How deportation broke the courts

驱逐出境如何摧毁了法庭

Today, Explained

2026-02-13

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The number of immigration cases has risen sharply since President Donald Trump took office, and DOJ lawyers are crashing out. This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Dustin DeSoto and Andrea Lopez-Cruzado, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Federal agents arresting a man in Minneapolis. Photo by Mostafa Bassim/Anadolu via Getty Images. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at ⁠vox.com/today-explained-podcast.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • Lawyers for the Department of Justice are crashing out.

  • The Dow, the Dow right now is over.

  • The Dow is over $50,000.

  • I don't know why you're laughing.

  • You're a great doctor.

  • Not Pam Bondi.

  • That's a separate issue.

  • No,

  • the lawyers tasked with prosecuting immigration cases for the Trump administration are quitting saying they have too much work.

  • One DOJ lawyer in Minnesota got a lot of attention last week when she told a judge,

  • quote, this job sucks.

  • A former DOJ chief of staff tweeted in desperation.

  • If you're interested in being an assisted US attorney,

  • To which someone replied, your DMs aren't open.

  • When President Trump sent ICE into Minneapolis to run amok,

  • his administration was bound to get sued.

  • A bunch.

  • The problem is, he's running out of lawyers.

  • That's coming up on Today Explained.

  • The working forest industry is committed to planting more trees than they harvest.