One (Losing) Battle After Another
The Counsel
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.7 • 861 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:36.6 | Hey everyone, Ellie here, wishing you a happy Friday. |
| 0:40.1 | Well, before we get to this week's piece, I noticed an item that sort of shot through the news |
| 0:45.3 | very quickly. |
| 0:46.3 | I was asked one question about it on CNN by Jake Tapper, which I was grateful for. |
| 0:51.1 | And here's the story. |
| 0:53.2 | So the Justice Department has long had, apparently, a requirement that in order |
| 0:58.6 | to get hired as a federal prosecutor, you have to have at least one year of legal practice, |
| 1:04.9 | of legal experience. As you can probably tell, I had no idea that was even a regulation. I mean, it seems so minimal |
| 1:13.0 | why would you even have it. It's like saying, well, in order to be a brain surgeon, |
| 1:17.8 | you have to have one year of being a doctor first. Of course, obviously, you need a lot more than |
| 1:22.6 | that. I wasn't aware that this was a regulation, but it's a reasonable one. I mean, I think it maybe |
| 1:29.2 | should even be higher. The news, though, is DOJ has now gotten rid of that, meaning they can hire |
| 1:35.2 | people with less than one year of legal experience as AUSAs, as federal prosecutors. They can |
| 1:41.8 | hire people with no legal experience. I guess presumably you still |
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