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法庭文件显示，前联邦律师如今正参与挑战跨性别医疗保健与拨款政策的诉讼
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发布于2026年7月7日 美国东部时间早上6:00
律师称特朗普有“责任”解雇司法部政治任命官员
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福克斯新闻数字频道的调查发现，随着蓝色州加紧针对总统第二任期议程的法律斗争，大批联邦律师正离开特朗普政府，转而加入民主党州总检察长办公室。
《纽约时报》分析的就业数据显示，自2025年以来，已有超过1万名联邦律师——约占联邦政府全体律师的五分之一——离职。福克斯新闻数字频道的调查确认，其中已有超过100人随后开始为民主党州总检察长办公室工作，法庭文件显示，这些律师中的一部分如今正参与挑战特朗普政府的诉讼。
福克斯新闻数字频道通过查阅公开的领英个人资料、州政府职员名录、公职人员声明以及法庭文件，识别出2025年1月后离开联邦公职、之后出现在民主党州总检察长办公室或相关诉讼记录中的律师。本次调查并未明确任何一名律师离职或加入州政府办公室的具体原因。
考虑到联邦工作人员并非人人都开通了公开的领英账号，第二任特朗普政府时期跳槽到民主党州总检察长办公室的联邦律师实际人数可能更高。
民主党总检察长警告联邦员工警惕特朗普的“买断计划”：旨在瓦解我们的联邦 workforce
唐纳德·特朗普总统2025年6月27日在华盛顿白宫布雷迪新闻发布厅的新闻发布会上，与副司法部长托德·布兰奇一同发言。最高法院限制单一联邦法官否决行政行动的权力后，特朗普称这是“巨大胜利”。(安德鲁·卡巴列罗-雷诺兹/法新社通过盖蒂图片社拍摄)
“俄勒冈州司法部是国内一些最优秀公职人员的归宿，其中包括来自美国司法部的资深律师，他们选择将自己的技能用于为俄勒冈州民众服务，”民主党籍俄勒冈州总检察长丹·雷菲尔德告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“他们已经在发挥作用——在消费者保护、联邦越权案件、刑事司法、环境保护，以及我们的国民警卫队相关诉讼等领域。”
正如雷菲尔德所暗示的，2025年1月后离开联邦公职的许多律师，此后直接参与了旨在对抗特朗普政府的诉讼。福克斯新闻数字频道查阅的法庭文件发现，大量曾在特朗普政府时期担任律师的人士，如今出现在针对该政府的法律诉讼名单中。
其中包括马萨诸塞州提起的诉讼，反对特朗普政府限制未成年人跨性别医疗保健的举措；加利福尼亚州提起的诉讼，挑战该政府终止研究拨款的行为；民主党州总检察长在一起试图阻止特朗普解雇联邦贸易委员会委员的案件中提交的法庭之友意见书，以及多起试图限制总统部署国民警卫队的案件，等等。
即便姓名未直接出现在文件中的律师，也能帮助民主党州总检察长挑战特朗普议程中的重大举措，并捍卫与总统利益相悖的州级政策。
这类诉讼往往有多支律师团队代表多个不同的民主党州。民主党州总检察长公开披露，蓝州之间的密切合作是他们对抗特朗普政府战略的关键组成部分。
俄勒冈州总检察长丹·雷菲尔德在讲台上发言。(埃里克·李通过盖蒂图片社拍摄)
不再弹劾：民主党此番正通过第二条修正案挑战阻挠特朗普
民主党州总检察长今年3月接受《卫报》采访时透露，他们自2024年起定期会面，讨论如何通过联合诉讼和公众参与，最有效地对抗特朗普政府。据报道，民主党州总检察长办公室的工作人员每日都会沟通，商讨如何让联邦政府承担责任，包括讨论哪个州应该牵头某起案件。
“我非常自豪能加入这个总检察长——当然是民主党总检察长——联盟，他们每天都在为保护我们的权利，最重要的是为保护法治而工作，”马萨诸塞州总检察长安德里亚·乔伊·坎贝尔在2025年6月的新闻发布会上表示。“我们绝不能松懈。”
与此同时，加利福尼亚州总检察长称跨州协作“至关重要”。
在离职加入民主党州总检察长办公室的人员中，从事民权、移民、环境法、公共腐败和反垄断领域工作的律师比例偏高。
政府雇员通常分为两类：旨在代表政府开展无党派工作的职业公务员，以及被授予更大空间开展明确政治项目的政治任命官员。福克斯新闻数字频道调查确认的律师，在加入民主党领导的州办公室之前，绝大多数都担任过职业联邦职务，而非政治职务。
许多离职的联邦律师带走了长达数十年的工作经验，这意味着法律人才从联邦政府大规模转移到民主党州政府。
2026年2月19日，华盛顿特区司法部大楼外悬挂的唐纳德·特朗普总统横幅，上面写着“让美国再次安全”。(希瑟·迪尔通过盖蒂图片社拍摄)
高层离职：创造历史的总检察长解雇与强制离职
其中一名律师在司法部工作了约20年，从法律实习生做起，最终升至助理总法律顾问，领导多支律师团队。如今，她在2025年8月离开司法部后，在科罗拉多州担任高级助理总检察长，帮助该州就联邦拨款纠纷与特朗普政府展开对抗。
她绝非第二任特朗普政府时期离职的高级官员中的孤例。
其他跳槽者包括但不限于：卫生与公众服务部助理首席法律顾问、国土安全部透明度办公室主任、多名美国检察官办公室部门主管，以及另一名在司法部工作近20年、如今领导马里兰州总检察长办公室追究特朗普政府责任工作的资深律师。
“政治起诉”：共和党总检察长要求终止针对当选总统特朗普的“诉讼骚扰”
2026年2月20日，华盛顿特区美国司法部总部外墙上悬挂的印有唐纳德·特朗普总统形象的横幅。(德鲁·安杰洛/法新社通过盖蒂图片社拍摄)
“经验丰富的联邦检察官和美国司法部的律师选择加入州政府，选择俄勒冈州，选择为这里的民众而战，”雷菲尔德补充道。“我们很幸运能有他们加入俄勒冈州司法部这支已经极具才华且久经考验的团队。”
与此同时，新泽西州总检察长办公室的一名发言人告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，该办公室最近通过招聘联邦律师，为领导层增添了多名成员，包括新的保险欺诈部门负责人。
这一情况与特朗普第一任期形成显著差异，当时许多如今已经离职的律师当时仍在联邦政府任职，尽管个人离职的原因各不相同，且并非都公开透明。
民主党总检察长就特朗普政府教育部裁员提起诉讼
2025年8月11日，唐纳德·特朗普总统与华盛顿特区联邦检察官让娜·费里斯·皮尔罗在白宫新闻发布厅召开新闻发布会，讨论部署联邦执法人员支援当地警方。(乔纳森·恩斯特/路透社)
政治评论家里查德·哈纳尼亚告诉福克斯新闻数字频道：“在特朗普时代，保守派运动吸引合格精英的能力大幅下降。教育极化是长期现象，但特朗普的民粹主义风格和政策纲领加剧了这一趋势，考虑到他对受教育程度较低群体的不成比例吸引力。这一点很重要，因为无论哪个政府试图实现目标，智力和经验都至关重要。”
“仅仅拥有认同你理念的人是不够的，”他补充道。
彭博法律5月的报道称，联邦律师的大规模流失严重损害了特朗普政府为其移民政策辩护的能力，自2025年1月以来，移民诉讼办公室约三分之一的律师——包括许多拥有关键专业知识的高级官员——已经离职。
司法部列举特朗普任内10项“成就”，称拜登时代后机构已恢复元气
2025年5月28日，唐纳德·特朗普总统在白宫椭圆形办公室为华盛顿特区 interim联邦检察官让娜·皮尔罗举行宣誓就职仪式上发言。(安德鲁·哈恩/盖蒂图片社)
但特朗普政府否认其效率因律师大规模离职受到冲击。
“即便检察官人数比上一届政府少一千人，本司法部起诉的罪犯人数也比上一届政府同期多出近5万人，”司法部一名女发言人告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“我国的谋杀率处于125年来的最低水平，我们逮捕了超过90名主要贩毒集团头目，抓获了联邦调查局十大通缉犯中的8人，从街头收缴了数百万剂致命 fentanyl——所有这些成就之外，我们还在最高法院紧急诉讼 docket 中取得了创纪录的24场胜利。”
“这些成就堪称惊人，而且都是在媒体吹捧的所谓‘反特朗普检察官离职’的情况下取得的，”她补充道。
达菲刚在特朗普政府获得新职位——他不是唯一身兼数职的人
2025年9月8日，唐纳德·特朗普总统在华盛顿圣经博物馆举行的宗教自由委员会听证会上发言。(亚历克斯·布兰登/美联社)
尽管自2025年1月以来已有超过1万名联邦律师离开政府，但各机构在此期间也雇佣了约3200名律师，特朗普政府也多次公开推动鼓励或招募意识形态一致的律师申请职位。
自特朗普再次就职以来离开联邦服务的律师中，绝大多数来自司法部、教育部和环境保护署等机构。加利福尼亚州、马里兰州、纽约州和科罗拉多州是他们离职后最常见的目的地。
“那些被司法部解雇的人是有原因的。那些辞职或选择‘分岔路口’选项的人，可能更认同拜登总统的优先事项，自然会选择离开，这在政权过渡期间很常见，”司法部女发言人继续说道。“本届政府给了职业员工‘分岔路口’的选择，目的是有意缩减政府规模，消除那些未能有效助力打击犯罪核心任务的不必要层级人员。”
白宫将福克斯新闻数字频道引荐至总统唐纳德·特朗普在Truth Social上发布的一篇帖子，他在帖子中称，许多离开他政府的律师是“激进左翼深层国家疯子，他们正在摧毁我们的国家，并且将政府武器化”。
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“这使得司法部能够更高效地运转，并招聘到全心全意认同我们保护美国民众安全使命的优秀律师，”女发言人说道。
福克斯新闻数字频道已联系所有民主党州总检察长办公室征求评论。
Legal war on Trump’s agenda gains firepower as federal lawyers defect to Democrats
2026-07-07T06:00:41-04:00 / Fox News
Court filings show ex-federal lawyers now working on cases challenging transgender healthcare and grant policies
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Published July 7, 2026 6:00am EDT
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Federal lawyers are leaving the Trump administration and landing in Democratic state attorneys general’s offices in large numbers as blue states ramp up their legal fight against the president’s second-term agenda, a Fox News Digital review found.
Employment data analyzed by the New York Times indicates that more than 10,000 federal attorneys — approximately one-fifth of all lawyers employed by the federal government — have left their posts since 2025 began. Of these, a Fox News Digital review identified well over 100 who have since begun working for Democratic attorneys general’s offices, with legal filings showing that some of those lawyers are now involved in cases challenging the Trump administration.
Fox News Digital reviewed public LinkedIn profiles, state staff directories, statements from public officials and court filings to identify attorneys who left federal service after January 2025 and later appeared in Democratic attorneys general’s offices or relevant litigation records. The review does not establish why any individual attorney left federal service or joined a state office.
The true number of federal attorneys who have moved to Democratic attorneys general offices under the second Trump administration is likely higher, given that public LinkedIn accounts are not ubiquitous among federal workers.
DEM AGS WARN FEDERAL WORKERS ABOUT TRUMP BUYOUT OFFER: ‘AIMED AT DISMANTLING OUR FEDERAL WORKFORCE’
President Donald Trump speaks alongside Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche during a news conference in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 27, 2025. Trump called it a “GIANT WIN” after the Supreme Court limited the power of lone federal judges to block executive actions.(ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
“Oregon DOJ is a destination for some of the most talented public servants in the country, including experienced lawyers from the U.S. Department of Justice who are choosing to bring their skills to serve Oregonians at the state level,” Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield, a Democrat, told Fox News Digital. “They’re already making a difference — on consumer protection, federal overreach cases, criminal justice, environmental protection and on litigation like our National Guard case.”
As Rayfield alluded to, many of the attorneys who left federal service after January 2025 have since worked directly on cases aimed at combating the Trump administration. Court filings reviewed by Fox News Digital uncovered scores of individuals who previously worked as lawyers under the Trump administration whose names now appear on legal actions taken against it.
These include a lawsuit filed by Massachusetts opposing the Trump administration’s efforts to restrict transgender healthcare for minors, a suit filed by California challenging its termination of research grants, an amicus brief filed by Democratic attorneys general in a case seeking to stop Trump from firing FTC commissioners, and multiple cases seeking to rein in the president’s National Guard deployments, among others.
Even those whose names don’t directly appear on filings can help Democratic attorneys general challenge major pieces of Trump’s agenda and defend state-level policies contrary to the president’s interests.
Many of these lawsuits featured multiple teams of lawyers representing a host of different Democratic states. Democratic attorneys general have publicly disclosed that close cooperation between fellow blue states is a key part of their strategy to resist the Trump administration.
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield speaks at a podium.(Eric Lee/Getty Images)
INSTEAD OF IMPEACHMENT, DEMS ARE USING ARTICLE II CHALLENGES TO IMPEDE TRUMP THIS TIME
Speaking to The Guardian in March, Democratic attorneys general disclosed that they have been meeting regularly since 2024 to discuss how they can best resist the Trump administration through joint lawsuits and public engagement. Staff from Democratic attorneys general’s offices reportedly communicate daily regarding how they can hold the federal government to account, discussing items such as which state should lead a given case.
“I’m really proud to be part of this attorney general — and, of course, Democratic attorney general — coalition that is doing the work every single day to protect our rights, and most importantly, the rule of law,” Massachusetts state Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell said at a press conference in June 2025. “We can’t take our sight off of that.”
California’s attorney general, meanwhile, called the cross-state collaboration “critical.”
Federal lawyers working in the areas of civil rights, immigration, environmental law, public corruption and antitrust were overrepresented among those who left to work for Democratic attorneys general.
Government employees generally fall into two camps: career civil servants who are intended to carry out nonpartisan work on behalf of the government and political appointees who are granted greater leeway to work on explicitly political projects. The attorneys identified in Fox News Digital’s review overwhelmingly appear to have held career, rather than political, federal roles before joining Democratic-led state offices.
Many of the lawyers leaving federal service are taking one, or even two, decades of service with them, constituting a significant transfer of legal talent from the national government to Democratic states.
A banner of President Donald Trump hangs on the Department of Justice building in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 19, 2026. The banner reads “Make America Safe Again.”(Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
TOP COPS OUT: THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FIRINGS AND FORCED EXITS THAT MADE HISTORY
One such lawyer worked in the Justice Department for roughly 20 years, beginning as a legal intern and ultimately rising to the position of assistant general counsel, leading multiple teams of attorneys. Now, after leaving the DOJ in August 2025, the lawyer works as a senior assistant attorney general in Colorado, helping the state fight the Trump administration in disputes over federal grants.
They were far from the only high-profile departure under the second Trump administration.
Others who jumped ship included, but were not limited to, the assistant chief counsel at the Department of Health and Human Services, the director of transparency at the Department of Homeland Security, multiple U.S. attorneys’ office division chiefs and another near-20-year veteran of the DOJ who now leads the Maryland attorney general’s efforts to hold the Trump administration accountable.
‘POLITICAL PROSECUTIONS’: REPUBLICAN AGS DEMAND END TO ‘LAWFARE’ PROSECUTIONS OF PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP’
A banner featuring an image of President Donald Trump is displayed on the facade of the U.S. Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 20, 2026.(Drew Angerer/AFP/Getty Images)
“Experienced federal prosecutors and lawyers from the U.S. Department of Justice are choosing state service, choosing Oregon, and choosing to fight for the people here,” Rayfield added. “We’re fortunate to have them joining the already incredibly talented, proven team here at the Oregon Department of Justice.”
A spokeswoman for New Jersey’s attorney general, meanwhile, told Fox News Digital that it recently added multiple members to its leadership team, including its new insurance fraud head, by recruiting federal lawyers.
The timing marks a notable change from the first Trump administration, when some of the same attorneys who have since left then remained in federal service, though the reasons for individual departures vary and are not always publicly known.
DEM AGS SUE OVER TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION LAYOFFS
President Donald Trump and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Ferris Pirro speak during a press conference about deploying federal law enforcement agents in Washington to support local police in the White House Press Briefing Room in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 11, 2025.(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
“In the Trump era, the conservative movement has become much less able to attract competent elites. Education polarization is a long-term phenomenon, but Trump’s populist style and policy platform has supercharged it, given his disproportionate appeal to the less educated,” political commentator Richard Hanania told Fox News Digital. “This matters, because intelligence and experience are important for any administration trying to achieve its goals.”
“Simply having people who agree with you isn’t enough,” he added.
Bloomberg Law reported in May that the exodus of federal attorneys was seriously harming the Trump administration’s ability to defend its immigration policies, with roughly a third of those in the Office of Immigration Litigation — including many in senior roles with critical expertise — having left since January 2025.
DOJ OUTLINES 10 ‘WINS’ UNDER TRUMP, SAYS AGENCY RESTORED AFTER BIDEN ERA
President Donald Trump speaks during the swearing-in ceremony for interim U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro in the Oval Office of the White House on May 28, 2025, in Washington, D.C.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
The Trump administration, however, denies that its efficiency has been rocked by the mass exit of lawyers.
“Even with a thousand fewer prosecutors than the previous administration, this Department has indicted nearly 50,000 more criminals than the previous administration had in the same timeframe,” a DOJ spokeswoman told Fox News Digital. “Our country has the lowest murder rate in 125 years, we’ve arrested more than 90 key cartel leaders, captured eight on the FBI’s Top 10 most wanted list, and removed millions of deadly doses of fentanyl from our streets — all on top of achieving a record 24 victories on the Supreme Court’s emergency docket.”
“These achievements are nothing short of astonishing, and they have all been accomplished even with the supposed ‘exodus’ of anti-Trump prosecutors the media idolize,” she added.
DUFFY JUST GOT AN ADDITIONAL JOB IN TRUMP’S ADMINISTRATION — AND HE’S NOT THE ONLY ONE WEARING MULTIPLE HATS
President Donald Trump speaks at a hearing of the Religious Liberty Commission at the Museum of the Bible in Washington on Sept. 8, 2025.(Alex Brandon/AP)
While more than 10,000 federal attorneys have left government since January 2025, agencies have also hired roughly 3,200 attorneys during that period and the Trump administration has made multiple public pushes to encourage or recruit ideologically aligned lawyers to apply for roles.
The bulk of the lawyers who have left federal service since Trump took office for a second time were at agencies such as the DOJ, the Department of Education and the Environmental Protection Agency. California, Maryland, New York and Colorado were some of their most common destinations after leaving the Trump administration.
“Those who were fired from the Department were fired for a reason. Those who resigned or took the fork in the road option likely aligned more with the priorities of President Biden and would naturally leave, which is common during transitions,” the DOJ spokeswoman continued. “The Administration gave career employees the fork in the road option to intentionally reduce the size of the government and eliminate unnecessary layers of staff who don’t effectively contribute to the mission of aggressively tackling crime.”
The White House referred Fox News Digital to a Truth Social post written by President Donald Trump where he claims that many of the lawyers who have departed from his administration were “Radical Left Deep State Lunatics, who are destroying our Country, and Weaponizing Government.”
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“This has allowed DOJ to run more efficiently and hire talented attorneys who wholeheartedly believe in our mission to keep the American people safe,” the spokeswoman said.
Fox News Digital reached out to every Democratic state attorney general’s office for comment.
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