Michael Teter, executive director of the Legal Accountability Center, talks with Rachel Maddow about an effort to hold lawyers accountable for championing Trump's transgressive policies in court.

Three US Justice Department lawyers were hit with bar complaints alleging they made misrepresentations to a federal judge in Washington in a union’s challenge to the Trump administration’s teardown of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The move represented a rare attempt to seek accountability for rank-and-file lawyers who have represented the Trump administration in court.