NAAUSA Winter Newsletter - February 2025
NAAUSA Reaches Out to Attorney General regarding the Urgent Need to Retain Assistant U.S. Attorneys to Combat Drug Cartels, Fraud, and Immigration Crimes
On behalf of the National Association of Assistant United States Attorneys (NAAUSA), representing the interests of over 6,000 Assistant United States Attorneys serving in 94 federal districts across the country, I write to you today with deep concern regarding the Department of Justice’s ongoing loss of recently hired and experienced Assistant United States Attorneys (AUSAs)—a crisis that threatens our nation’s ability to combat drug cartels, violent crime, fraud, and immigration-related offenses.
The departure of skilled federal prosecutors, combined with policy decisions that make recruitment and retention more difficult, including those that threaten to gut our future AUSA career bench through termination of probationary employees and the cancellation of DOJ Honors Program hires, threatens our ability to carry out DOJ’s mission of ensuring the fair administration of justice and protecting public safety.