Why do so many Trump holdovers still work at Justice?

[Kid Berwyn]

Click in a box on the Org Chart and it opens to the page with relevant info:

https://www.justice.gov/agencies/chart

Me, I’d have canned the lot of them January 20, 2021.

[Ocelot II]

1. If they are civil service employees they can't be sacked easily, but

I wonder to what extent any of them are throwing spanners in the works of some important investigations.

[Midnight Writer]

2. Civil service employees can be sacked easily. But they will have the right to appeal.

I was a civil service employee, and I worked on many of those appeals.

Some took over a year to get a single hearing, some stretched out over two or three years.

Many sacked employees gave up and went to other jobs, because they do not get paid while the appeals process goes on.

Any manager worth his salt can find a reason to fire an employee, although it may not hold up on appeal.

[lagomorph777]

3. Because Garland allows them to?

Next question?

[Scrivener7]

4. Why, indeed.

[Hortensis]

5. I don't accept your premise, but I do feel sure that if it WAS you

you wouldn't "have canned the lot of them." Because they did what they did.

Regarding the unspecified "lot of them," there's a fair number of boxes representing many people below the directors' level. No idea how many levels down your lot extends.

I think you'd be best off assuming that those appointed to clean up that place, and others working there, are not only angry that these people were/are there but to a far larger degree than we can be. They tend to know who they are, after all, and much of what they may have done and intended to do. Most or all of those who were known to destroy what they're having to rebuild and undo will already be gone, of course. Some of the worst no doubt had their computer access turned off at 12:01 on January 20.