Reason's C.J. Ciaramella wrote last week that the second Trump administration "has lost the confidence of courts," as federal judges increasingly decline to grant U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors the "presumption of regularity" in court proceedings.
While this was less a policy choice than simply the result of President Donald Trump filling the DOJ with underqualified lackeys, Ciaramella noted, "it certainly might not be a bad thing if judges were more skeptical of the government."
