#Doj-Politicization
Events indexed under #Doj-Politicization — 20 entries in the record.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-12 | DOJ Proposes Rule Giving Attorney General Veto Power Over Bar Complaints Against Government Lawyers U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Todd Blanche · Ed Martin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Bipartisan Senators Request GAO Audit of DOJ Handling of Epstein Files U.S. Senate · Dick Durbin · Ben Ray Lujan · Jeff Merkley · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-11 | Lead Prosecutor in DOJ Criminal Probe of Fed Chair Jerome Powell Replaced U.S. Department of Justice · Jerome Powell · Federal Reserve · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | DOJ Public Integrity Section Gutted from 36 to 2 Lawyers, Stripped of Authority to File Cases U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | DOJ Pursues Retaliatory Investigations of Democratic Officials and Federal Reserve Chair U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Jeanine Pirro · Jerome Powell · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-09 | DOJ Releases Additional Epstein Files After NPR Investigation Exposes Withheld Trump-Related Documents U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Jeffrey Epstein · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-06 | DOJ and FBI National Security Divisions Decimated by Purges as U.S. Confronts Iran War U.S. Department of Justice · U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation · Kash Patel · Donald Trump · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-06 | DOJ Public Integrity Section Collapses to Two Lawyers, Gutting Federal Anti-Corruption Enforcement U.S. Department of Justice · Pam Bondi · Donald Trump · U.S. Public Integrity Section | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-05 | DOJ Releases Previously Withheld Epstein Files Containing Sexual Assault Allegations Against Trump U.S. Department of Justice · Donald Trump · Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2026-03-03 | Kash Patel Fires FBI Counterintelligence Unit That Tracked Iran, Days Before U.S. Strikes Kash Patel · U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation · U.S. Department of Justice · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-13 | Twelve Federal Prosecutors Resign Over DOJ Handling of Renee Good Shooting Joseph Thompson · Thomas Calhoun-Lopez · Melinda Williams · Todd Blanche · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2026-01-02 | DOJ Demands Minnesota Voter Registration Records in Attack on Same-Day Registration Harmeet Dhillon · Steve Simon · Department of Justice | confirmed | |
| 2025-10-04 | Pirro's DC Office Dismisses 21% of Cases in 8 Weeks vs 0.5% Over Previous Decade Jeanine Pirro · Zia Faruqui · Department of Justice · Trump Administration | 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 | |
| 2019-03-24 | Attorney General Barr Releases Misleading 4-Page Summary of Mueller Report William Barr · Robert Mueller · Donald Trump · Rod Rosenstein | confirmed | |
| 2019-02-14 | William Barr Confirmation as Attorney General Enables Systematic DOJ Politicization Using WHIG Template for Crisis-Accelerated Institutional Capture William Barr · Donald Trump · Senate Judiciary Committee · Department of Justice · +6 | confirmed | |
| 2017-01-30 | Trump Fires Acting Attorney General Sally Yates for Refusing to Defend Muslim Ban Donald Trump · Sally Yates · Dana Boente · Jeff Sessions · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2007-06-25 | DOJ Voting Section Politicization: Bush Administration Weaponizes Civil Rights Division for Voter Suppression Alberto Gonzales · Hans von Spakovsky · Bradley Schlozman · John Tanner · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2007-05-23 | Monica Goodling Admits Political Screening of DOJ Lawyers Monica Goodling · Alberto Gonzales · Regent University · U.S. Department of Justice · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2005-08-25 | Hans von Spakovsky Overrules DOJ Career Staff to Approve Georgia Voter ID Law Targeting Black Voters Hans von Spakovsky · Department of Justice Civil Rights Division · Georgia Legislature · Harold Murphy · +1 | confirmed |