69 of the roughly 110 lawyers in the #FederalPrograms Branch have voluntarily left the unit since #Trump's election in November or have announced plans to leave, according to the list compiled by former #DOJ lawyers & reviewed by Reuters.

The tally has not been previously reported. Using court records & LinkedIn accounts, Reuters was able to verify the departure of all but 4 names on the list.

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Reuters spoke to 4 former #lawyers in the unit & 3 other people familiar with the departures who said some staffers had grown demoralized & exhausted defending an onslaught of lawsuits against the #Trump admin.

"Many of these people came to work at #FederalPrograms to defend aspects of our constitutional system," said one lawyer who left the unit during Trump's 2nd term. "How could they participate in the project of tearing it down?"

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