Federal Lawyer Quits, Warns Trump Admin Is Creating “a Shitty Country”

John Murdock, a top conservative lawyer at the Department of the Interior, has quit over what he calls an “assault on the rule of law.” Murdock is stepping down after 18 years at the federal agency because, as he wrote in a bombshell resignation letter obtained by The Guardian and Public Domain , “We are headed in the wrong direction.” A self-described…