CNN reports that federal judges in Rhode Island took the unusual step of appointing a special counsel to investigate alleged misconduct by a senior Justice Department attorney in an immigration case. The piece situates the appointment within a broader pattern: judges in Chicago, Minneapolis, and Washington, D.C., have tried to hold the Trump Justice Department accountable for inaccurate filings, withheld information, and defiance of court orders, but their efforts have repeatedly been stymied through the appeals process, stonewalling, and other tactics. Notably, some of the sharpest criticism of DOJ conduct has come from Republican-appointed judges. The story is directly relevant to LADD: it documents government lawyers themselves becoming the mechanism by which executive branch overreach is operationalized, and the difficulty courts face in enforcing professional and ethical norms against them.