Justice Department and Law Enforcement Oversight

An aggressive wave of firings and resignations at Attorney General Bondi’s Justice Department has removed what watchdogs estimate as more than 230 DOJ lawyers and roughly 6,400 overall departures in 2025 — erasing “centuries of combined experience” across national security, civil‑rights, environmental, ethics and Jan. 6 prosecutions, former acting AG Stuart Gerson warned. The purge has included veteran counterterrorism prosecutor Michael Ben'Ary, whose DOJ phone was remotely disabled and who was fired mid‑case after a right‑wing commentator highlighted his past work under Deputy AG Lisa Monaco, and the formal termination of multiple Minnesota AUSAs (including No. 2 Joseph Thompson) amid a dispute over the ICE‑shooting probe while the FBI excludes local prosecutors and state leaders launch parallel investigations.