All of the lawyers assigned to the Justice Department’s Sanctuary Cities Enforcement task force have now resigned, with the final member departing this week, after claiming they were not given substantive legal duties.

“The assignment was a sham,” Bonnie Robin-Vergeer, a former chief of the Civil Rights Division’s appellate section who left after six weeks, told The Washington Post. “We did very little.”

The task force was created in the first weeks of the Trump administration, with about a dozen senior career attorneys reassigned from high-profile divisions, including civil rights and national security.

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