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Ma’atstep 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚧️🏴‍☠️ @maatstep.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

@booker.senate.gov @corybooker.com @durbin.senate.gov @amyklobuchar.com Come get your man; he’s on the Internet bragging about how he’s trying to get y’all to make him a circuit court judge, how he gladhanded to the top, and all kinds of other crap unbefitting a future member of the judiciary.

A screenshot of a Reddit post. A user named GoWestYeoman says “This is Reddit hilarity. De-Stalinization.
DOJ honors program folks aren't making it to the OSG. But they will be future AUSAs and such and they surely will make it just fine.
Again, most entered before, many will enter after, it's still what it is. I think you really have a different view of congressional hearings and appointments as well as how AUSA and US attorney careers go.
I meet with dozens of senators a year to keep connections warm and get a feel for things. How many do you get dinner with and specifically discuss federal appointment philosophy and who they have on their list of people to recommend when asked?
You're talking out of partisan wishing that these evil Trump lawyers are forever spurned from good jobs in
DOJ leadership.
The reality is that's not how it works and any look at the careers of people from Trump's first term is a pretty good predictor of it.”

A screenshot of a Reddit post. A user named GoWestYeoman says “You're talking out of partisan wishing that these evil Trump lawyers are forever spurned from good jobs in
DOJ leadership.
The reality is that's not how it works and any look at the careers of people from Trump's first term is a pretty good predictor of it.
We don't talk of traitors and black marks and blah blah. It's politics. It's career planning. I'm not worried what you think of my career. I'm worried about who is going to give a future president or DOJ appointee my name and what the judiciary committee is going to think and say.
And I know Amy and Dick and Cory and Mike and Josh and John and Katie pretty damn personally at this point.
This weird dream you have where no one who willingly took a federal job in this administration will be hirable later is comical and yet depressingly partisan.”

A screenshot of a post in the subreddit r/Lawyertalk marked “Memes, Jokes, and Shitposts”, removed by Reddit’s filters but with the title “You are not competing on merits, you are competing with the partner’s mistress.” A user named GoWestYeoman says “Yeah, it happens. Just as it happens in the DOJ or in public service in general.
There's also diversity hires and promotions.
Both are dwarfed by the number of men (and mostly white) who got promoted for playing golf with the partners or cozying up to the right person at the right time in their career. That's me, I did that. Multiple times.”

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