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Under Donald Trump, the Department of Justice increasingly seems to be acting as his personal law firm—his deputized goon squad, seeking vengeance on everyone who ever crossed him, on whatever charges they can cobble together. The institution that once aspired to norms of nonpartisanship and fact is rapidly buckling under the not inconsiderable weight of falsehood and misrepresentation . Judges who could once take for granted that the Justice Department worked in the interest of something resembling justice are now openly questioning whether department lawyers are even telling the truth . On this week’s Amicus podcast, Dahlia Lithwick spoke to Joyce White

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