Harry Litman, Talking Feds Substack – “A district judge pronounces last rites on the once honorable Department. New Jersey District Court Judge Zahid Quraishi said something from the bench on Monday that DOJ alumni have been warning about for a year. Pushed to the breaking point by DOJ’s repeated flouting of orders from the entire district court, Quraishi blasted the entire office: “Generations of assistant U.S. attorneys have built the goodwill of that office for your generation to destroy it in a year.” Quraishi spoke with the controlled fury of someone who had served in that office himself and understood the value of what the Bondi DOJ has gutted. It was only the tagline of a scorching broadside. All in all, it was the sternest and most incensed takedown of the DOJ as an institution that I have ever heard…”