Like many other DOJ attorneys, she made the hard decision to leave when it became clear this administration did not consider civil rights work a priority.

So the folks in the department were given two decision points.

First, there was what folks called the fork, which was this initial email we got from the new administration offering everybody a sort of incentive to leave their job.

And at that point, I think no one in the Civil Rights Division took the exit.

Maybe one person did.

And then the new administration made a second pass at trying to encourage as many people as possible to leave, and they provided a second.

opportunity for folks to exit with something that approached a severance package.

Department lawyers keep overreaching in their efforts to indict people who oppose this