Trump, spoke to DOJ’s lawyer, said that those who fought him in court were ‘garbage’

When President Donald Trump spoke to the Department of Justice’s employees on Friday afternoon, he spoke to many lawyers who were assigned to defend their policies in court in more than 120 lawsuits.

For some of the lawyers, this is a challenging week, because judges in some cases appear skeptical of the government’s argument.

While defending policies such as the mass layoffs of the government or the tires of the Pentagon Transgender Service Members, a number of DOJ lawyers have found themselves lost words when trying to answer the questions raised to them.

“So, people with gender dysforia cannot be honest, humble, or have integrity. You think it is demeaning people with gender dysforia?” US Judge Ana Reyes asked DOJ’s lawyer on Wednesday at the service prohibition hearing.

“I can’t answer that question,” he replied.

Reyes then reprimanded each DOJ’s lawyer after they acknowledged that none of them read one of the scientific studies used to support the prohibition on the submission of the oath court.

During a controversial hearing in Maryland on Wednesday on Trump’s mass shooting – which finally made the judge watch the case to order around 20,000 government employees recovered – a DOJ lawyer could not answer when a judge urged him to confirm how many employees had been stopped.

“More than 50 or less than 50? … More than 100 or less than 100? … Less than 1,000?” Judge James Bedar asked, where the lawyer answered that he could not make an estimate at that time.

“You don’t know? … Is anyone in the government knowing?” The judge continued to press, only for government lawyers to say he did not know.

For the hearing on an emergency order to block the executive order of the Perkins Coie law firm, the Department of Justice chose to send Chad Mizelle, Chief of Staff of Attorney General Agung Pam Bondi, to debate on the name of the government. Mizelle’s full defense of the policy-which prohibits lawyers from the company from entering any government building-making judges beryl Howell said that the broad nature of some of his arguments send “cold in my spine.”

“When you say that if the president, in his view, takes a position that an individual or organization or company operates a way that is not in accordance with the interests of the country, he can issue executive orders like this and take steps to prohibit the individual, the entity, the company from doing any business with the government, ending any contract, they have, forbid them from federal buildings?” The word Howell.

“I mean, that is a very extraordinary force for the President to exercise,” the judge said.

“If he makes the findings that there is a national security risk with certain law firms, then yes,” Mizelle answered.

During the Friday speech at the Department of Justice, Trump accused, without providing evidence, that the media organization and the Democratic Party were colluding to challenge his government – and he urged lawyers to fight.

“They are terrible people. They are garbage,” Trump said about those who opposed it in court. “We will have these cases where you cannot allow yourself to be deflected. You can’t let it happen. You have a higher call.”

Trump’s visit to the Doj headquarters, where he put his vision for the department and repeatedly suggested that he had to imprison his political enemies, was the departure of several decades of post-water norms in which DOJ’s leadership had tried to maintain the independence of the White House about criminal problems.