Inside a sunny conference room across the river from Washington, D.C., Monika Isia Jasiewicz described her unlikely path this year.

It started when she received an invitation to the inauguration from her Yale Law School classmate JD Vance.

Less than two weeks later, she and more than a dozen other government lawyers who prosecuted people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, received another message from the new Trump administration. They were fired — by email.

"It feels surreal to see my peers be in the leadership of this country and to experience you know, us as civil servants, being cast aside," Jasiewicz said.

She and three more women who left the U.S. Attorney's Office in Washington this year have found their way back to public service — working together, again, as prosecu

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