Trump's loyalist prosecutors keep going down in flames

President Donald Trump's key demand from his hires is now working against him in a big way.

On Thursday, lawyer Norm Eisen and legal reporter Adam Klasfeld agreed that there is some reason for "hope" as Trump's administration fights so many cases across the country.

Klasfeld began listing all of the huge losses Trump has suffered in the past two years, including 22 cases that are specifically about trying to get sensitive voter data from states.

'The first case is against Letitia James and James Comey utterly collapsed," Klasfeld said. "And I think that his next case against James Comey will head in that direction as well. So I think that there's reason for — for lack of a better word, optimism. I think that when people talk about our institutions holding, it's [the] people in the institutions. It's civil society. It's people who are donating to civil society. It's people who are protesting on the streets in historic numbers who are pushing back against the archipelago of ICE warehouses that have now been shut down — that plan — because of civic engagement."

He said that Eisen's "optimism" is actually "realism."

Klasfeld cited some of the specific failures by Trump's loyalist attorneys, either prosecutors at the main DOJ or the U.S. attorneys in states around the country. Meanwhile, new Attorney General Todd Blanche told "Meet the Press" over the weekend that there is no such thing as an independent Justice Department.

Eisen asked Klasfeld his opinion on why Trump would specifically want "his cronies" in those key offices, even if they keep losing cases.

In the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the DOJ lost another case where they attempted to install Trump ally Sigal Chattah.

"If there's anything equal to the losing track record of the Trump DOJ in the voter roll litigation, it's the U.S. attorney litigation where you have Todd Blanch and Donald Trump trying to stack every district with loyalists that they know can't get Senate confirmation," said Klasfeld.

Trump had tried a workaround, he explained, where he appointed her as a "first assistant" and simply had her act as the U.S. attorney. In other instances Trump has tried to appoint someone a deputy U.S. attorney who would then take over once the timeline expired for the acting U.S. attorney. That effort failed too, and Alina Habba was removed from her post.

"So, I think we should keep that in mind when the Ninth Circuit slaps down the idea that they don't need to go to Congress for a U.S. attorney. And when the Trump Justice Department says a quiet part out loud and tells James Comey in response to his motion to dismiss for vindictive prosecution that there's no independent Justice Department. Well, you know, about a half dozen or so of your disqualified U.S.attorneys have found out otherwise," Klasfeld said.

Even in the Ninth Circuit Court case, Klasfeld made it clear that giving someone a new title while they continue to run the office doesn't cut it.

One of those loyalists is Jeanine Pirro, who risked her ethics by filing a federal case, based only on what, without having any investigation done by the FBI.

"What the record has been is when they try to install these loyalists who can't get Senate confirmation, they lose," he summed up. "That's why the case against James Comey collapsed and Letitia James collapsed because they tried to put Lindsey Halligan in the Eastern District of Virginia."

While Trump likes to cite Article II of the Constitution, Article III makes it clear, that "the judges get to appoint because, unlike Article 2, the executive personnel decisions, we are all, us lawyers, are all officers of the court," he closed.