"Trust That Had Been Earned Over Generations Has Been Lost in Weeks"

That's from Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui (D.D.C.) last week in In re: Search of One Device and Two Individuals. The context is the government's request to seal a court order—I'll blog more about that later today—and the government's argument, in the process, "that courts must be highly deferential to the government's determination that unsealing would impede its investigation." But I take it that the judge's sentiment would carry over into other decisions as well, especially if other judges take a similar view:

Blind deference to the government? That is no longer a thing. Trust that had been earned over generations has been lost in weeks. Numerous career prosecutors have had to resign instead of taking actions that they believe violated their oath of office, or worse, were fired for uphol