The Times has an important story today that makes clear that Rod Rosenstein was one of the DOJ officials driving the Trump Administration's heinous child separation policies. And that should matter. 1/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/us/politics/family-separation-border-immigration-jeff-sessions-rod-rosenstein.html?action=click&module=News&pgtype=Homepage

It should matter to law students who might consider working for, and clients who might consider hiring, the law firm Rosenstein now works for: King & Spalding @kslaw 2/ https://www.kslaw.com/people/rod-rosenstein

Do you, as a law student, want to work for a firm that employs a guy who directed a massive government program of child abuse? Do you, as a client, want to hire that firm? 3/

This isn't some small thing -- the Times article describes how Rosenstein pushed U.S. federal prosecutors to prosecute the parents of immigrants with little kids -- even infants -- with the result that the kids would be separated from their parents. And just to be clear ... 4/

... these are almost entirely prosecutions of people who'd committed no crime other than entering the country unlawfully. In the past, prosecutors didn't prosecute in these cases. They certainly did not prosecute parents if the result would be separation from small children. 5/

The Trump Administration decided that little kids and babies didn't matter, and they ordered U.S. attorneys to prosecute. It was Rod Rosenstein who enforced these orders when U.S. attorneys balked. 6/

This isn't a political difference over which we politely disagree. This was a decision, carried out in large part by Rosenstein, to subject thousands of little kids to the horror of being separated from their parents. This is monstrous, inhuman, inexcusable behavior. 7/

And we all know how it was carried out: in a way that shows that Rosenstein and others at the DOJ didn't gave a damn about these kids. They held the kids in awful conditions. They gave them to strangers. They lost track of them. 8/

Rod Rosenstein does not deserve to work at @kslaw. He does not deserve to make millions of dollars working for a reputable law firm after doing the horrible things he did to those poor kids. 9/

I am asking law students to think hard about whether you want to work at a law firm that employs a man like Rosenstein. And I'm asking law students to helps spread the word and to help start a discussion about something that's absolutely vital. Which is ... 10/

God willing, the nightmare of Donald Trump is going to end, soon. And when it does, we all must face the question of accountability. Do we turn away from the crimes -- the many crimes -- that Trump and his enablers have committed? Or do we insist on consequences? 11/

That is a big question, but we can start with Rosenstein. He does not deserve to rejoin decent society. At least not before he fully discloses what he did, and why, and both expresses regret and takes action to help, at least in some small way, to heal the many wounds ... 12/

... that his indecent behavior has inflicted on children and their parents. 13/

I want everyone to look at this picture of pain. This happened to thousands of kids and their parents. The DOJ and the Trump Administration lied about it and covered it up. Rod Rosenstein's decisions and actions were at the root of almost all of it. 14/

Photo credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images. 15/

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