The quandary faced by government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice
Should I Stay or Should I Go? The quandary faced by government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice. By Eyal Press September 28, 2026 Alyssa Lareau quit the Civil Rights Division last year. She recalls asking herself, “Am I enabling a fascist regime?” Illustration by Tyler Comrie On March 7, 2025, Celia Cohen, a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, was finishing up a meeting at 26 Federal Plaza, in lower Manhattan, when she learned that a federal marshal had arrived on the premises and wanted to see her. She was soon led to a conference room where the marshal served her with a letter from Todd Blanche, then the Deputy Attorney General, informing her that she and Andrew Rohrbach, another prosecutor at the S.D.N.Y., were being investigated and placed on administrative leave. After Cohen collected her personal belongings, the marshal escorted her out of the building. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/1...
