Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned on Tuesday over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent and the department’s reluctance to investigate the shooter, according to people with knowledge of their decision.
Joseph H. Thompson, who was second in command at the U.S. attorney’s office and oversaw a sprawling fraud investigation that has roiled Minnesota’s political landscape, was among those who quit on Tuesday, according to three people with knowledge of the decision.
Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior Justice Department officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent on Wednesday.
Kinda depends.
If your job is heavily based on results or hitting quotas, quitting might not be the best choice in most cases, since if you weren’t meeting the requirements set, you’d be fired anyways. (e.g. if their metric is "10 protesters jailed a week, you can’t really be “gumming up the works” by only jailing 10 protesters instead of the 20 your coworker is doing. If they needed 10 more from you, they’d up the requirements or hire/transfer another person)
But if your job is more abstract, something specialized that’s hard to find replacements for, etc, then it can be worth it. (e.g. you’re the only person who knows how this legacy system with no documentation functions, if you quit and they need tech support, they’re fucked. Or another example, if your job relies on your team making new guidelines for how to best identify protesters, but you effectively sabotage every regular meeting with long speeches, bringing up old issues and re-opening them for discussion, asking how effective new decisions really are to draw them out, etc)
In this case, federal prosecutors are:
So resigning was probably a good choice compared to just going “it’s taking a while, sorry” and then them looking at the work and seeing it’s just way slower than before on purpose in tangible ways, then having them come after you for “sabotage” or whatever they try to brand it as.
You’re assuming the current administration will hire or promote someone competent as the replacement. Slow walking cases and tying them up in red tape might have accomplished more than simply handing them to someone who doesn’t care about following the law.
At some point even Fox News will run out of people.
There will be stupid greedy fucks willing to sell their souls so no Faux News will never run out of willing employees.
Not as long as there is hair bleach and stupid people.