Trump administration no longer has enough lawyers left to do its dirty work.

Whoever hasn’t been purged for not being loyal enough or exited ahead of the purges has been asked to clean up a mess with extremely limited amounts of resources and manpower.

To make things worse, Trump’s handpicked prosecutors keep being kicked out of court because Trump bypassed the appointment process essential to them remaining employed.

Then there’s the self-inflicted reputational damage Trump’s DOJ has done.
The government, for the most part, is no longer granted the presumption of good faith.

Courts across the land are not only aware this government isn’t acting in good faith, but they’rerefusing to pretend it is,
no matter how much copy-pasted boilerplate appears in DOJ filings.

Hundreds of adverse rulings have already been handed down.
Hundreds more are on the horizon,
especially now that the DOJ has admitted pretty much every arrest that took place in an immigration court was illegal.

It all adds up to the long tail of “flooding the zone.”
If you can’t bail water fast enough, you’re going to drown.
Here’s how this is working out for the DOJ now
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/20/ice-detention-cases-doj-judges-00837850