DiGenova taking over Brennan case is the news but on far left is a less-noticed SDFL hire - Jed Doty, lawyer in Trump 1 WH & Gov. DeSantis, is now appellate chief. It’s quite uncommon for someone with political background & no DOJ experience to vault into a US atty’s office career management.

Trump Lawyer diGenova to Take Over Miami Grand Conspiracy Probe Joe diGenova, the president’s former personal attorney who’s frequently advanced false conspiracy theories on conservative media, will take over the Justice Department’s investigation into former CIA ...

New: Trump DOJ brings in fresh blood to run grand conspiracy probe of Brennan & co. - former Trump lawyer/Fox News conspiracy theorist Joe diGenova.
At 81, the Reagan-era US attorney who called for execution of Chris Krebs, will be counsel to AG Blanche.
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CNN reported first on veteran Miami national security chief Maria Medetis leaving the investigation.
It's unclear who is now leading day-to-day operations of Brennan and related matters, but DeLorenz recently transferred to SDFL to take on this & other cases.

Justice Department Shakes Up Probe Into Alleged Trump Conspiracy The Justice Department is shaking up the team probing former CIA Director John Brennan as part of a broad investigation into an alleged years-long conspiracy against President Donald Trump, according ...

Scoop: As top prosecutor exits DOJ grand conspiracy probe into Brennan & co., a less experienced political appointee recently joined the case.
Todd Blanche aide & former Cannon clerk during Jack Smith case, Christopher-James DeLorenz, is now handling Brennan. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

DOJ Moves Fraud Attorneys to New Division, Reversing Plans (1) The Trump Justice Department is attempting to surge anti-fraud cases by transferring white-collar prosecutors to a new division, backtracking on assurances to career attorneys that they’d remain insul...

DOJ’s elite fraud section was largely shielded from Trump’s partisan intrusion over past year & was assured separation from JD Vance’s fraud initiative. In one fell swoop yesterday, that ended, sparking deep concerns of weaponized white collar enforcement. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Here's the memo: www.justice.gov/ag/media/143...
An odd wrinkle is Civil Div fraud section is spared, for now. Trump administration says this is about returning stolen taxpayer dollars, so why focus on criminal lawyers, not civil False Claims Act attys who recover billions?

Update: Memo reorganizing DOJ to create new fraud div. is now public. It also moves fraud section's tax unit over and takes support from appellate and money laundering offices. There's a 30-day interim period at which point DAG will consider whether to make the reorg permanent.

DOJ Fraud Staffers to Be Protected From New White House-Led Unit The Justice Department plans to insulate its criminal and civil fraud sections from a White House-run enforcement initiative rather than merge them into the newly established fraud division, according...

Here's my story from January, breaking the news that Duva had told Fraud Section they weren't moving to the new division. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Three months after Duva assured Fraud Section lawyers they are staying put, career staff at Main Justice's foremost corporate crime enforcement office are feeling deeply concerned and betrayed, people familiar with the situation tell me

Sources tell me Trump-appointed Criminal Division leader Tysen Duva tried -- and failed -- to keep his team protected from new fraud initiative, which many have panned as politically-motivated

DOJ Poaches Fraud Attorneys for New Division in Reversal of Plan The Trump Justice Department is attempting to surge anti-fraud cases by transferring white-collar prosecutors to a new division, backtracking on assurances to career attorneys that they’d remain insul...

Scoop: DOJ reneges on commitment to Fraud Section attorneys that they'd be insulated from new Trump/Vance-driven Fraud Division. White collar specialists learned today--after Todd Blanche told the public--they'll be deployed to new anti-fraud team. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

DOJ Admits ‘Unprecedented’ National Security Staffing Challenges The Justice Department acknowledged facing “unprecedented” national security workforce constraints due to high turnover compounded by rising overseas threats and new responsibilities, according to a d...

ICYMI - tucked inside dozens of budget docs released Friday was an extraordinary admission from DOJ's National Security Division on 'unprecedented' personnel challenges (during a war), after Trump removed veteran leaders & others headed for exits
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Contrary to report in Daily Wire, I’m told Woodward has not yet resigned from DOJ. Civil rights head Dhillon has a key ally in this planned maneuver: WH Counsel David Warrington, who used to work at her law firm.

Trump Plans to Promote Dhillon as DOJ’s No. 3, Removing Woodward President Donald Trump is discussing elevating Harmeet Dhillon to the Justice Department’s No. 3 post of associate attorney general, which would force out an official with close White House ties for a...

More Bondi firing fallout brewing at DOJ, as Trump appears ready to remove another loyal senior official - associate AG Stanley Woodward, who has represented many in Trump’s orbit - & replace with more vocal MAGA warrior Harmeet Dhillon. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

DOJ Admits ‘Unprecedented’ National Security Staffing Challenges The Justice Department acknowledged facing “unprecedented” national security workforce constraints due to high turnover compounded by rising overseas threats and new responsibilities, according to a d...

In surprising candor, DOJ admits its National Security Division facing “unprecedented personnel constraints.” List of attrition and workload challenges - as NSD tackles threats during Iran war - are tucked into DOJ document accompany budget. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

DOJ Watchdog Accused of Abdicating Oversight of Trump Leaders The Justice Department’s internal oversight offices have refused to pursue their traditional roles investigating senior officials at a time of unprecedented Trump-era misconduct, whistleblower attorne...

NEW: DOJ Inspector General refused to investigate whistleblower Erez Reuveni's misconduct complaint against Emil Bove & other top officials, as watchdog accused of failing to probe political scandals under Trump news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Top Prosecutor Defending Trump Policies Quits to Help Immigrants Until last week, Sara Miron Bloom oversaw the US attorney’s office in Rhode Island frequently defending Trump’s immigration crackdown and other core White House policies in court.

Earlier this month Sara Bloom oversaw a US attorney's office routinely defending Trump immigration policies in court. Last week she left DOJ and is already fighting against it on behalf of detained immigrants. My story: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has been charged with stealing $5m in FEMA funds & using it to support her campaign.

She argues she’s innocent & is being targeted by Trump’s DOJ.

Yet she sought a pardon from Trump at last year’s WH Christmas party, according to The Hill.

Top Prosecutor Defending Trump Policies Quits to Help Immigrants Until last week, Sara Miron Bloom oversaw the US attorney’s office in Rhode Island frequently defending Trump’s immigration crackdown and other core White House policies in court.

Earlier this month Sara Bloom oversaw a US attorney's office routinely defending Trump immigration policies in court. Last week she left DOJ and is already fighting against it on behalf of detained immigrants. My story: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Update - Department spox issues statement confirming that district court negotiated a deal with Trump DOJ on choosing Robert Frazer as new US atty. This is a pretty surprising de-escalation from the nationwide trend, but will it hold in other districts?

Court Selects New Jersey Prosecutor to Replace Office Leaders The federal trial court in New Jersey has appointed a current line prosecutor as New Jersey’s US attorney, substituting him for the Trump administration’s three-person leadership structure that’s been...

NEW: Court appoints a new US attorney in New Jersey to replace leadership trio judge ruled was illegal. But a post from Alina Habba suggests this pick won't get instantly fired like the others. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Over the weekend, GOP-controlled MSPB snuck in a major gift for Trump and his ability to keep terminating federal employees. Read all about it, now in front of the paywall ⬇️

DOJ Civil Rights Division hire resigned from Alabama firm over Facebook post following George Floyd's murder Daniel Flickinger was one of the DOJ lawyers who sued Harvard on Friday. As recently as last June, he was still fighting in court over the fallout from the 2020 Facebook post.

Sometimes the numbers at DOJ tell a story of what is happening there. Sometimes it’s a single hire that tells the story.

Tonight, at Law Dork.

Washington Litigation Group's Nathaniel Zelinsky, counsel for fired IJs, says he'll appeal to federal circuit first thing Monday. “If this decision stands, millions of federal workers will live in fear of arbitrary abuse and unjust discrimination."

Immigration Judge Firings Upheld in Boost for Trump Worker Cuts A federal panel has affirmed the attorney general’s constitutional right to terminate Justice Department immigration judges, a sweeping precedential departure that may hand President Donald Trump broa...

NEW: Federal panel issues 'extraordinary' ruling supporting constitionality of Trump federal worker firings, determining Attorney General had Article II power to remove immigration judges news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Great deep dive in NY Times today on DOJ's aggressive push to charge protesters, including some lively new anecdotes on Aakash Singh's role steering the administration's most controversial prosecutions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/u...

Judges Don’t Extend Term of Utah US Attorney Awaiting Senate Vote Utah federal judges declined to extend the Trump-appointed interim US attorney, the first red-state district court to reject the administration’s approach to installing chief prosecutors—and the first...

New: For 1st time under Trump phenomenon of judges not extending term-expired interim US attorneys, it’s now happened in a red district - to Utah’s Melissa Holyoak - & to someone about to get Senate confirmed news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

UPDATE: DOJ's March 13 memo to US attorneys' offices specified that hiring policy suspension in effect thru Feb. '27 & "was implemented due to an exigent hiring need for attorneys across the Department.”

DOJ spox: “Under the leadership of" AG Bondi & DAG Blanche, this DOJ "is proud to empower young and passionate prosecutors & offer attys at every level the opportunity to invest their talents into keeping their communities safe, including from the predators the previous administration welcomed"

DOJ to Allow Hiring of US Prosecutors Straight Out of Law School The Justice Department has waived a policy requiring newly hired federal prosecutors to possess at least one year of experience practicing law, as US attorney’s offices struggle to find qualified repl...

SCOOP: DOJ has waived policy requiring newly hired prosecutors to have least a year (more often 3 years) experience practicing law. As DOJ struggles to replace mass departures w/ qualified applicants, this move allows hiring straight out of law school. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...