Geopolitics

Becoming a federal prosecutor was a longtime professional dream for Erika Evans, one she achieved nearly four years ago.

But Evans soured on her job as an assistant US attorney in Seattle this year soon after President Donald Trump returned to the White House. She cites the Justice Department rolling back diversity initiatives and defending Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship.

“It just like felt like, ‘Oh my goodness, this is not the Department of Justice that I know,’” Evans recalled. “We were getting notices to report on colleagues doing diversity work in the office, and that if we reported it within 10 days, we wouldn’t be in trouble,” she said. “Crazy, crazy things.”