
“I have heard there may be more people leaving, people I would consider senior and respected career prosecutors,” said Anders Folk, a former acting US attorney in Minnesota, who left the office in 2021 to work for the Justice Department in Washington, DC, under former President Biden.
Minnesota Federal Defender Katherian Roe, in a staffwide email obtained by the Sahan Journal, also wrote that “more resignations are anticipated” at the US Attorney’s Office. “It’s a sign that something is not right” there, added Folk, who is still in touch with colleagues in the office and is now running for Hennepin County Attorney.
Already this week, at least five federal prosecutors in Minnesota announced their resignations. Among them was the office’s second-in-command, Joseph Thompson, who was overseeing the welfare fraud investigation involving Somali immigrants that President Trump used as a pretext to send his immigration force to Minneapolis.
Americans don’t fight for what they believe in. They quit and hide.
Pathetic.
Mass resignations sounds like people standing up for what they believe in.
That only works in a normal state where people in lower actually care about the rule of law. They did the same in Germany some time ago and it didn’t end well.
While in that position you have the full power of your office. If you know how to weld it in principle you can at least slow them down if not stop them. Resigning you only make way for a lackey to step in and give them more steam. By resigning you just because another schmuck on the street.
So they absolutely run and hide!