These fired DOJ lawyers are finding new ways to make a difference

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Prosecutors Isia Jasiewicz, Jennifer Blackwell, Sara Levine and Carolyn Jackson left the U.S. Attorney’s office in Washington this year. But the new leaders in the Trump Justice Department rejected that approach and terminated them all. The probationary lawyers who exited DOJ entered a job market that may have been uniquely terrible. She said watching the fired Jan. 6 prosecutors leave the office was among the hardest days of her career. Blackwell said she no longer recognized the Justice Department and reluctantly concluded she had to leave.