Aug 7, 2025 Bloomberg Law
Stephanie Barclay, a professor at Georgetown Law, discusses the Trump administration memo encouraging proselytizing in the federal workplace. Justin Henry, Bloomberg Law reporter, discusses the young lawyers who left lucrative jobs because of their principles. David Voreacos, Bloomberg legal reporter, discusses lawsuits over the Trump administration’s maneuvers to keep Alina Habba as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey. June Grasso hosts.

It does prohibit those sorts of expressions from rising to the level of harassment or constituting an undue burden, But the memo does say that people just merely having discomfort alone isn't enough to count as an undue burden in a government workplace. And so I think it's just trying to normalize that if people in the workplace are allowed to talk about their favorite sports teams or type of food that they'd like to cook, they should be able to talk about their religion too. [...] ...if there's a break and employees engage in [inaudible] polite discussion about their faith and a nonadherent requests that to stop, then some sorts of requests [...] need to be honored in order to not rise the level of creating a harassing sort of environment.