Trump Justice Department recruits transphobes with law degrees using $25k bonus

[Jessica_Rose ✅]

Trump Justice Department recruits transphobes with law degrees using $25,000 bonuses

https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/doj-transgender-case-bonuses 🔗

Jacob Ogles (6 May 2026)

Transphobes with law degrees could soon land $25,000 bonuses with the Justice Department.

New job listings for attorneys in the Civil Division are advertising those bonuses for attorneys interested in investigating youth transgender treatments, according to a new report in Bloomberg Law. The bonuses are also being offered to those interested in enforcing President Donald Trump's immigration policies.

Additionally, the federal agency has begun offering retention incentives in the Civil Division of $60 to $220 each pay period for attorneys who stay on and pursue enforcement of Trump's agenda in court.

The bonuses come as the Justice Department suffers a significant shortage of attorneys. Under now-fired Attorney General Pam Bondi, the number of attorneys working in the Justice Department dwindled from about 10,000 under the prior administration to 5,500 last November, according to the American Bar Association.

As for the advertised work specialties, the Justice Department, both under Bondi and now under Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, has aggressively pursued information about gender-affirming care provided to minors across the country.

[Lori Dee ✅]

That's how this Administration works. First, fire everyone you don't like. Then offer early retirement for those who don't like you. Then, after cutting to the bone, you hire (with bonuses) loyalists to your cause.

More than 200 people have been fired at the Department of Justice this year.(2025) Sometimes, for reasons they don't even know. That's transforming the workforce at the DOJ.

Many others have been forced out of their jobs for reasons that seem political. Those departures are transforming the workforce.

"We now have a president and people who work for him who are directing federal employees to do what the president wants even if that is in conflict with the law or in conflict with our Constitution."

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/31/nx-s1-5484932/layoffs-at-the-department-of-justice-are-transforming-its-workforce 🔗
NPR - Carrie Johnson
July 31, 20254:17 AM ET