Bloomberg Law
Feb. 23, 2017, 10:15 PM UTC

Tips on Resisting Trump Shared as Federal Lawyer Closes Career

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By Jennifer A. Dlouhy, Bloomberg News

Before closing his 30-year career as a U.S. government lawyer last week, Eric Nagle delivered parting advice to his colleagues now working for Donald Trump: “You serve the president, but you don’t serve his every whim.”

On the day he retired from the Interior Department, Nagle authored a widely forwarded e-mail counseling colleagues on how they could best resist from within during these “troubled times": documenting objections, appealing to the inspector general or publicizing their concerns through the press.

“Much that we have worked for seems in peril,” Nagle, who specialized in endangered species ...

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