US EditionInside a Year of Firings that Have Shaken the Trump Justice Department: 'A Great Deal of Fear'
Attorney General Pam Bondi's firings amid an ICE shooting probe follow a Justice Department trend that saw over 230 employees dismissed last year, raising concerns of politicization.
- Upon President Donald Trump's return to the White House, more than 6,400 employees left the U.S. Department of Justice, which had roughly 108,000 staff at the end of 2025.
- Driven by a push to speed deportations and pursue political prosecutions, the administration ordered personnel changes including firing temporary-assignment prosecutors per then-Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove's memo.
- Employees described abrupt removals, often notified by email with phones disabled and little explanation; the group of 15 fired attorneys surrendered devices in the same room they started in 2023.
- The departures have produced immediate staffing gaps, causing backlogs and staff shortages, with senior DOJ leaders soliciting applications to fill gaps and prosecutions set for trial last month postponed, including the unfinished Kabul airport bombing prosecution.
- Former officials cautioned that the exodus harms the public interest, while the Justice Department said it hired more than 3,400 career attorneys and defended the terminations; over 200 employees left in 2025.
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How the Trump administration erased centuries of Justice Department experience
As Attorney General Pam Bondi approaches her first anniversary on the job, the firings of career attorneys have defined her turbulent tenure. The terminations and a larger voluntary exodus of lawyers have erased centuries of combined experience.
Trump privately criticizes AG Pam Bondi as 'weak,' 'ineffective': Report
A new report claims that President Donald Trump has privately complained to his aides in recent weeks regarding Attorney General Pam Bondi’s leadership of the U.S. Justice Department. The Wall Street Journal reported that anonymous Trump administration officials and sources familiar with the president’s complaints told the outlet that Trump has privately criticized Bondi as “weak” and as an “ineffective enforcer” of his administration’s agenda. …
Inside a year of firings that have shaken Trump Justice Department: ‘Great deal of fear'
Michael Ben’Ary was driving one of his children to soccer practice on an October evening last year when he paused at a red light to check his work phone. He was in the middle of a counterterrorism prosecution so important that President Donald Trump highlighted it in his State of the Union address. Ben’Ary said he was shocked to see his phone had been disabled. He found the explanation later in his personal email account, a letter informing him …
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Inside a year of firings that have shaken the Trump Justice Department: 'A great deal of fear'
As Attorney General Pam Bondi approaches her first anniversary on the job, the firings of career attorneys have defined her turbulent tenure.
Attorney General Pam Bondi Fires Six Minnesota Prosecutors for Refusing ICE Support
We’ve all seen this festering for years—a quiet rebellion inside our own government. Unelected, career bureaucrats, deeply embedded in federal agencies, have openly worked to... The post Attorney General Pam Bondi Fires Six Minnesota Prosecutors for Refusing ICE Support appeared first on Patriot Journal.
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