Career DOJ lawyers fired for crime of doing their jobs

Somewhere Merrick Garland continues to be comforted by the memory of the stirring speech he gave to these people on his way out the door about how he refused to politicize the Department of Justice:
The Justice Department said Monday that it fired several career lawyers involved in prosecuting Donald Trump, escalating the president’s campaign of retribution against his perceived enemies.
The employees worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation that led to now-dismissed indictments against Trump over his handling of classified documents and his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the lead-up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
“Today, Acting Attorney General James McHenry terminated the employment of a number of DOJ officials who played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump,” a Justice Department official told NBC News. “In light of their actions, the Acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President’s agenda. This action is consistent with the mission of ending the weaponization of government.”
Among those let go, an official familiar with the matter told NBC News, were career prosecutors Molly Gaston, J.P. Cooney, Anne McNamara and Mary Dohrmann.
Smith resigned earlier this month ahead of Trump’s inauguration. Trump’s re-election effectively ended the federal criminal cases against him due to the Justice Department’s long-standing policies against prosecuting a sitting president.
Note that these are not political appointees: This is not, for example, a president replacing USA’s with his own people. This is firing career civil servants because they were given perfectly legitimate assignments by their superiors, and then tried to perform them.
Under normal conditions this by itself would be a gigantic scandal, but under current conditions this won’t even be a story.
And hearty pat on the back to all the Law Knowers who spent a couple of years enlightening us who had some doubts about whether Garland was really up to the job.
. . . If you’re wondering how the president can fire career civil servants for no cause (unless trying to enforce the law against Donald Trump counts as a for-cause firing), the answer is that Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought is now head of OMB, and is enforcing a Trump executive order that reclassifies huge numbers of career civil service jobs as “policy positions,” so that the people in them can be fired without cause.