Department of Justice
Department of Justice is named in 315 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 1908 to 2026.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-08-29 | DOJ Loosens Requirements to Deploy ~600 Military JAG Officers as Immigration Judges Department of Justice · Trump · U.S. Military | reported | |
| 2025-08-29 | Federal Prosecutors Charge Veteran for Flag Burning Following Trump DOJ Directive Despite Supreme Court Precedent Department of Justice · Trump · Federal Prosecutors | reported | |
| 2025-08-26 | DOJ Launches Probe Into FBI/CIA Officials Over Russia Investigation Records Under Kash Patel and Dan Bongino Kash Patel · Dan Bongino · Department of Justice · James Comey · +1 | reported | |
| 2025-08-25 | Trump Orders Prosecution of Flag Burning Despite Supreme Court Ruling Donald Trump · White House · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-25 | Trump Signs Executive Orders Eliminating Cashless Bail, Threatening Federal Funds Donald Trump · White House · Department of Justice · Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-22 | DOJ Releases 377-Page Transcript of Maxwell-Blanche Interview, Denies Client List Department of Justice · Ghislaine Maxwell · Todd Blanche | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-21 | Federal Judge Rules Alina Habba Unlawfully Serving as U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Trump · Alina Habba · Department of Justice · Federal Judiciary | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-19 | Trump Installs Unconfirmed Loyalists as US Attorneys, Bypassing Senate Donald Trump · Alina Habba · Pam Bondi · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-19 | Trump-Appointed US Attorney Investigates DC Police for 'Fake' Crime Data Jeanine Pirro · Donald Trump · DC Metropolitan Police · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-18 | DOJ Escalates Investigation of Senator Adam Schiff: Ed Martin Appointed Special Attorney, Investigation Stalls, Then Grand Jury Probes the Investigators Adam Schiff · Pam Bondi · Ed Martin · Bill Pulte · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-15 | FHFA Director Pulte Uses Mortgage Data to Target Fed Governor Lisa Cook William Pulte · Lisa Cook · Federal Reserve · fhfa · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-05 | Chairman Comer Issues 11 Subpoenas Including Clintons and Former AGs James Comer · Bill Clinton · Hillary Clinton · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-05 | DOJ Launches Mortgage Fraud Investigation Targeting Senator Adam Schiff Department of Justice · Adam Schiff · U.S. Attorney's Office (Maryland) · Federal Housing Finance Agency · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-05 | DOJ Publishes Official List of 35 "Sanctuary" Jurisdictions, Escalating Federal-State Confrontation Over Immigration Enforcement Department of Justice · Donald Trump · 13 Sanctuary States · 18 Sanctuary Cities | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-04 | DOJ Inspector General 'Lost' Whistleblower Complaint Against Trump Judicial Nominee for Three Months DOJ Office of Inspector General · Whistleblower Aid · Emil Bove · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-02 | Senate Confirms Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for Washington D.C. Jeanine Pirro · Trump · U.S. Senate · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | DOJ Uses Legal Loopholes to Install Trump Loyalists as Acting U.S. Attorneys Without Senate Confirmation Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · U.S. Senate · Federal Judiciary · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Far-Right Activist Laura Loomer Orchestrates Mass Loyalty Purges Across Trump Administration Laura Loomer · Donald Trump · National Security Agency · Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | FBI Redacted Trump's Name from Jeffrey Epstein Files Under Privacy Protections Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice · Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Ghislaine Maxwell Transferred to Minimum-Security Texas Prison Camp After Meeting with DOJ Officials Ghislaine Maxwell · Todd Blanche · Department of Justice · Bureau of Prisons · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-08-01 | Supreme Court Expands Louisiana Redistricting Case to Challenge Section 2 of Voting Rights Act U.S. Supreme Court · Department of Justice · Louisiana · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-24 | UnitedHealth Confirms DOJ Criminal and Civil Investigation for Medicare Advantage Upcoding Fraud UnitedHealth Group · UnitedHealthcare · Department of Justice · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-23 | House Oversight Subcommittee Votes 8-2 to Subpoena DOJ for Epstein Files U.S. House Oversight Committee · Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) · Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) · Rep. Brian Jack (R-GA) · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-21 | Trump Administration Defying 35% of Court Orders in Unprecedented Constitutional Crisis Trump Administration · Federal Courts · Department of Justice · Federal Agencies | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-16 | Trump Calls Own Supporters "Weaklings" and "Selfish People" After Demanding Epstein File Transparency Donald Trump · Tucker Carlson · Laura Loomer · Marjorie Taylor Greene · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-12 | Bondi Fires 20 Justice Department Employees Tied to Trump Prosecutions Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Trump Prosecutors · January 6 Prosecutors · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-12 | Trump Calls Own Supporters "Weaklings" and "Selfish People" After Demanding Epstein File Transparency Donald Trump · Tucker Carlson · Laura Loomer · Marjorie Taylor Greene · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-08 | Musk Floods X with 35+ Posts Attacking Trump Over Epstein "Cover-up" Elon Musk · Donald Trump · X/Twitter · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-07 | DOJ blocks further Epstein file releases Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Laura Loomer · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-07-07 | DOJ Releases Memo Declaring No Epstein "Client List" Exists Department of Justice · Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-30 | Federal Judiciary Develops New Constitutional Enforcement Mechanisms Federal Judiciary · Judicial Conference · Administrative Office of U.S. Courts · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-15 | Federal Judicial System Faces Unprecedented Integrity Challenge Margaret Satterthwaite · UN Special Rapporteur · Supreme Court Justices · Sen. Cory Booker · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-06-09 | DOJ Issues Transformative FCPA Guidelines Prioritizing U.S. National Interests Department of Justice · Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-29 | CMS Rescinds EMTALA Guidance Requiring Emergency Abortion Care Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Department of Justice · U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-07 | Supreme Court Confronts Systemic Emoluments Violations U.S. Supreme Court · Department of Justice · Executive Branch | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-05 | Congressional Hearing Exposes Systematic Judicial Intimidation Tactics Senate Judiciary Committee · Chief Justice John Roberts · U.S. Marshals Service · Supreme Court Justices · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-01 | AG Bondi briefs Trump on his appearances in Epstein files Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-05-01 | DOJ Sues Aetna, Humana, Elevance for Paying Illegal Medicare Advantage Kickbacks and Discriminating Against Disabled Beneficiaries Department of Justice · Aetna · CVS Health · Humana · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-24 | Indicted 'Bitcoin Jesus' Pays Roger Stone $600,000 to Lobby Against Tax Charges Roger Ver · Roger Stone · Donald Trump · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-22 | Federal Courts Reach Impasse on Presidential Emoluments Enforcement D.C. Circuit Court · 4th Circuit Court · Department of Justice · U.S. Congress | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-17 | Judge Rules Google Operates Illegal Ad Tech Monopoly, Orders Divestiture of Ad Business Judge Leonie Brinkema · Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-11 | DOJ fires immigration attorney for refusing to lie to federal courts about deportations Erez Reuveni · Emil Bove · Department of Justice · Pam Bondi | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Federal Judges Establish Precedent for Presidential Accountability Federal Judiciary · U.S. Supreme Court · Department of Justice · Rebecca Slaughter · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Judicial System Struggles with Presidential Accountability Mechanisms Federal Circuit Courts · Department of Justice · Presidential Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-10 | Mass Judicial Removal Attempt Triggers Constitutional Emergency Trump Administration · Federal Judiciary · Department of Justice · White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-04 | World Liberty Financial Sells $25 Million in Tokens Days Before DOJ Crypto Unit Disbanded Trump Family · World Liberty Financial · DWF Labs · Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-04-02 | Judge Dale Ho Dismisses Eric Adams Corruption Case With Prejudice, Citing Apparent Quid Pro Quo With Trump DOJ Dale Ho · Eric Adams · Donald Trump · Danielle Sassoon · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | DOJ Drops Voting Rights Cases in Georgia, Virginia, and Alabama, Abandoning Federal Enforcement Pamela Bondi · Department of Justice · Civil Rights Division · Brad Raffensperger · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-31 | Trump Administration Continues Systematic DOJ Prosecutor Purge Trump Administration · Department of Justice · James McHenry · Career Prosecutors | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-25 | Trump Signs EO 'Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections' — Proof of Citizenship, Mail Ballot Restrictions Donald Trump · Department of Homeland Security · Department of Justice · U.S. Postal Service · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-15 | Trump administration coerces law firms into $940 million of free legal work Trump Administration · Major law firms · Paul Weiss · Kirkland & Ellis · +7 | confirmed | |
| 2025-03-04 | DAEO Ethics Waiver Abrogates Patel's One-Year Qatar Recusal 12 Days After FBI Confirmation Kash Patel · Jolene A. Lauria · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-27 | Attorney General Bondi Releases First Phase of Declassified Epstein Files, Initiating Multi-Phase Document Releases Through November 2025 Pamela Bondi · Jeffrey Epstein · Department of Justice · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-21 | DOJ drops immigration discrimination case against SpaceX Department of Justice · Elon Musk · SpaceX · Tesla | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-18 | Trump Asserts Unitary Executive Control Over DOJ, Echoing Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre Donald Trump · Michael C. Dorf · Department of Justice · Heritage Foundation | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Attorney General Bondi Establishes 'Weaponization Working Group' to Target Prosecutors Pam Bondi · Weaponization Working Group · Department of Justice · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | DOJ Kleptocracy Initiative Shuttered: Major Setback for Anti-Corruption Enforcement Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative · KleptoCapture Task Force · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-15 | Trump Administration Systematically Removes DOJ Prosecutors James McHenry · Michael Ben'Ary · Jack Smith · Donald Trump · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-14 | DOJ Public Integrity Section Gutted After Mass Resignations Over Adams Case Department of Justice · Emil Bove · Eric Adams · Danielle Sassoon · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | Trump Executive Order Pauses Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement Donald Trump · Pamela Bondi · Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-10 | Trump signs order pausing enforcement of foreign bribery ban Donald Trump · Trump Administration · William Barr · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-06 | Trump Administration Disbands Task Force Targeting Russian Oligarchs Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Task Force KleptoCapture · Russian Oligarchs | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-05 | Attorney General Bondi Narrows FCPA Focus to Cartels While Pausing Corporate Bribery Cases Pamela Bondi · Donald Trump · Department of Justice · U.S. corporations | confirmed | |
| 2025-02-01 | DOJ and FBI gut public corruption enforcement teams Pam Bondi · Kash Patel · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-31 | Federal Prosecutors Withdraw from Andy Ogles Criminal Investigation Andy Ogles · U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Tennessee · Department of Justice · John P. Taddei · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-24 | DOJ Orders Limits on FACE Act Enforcement, Weakening Abortion Clinic Protection Department of Justice · Chad Mizelle · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-22 | DOJ Orders Complete Freeze on All Civil Rights Division Cases and Enforcement Department of Justice · Chad Mizelle · Kathleen Wolfe (Acting Civil Rights Division Head) · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-21 | AG Pam Bondi Eliminates DOJ KleptoCapture Unit and Foreign Influence Task Force Pam Bondi · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Trump Administration | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Commerce Secretary Lutnick Maintains $600 Million Tether Stake Despite DOJ Investigation and Senate Scrutiny Howard Lutnick · Cantor Fitzgerald · tether · Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump designates Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations Donald Trump · Secretary of State · Department of the Treasury · Department of Justice · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-20 | Trump Signs Unconstitutional Executive Order Challenging Birthright Citizenship Donald Trump · Department of Justice · U.S. Supreme Court · Asian Law Caucus · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-09 | DOJ Blocks Epstein File Releases, Pam Bondi Lies About "Client List" Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Jeffrey Epstein Estate · US Intelligence | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-01 | President Biden Issues Full Pardon for Son Hunter Despite Repeated Promises Not To Joe Biden · Hunter Biden · David Weiss · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2024-10-16 | Raytheon Pays $950 Million to Settle Charges of Defrauding Pentagon, Bribing Qatar, and Patriot Contract Fraud Raytheon · Department of Justice · Qatar · U.S. Department of Defense · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-16 | Sean Combs arrested on federal racketeering and sex trafficking charges Sean Combs · Department of Justice · SDNY · Federal Prosecutors | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-04 | DOJ Unseals Indictment Revealing $10 Million Russian Funding of Tenet Media Influencers Department of Justice · RT (Russia Today) · Tenet Media · Tim Pool · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-04 | Justice Department Seizes 32 Russian Disinformation Domains Mimicking U.S. News Sites, Exposes Kremlin Operation Directed by Putin Aide Department of Justice · Merrick Garland · Sergei Kiriyenko · Vladimir Putin · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-16 | Humana Pays $90 Million to Settle First-of-Its-Kind Medicare Part D Fraud Case for Fraudulent Bidding Humana · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · Department of Justice · Steven Scott (whistleblower) | confirmed | |
| 2024-08-05 | Federal Judge Rules Google is Illegal Monopolist in Landmark Search Antitrust Decision Judge Amit Mehta · Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-18 | DaVita Pays $34 Million to Settle Third Kickback Case in Decade, Revealing Systematic Fraud Business Model DaVita · Dennis Kogod · Department of Justice · DaVita Rx | confirmed | |
| 2024-07-01 | Paul Pelosi Visa Stock Sale Controversy Paul Pelosi · Nancy Pelosi · Rick Scott · Visa Inc. · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-27 | Supreme Court Rejects $6B Purdue Pharma Settlement Granting Sackler Family Immunity from Opioid Lawsuits U.S. Supreme Court · Sackler Family · Purdue Pharma · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2024-05-14 | DOJ Finds Boeing Breached Deferred Prosecution Agreement After Door Plug Blowout Department of Justice · Boeing · Federal District Court · Criminal Division Fraud Section · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-21 | DOJ Sues Apple for iPhone Monopoly Maintained Through Ecosystem Lock-In and Developer Restrictions Department of Justice · Apple · Tim Cook · 16 State Attorneys General | confirmed | |
| 2024-02-27 | DOJ Launches Antitrust Investigation of UnitedHealth's Vertical Integration Strategy and Optum Physician Acquisitions Department of Justice · UnitedHealth Group · UnitedHealthcare · Optum | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-16 | JetBlue-Spirit Merger Blocked by Court, Rare Victory for Biden Antitrust Enforcers Department of Justice · JetBlue Airways · Spirit Airlines · Judge William Young | confirmed | |
| 2024-01-05 | Boeing 737 MAX Scandal Summary - 346 Deaths, $2.5B Fine, Zero Executive Prosecutions Boeing · Federal Aviation Administration · 346 crash victims · Dennis Muilenburg · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2023-12-18 | FTC and DOJ Release 2023 Merger Guidelines Rejecting Consumer Welfare Standard Federal Trade Commission · Department of Justice · Lina Khan · Jonathan Kanter | confirmed | |
| 2023-11-21 | Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao Plead Guilty to Money Laundering in $4.3 Billion DOJ Settlement Changpeng Zhao · Binance · Department of Justice · Merrick Garland · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2023-06-08 | Trump indicted on 37 federal charges for classified documents Donald Trump · Jack Smith · Walt Nauta · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2023-03-15 | DOJ Arrests Guo Wengui in Landmark $1 Billion Fraud Conspiracy Guo Wengui · Ho Wan Kwok · Kin Ming Je · Department of Justice · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-24 | DOJ Sues Google Over Ad Tech Monopoly, Seeks Historic Breakup Department of Justice · Google · Sundar Pichai · Jonathan Kanter · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-18 | Jack Smith appointed Special Counsel to investigate Trump Jack Smith · Merrick Garland · Donald Trump · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-15 | Roger Stone settles DOJ civil lawsuit for $2.1 million Roger Stone · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2022-07-01 | Roger Stone Settles $2.1 Million Tax Fraud Case Over Drake Ventures Shell Company Roger Stone · Department of Justice · Internal Revenue Service · drake-ventures-llc | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-27 | Trump allegedly orders deletion of Mar-a-Lago surveillance footage Donald Trump · Carlos De Oliveira · Walt Nauta · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2022-06-03 | Christina Bobb signs false attestation that all classified documents returned Christina Bobb · Evan Corcoran · Donald Trump · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-11 | Grand jury issues subpoena demanding all classified documents from Trump Donald Trump · Department of Justice · Federal grand jury | confirmed | |
| 2022-03-01 | Task Force KleptoCapture Launched: US Expands Anti-Kleptocracy Operations Merrick Garland · Andrew Adams · Department of Justice · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-17 | National Archives retrieves 15 boxes with 184 classified documents from Mar-a-Lago Donald Trump · National Archives · Department of Justice | confirmed |
Network neighbors
Donald Trump
76× shared
Pam Bondi
56× shared
Federal Bureau of Investigation
24× shared
Trump Administration
19× shared
Todd Blanche
15× shared
Federal Trade Commission
13× shared
Thomas Massie
13× shared
U.S. Congress
12× shared
Lindsey Halligan
10× shared
Jeffrey Epstein
9× shared
National Security Agency
9× shared
Securities and Exchange Commission
9× shared
U.S. Supreme Court
9× shared
James Comey
8× shared
Ro Khanna
8× shared
Letitia James
7× shared
Pamela Bondi
7× shared
Antitrust Division
6× shared
Emil Bove
6× shared
Eric Holder
6× shared
Federal Judiciary
6× shared
Federal Reserve
6× shared
Ghislaine Maxwell
6× shared
Google
6× shared
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