I hear everything you're saying. But I also think it's fair to say that district court judges have shown grave reluctance to use Rule 11 in situations where they it's warranted (and that greater willingness to impose personal costs on government attorneys might be for the best).

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This bodes well.

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This is a run of the mill scenario of an out of control client fucking you, the lawyer. Every other lawyer knows to eat shit and withdraw. Oh, you would lose your job by withdrawing? So would every other lawyer!

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The other thing is that DOJ in rep of the exec branch for years has behaved as if they are not regular lawyers with the same obligations of all lawyers. They are never doing reasonable investigation of claims, they are never being precise about who their client is.

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Yeah hard agree with that. There’s nothing like “wrong” or “improper” with this approach. My point is that it’s atypical, largely because the contumacious conduct here is coming from counsel rather than a party

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