Trump civil rights chief’s ‘best and brightest’ boast crumbles hire by hire: legal expert

A former prosecutor ripped apart the Trump Justice Department's claim that its new civil rights lawyers rank among the nation's finest. Lawyer and journalist Katie Phang, a former Miami-Dade prosecutor, picked through the records of new hires in the DOJ's Civil Rights Division on Wednesday's episode of "The Katie Phang Show," drawing on a New York Times…