{"id":1015,"date":"2024-11-11T16:03:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T16:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/trump-transition-figure-warns-doj-lawyers-get-on-board-or-get-out\/"},"modified":"2024-11-11T16:03:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T16:03:01","slug":"trump-transition-figure-warns-doj-lawyers-get-on-board-or-get-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-transition-figure-warns-doj-lawyers-get-on-board-or-get-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump transition figure warns DOJ lawyers: Get on board or get out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A conservative lawyer working on Donald Trump\u2019s transition, Mark Paoletta, offered a stark warning to career Justice Department lawyers Monday that those who refuse to advance Trump\u2019s agenda should resign or face the possibility of being fired.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce the decision is made to move forward, career employees are required to implement the President\u2019s plan,\u201d Paoletta wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkPaoletta\/status\/1855977334106390915\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>a post on X<\/u><\/a> responding to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/10\/trump-return-justice-department-00188623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>a Blue Light News story detailing widespread fear among DOJ lawyers<\/u><\/a> about being asked to advance or defend policies they consider unethical or illegal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf these career DOJ employees won\u2019t implement President Trump\u2019s program in good faith, they should leave,\u201d Paoletta said. \u201cThose employees who engage in so-called \u2018resistance\u2019 against the duly-elected President\u2019s lawful agenda would be subverting American democracy\u2026.Those that take such actions would be subject to disciplinary measures, including termination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paoletta recited a laundry list of Trump goals, including mass deportations, ending birthright citizenship, issuing pardons and commutations to Jan. 6 defendants, reversing \u201clawfare and persecution of political opponents,\u201d and \u201cholding accountable those who weaponized their government authority to abuse Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paoletta, a former counsel to Vice President Mike Pence and to the Office of Management and Budget during the first Trump administration, is playing a role in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/10\/30\/2024-elections-live-coverage-updates-analysis\/making-trumps-doj-00186401\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>drafting potential changes in Justice Department policy<\/u><\/a> to be put into effect after Trump is sworn in as president in January.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conservative lawyer working on Donald Trump\u2019s transition, Mark Paoletta, offered a stark warning to career Justice Department lawyers Monday that those who refuse to advance Trump\u2019s agenda should resign or face the possibility of being fired. \u201cOnce the decision is made to move forward, career employees are required to implement the President\u2019s plan,\u201d Paoletta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}