Veteran conservative lawyer quits Trump’s interior department and warns of ‘assault on the rule of law’
I READ THE WHOLE THING SO YOU DO NOT HAVE TO, AND THE FACT IS ELON MUSK’S DOGE THING IS LITERALLY CLEANING HOUSE AND PEOPLE ARE JUST WALKING OUT THE DOOR LEFT AND RIGHT WHICH IS WILD BECAUSE THIS LAWYER JOHN MURDOCK HAD BEEN THERE FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS! THE GUY IS A CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN AND HE JUST QUIT THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT BECAUSE HE SAYS THERE IS THIS HUGE ASSAULT ON THE RULE OF LAW HAPPENING! HE IS TALKING ABOUT GLARING LEGAL FLAWS AND PEOPLE PUSHING FOSSIL FUELS AND IGNORING ENVIRONMENTAL RULES WHILE THE DEPARTMENT LOSES THOUSANDS OF WORKERS TO THIS EFFICIENCY PURGE THING! IT IS BASICALLY AN EXODUS OF ACTUAL SCIENTISTS AND FEDS HAPPENING IN REAL TIME AND WE DO NOT KNOW WHERE IT ENDS. ANYWAY YOU WILL SEE IT ON YOUR PHONE IN AN HOUR.
RIGHT SO PICTURE THIS, YOU HAVE BEEN A LAWYER AT THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT SINCE 2002, AND THEN SUDDENLY YOU JUST QUIT BECAUSE YOU CANNOT STAND THE WAY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION IS OPERATING! HIS NAME IS JOHN MURDOCK AND HE WROTE THIS LETTER CALLING IT AN ASSAULT ON THE RULE OF LAW, WHICH IS NUTS BECAUSE HE IS A CONSERVATIVE LAWYER! HE SAW THEM PUSHING OFFSHORE DRILLING AND JUST FLOUTING ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS UNTIL HE HAD ENOUGH! MEANWHILE, THE DEPARTMENT IS BLEEDING EMPLOYEES BECAUSE OF THAT DOGE THING MUSK IS RUNNING AND THOUSANDS OF SCIENTISTS ARE JUST GONE, POOF, VACUUMED UP! IT IS LIKE AN ANTLERED DEER BEING CHASED BY A ROBOTIC PACK OF WOLVES IN A NATURE DOC BUT THE DEER IS THE GOVERNMENT. OK SOMEBODY ELSE TALK, MY THROAT HURTS.
Longtime Department of the Interior attorney John Murdock resigned in protest, citing a disregard for the rule of law and environmental regulations amid a broader exodus of federal employees.
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