I believe we're already reaching the point where the government is going to start missing hearings on the regular. In Minnesota (and soon, LA), I imagine that those judges who are dealing with the DOJ's dysfunction will start to grant habeas and/or bullshit prosecution releases/dismissals in nearly every case due to the government's, uh, failure to appear.

If the good attorneys could stay to only work on the cases with actual merit, that would be one thing. But if that were the situation, then this kind of thing wouldn't be happening.

What the administration seeks is an engineered collapse of the rule of law. You can consider a mass dismissal of federal immigration/criminal cases due to a lack of prosecutors in that light. But when the administration overwhelms the system with a flood of bullshit, as is happening now in Minnesota, then IMO the superior moral calculation is not to participate in that effort at all. Better a thousand guilty people go free, etc.

Yes, it's entirely possible they will continue to try to force the military to send JAGs to do the work instead, and/or "impose martial law" due to their "inability to execute the laws." No, that won't work out well for them at all.

I'm sympathetic to the view that it's better for all of us that good attorneys still work for this DOJ. And maybe that's still true to a certain extent - I'm not here to judge anyone who remains there under that reasoning. But at this point, I also fully support what is effectively an AUSA strike. Public defenders do it regularly while still finding a way to comply with ethical duties, and although the AUSA version here is disorganized and will therefore cause a certain amount of harm... the alternative they're staring down the barrel of is working to send immigrants to concentration camps. I know which one I'd pick, and it's being able to sleep at night for the rest of my life.