Doj-Weaponization

DOJ Expands Voter Data Seizure Campaign to 18 States, Demanding Social Security Numbers and Driver's Licenses

| Importance: 10/10

The Department of Justice announced on December 12, 2025 that it had sued four additional states—Colorado, Hawaii, Massachusetts, and Nevada—demanding complete, unredacted voter registration lists including driver’s license numbers and partial Social Security numbers, bringing the total number …

Department of Justice Harmeet Dhillon Jena Griswold Bill Galvin Andrea Joy Campbell +4 more voter-suppression doj-weaponization surveillance-state electoral-manipulation civil-liberties +2 more
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Federal Judge Dismisses Indictments Against Letitia James and Comey, Ruling Halligan's Appointment Unlawful

| Importance: 10/10

U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie dismissed criminal indictments against New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey on November 24, 2025, ruling that interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan lacked lawful authority to bring the cases. In separate but parallel …

Cameron McGowan Currie Letitia James James Comey Lindsey Halligan Pam Bondi +5 more political-prosecution judicial-independence doj prosecutorial-misconduct retaliation +5 more
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DOJ Admits Grand Jury Never Saw Final Comey Indictment; Trump's Former Personal Attorney Leading Prosecution

| Importance: 9/10

In a stunning courtroom admission during a November 19, 2025 hearing, the Justice Department acknowledged that the full grand jury never reviewed the final indictment against former FBI Director James Comey. Prosecutor Tyler Lemons confirmed that only two grand jurors—the foreperson and one other …

James Comey Lindsey Halligan Michael Dreeben Judge Michael Nachmanoff Donald Trump +3 more doj-weaponization vindictive-prosecution abuse-of-power grand-jury legal-violation +2 more
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Judge Finds Halligan Misrepresented Law and Used Tainted Evidence in Comey Grand Jury

| Importance: 9/10

Federal Magistrate Judge William Fitzpatrick issued a scathing ruling on November 17, 2025, finding that interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan may have fundamentally undermined the integrity of the grand jury proceedings against former FBI Director James Comey. In a devastating opinion, the judge …

William Fitzpatrick Lindsey Halligan James Comey Department of Justice FBI +2 more prosecutorial-misconduct fifth-amendment tainted-evidence judicial-rebuke doj-weaponization +2 more
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Bondi Announces New Epstein Investigation Days Before House Vote, Creating Cover for Redactions

| Importance: 8/10

On Friday, November 15, 2025, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced via X (formerly Twitter) that she had ordered a new federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Trump political opponents, assigning Manhattan U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton to lead the probe. The announcement came just …

Pam Bondi Jay Clayton Donald Trump Thomas Massie Bill Clinton +3 more epstein cover-up doj-weaponization pam-bondi strategic-timing +3 more
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Comey and James File Consolidated Challenge to Halligan's Authority Under 120-Day Rule

| Importance: 10/10

Former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James filed coordinated motions challenging the constitutional authority of interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan to prosecute their cases, with both challenges consolidated before Judge Cameron McGowan Currie of the District of …

James Comey Letitia James Lindsey Halligan Judge Cameron McGowan Currie Erik Siebert +1 more doj-weaponization institutional-capture rule-of-law-erosion constitutional-crisis appointments-clause +1 more
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Trump Administration Systematically Uses Mortgage Fraud Charges Against Political Adversaries

| Importance: 9/10

The Trump administration established a pattern of targeting political adversaries through the Federal Housing Finance Agency with mortgage fraud investigations. Beyond Letitia James’s indictment, the pattern includes investigations against Fed Governor Lisa Cook and Senator Adam Schiff, all …

Letitia James Lisa Cook Adam Schiff William Pulte Federal Housing Finance Agency +1 more political-prosecution systematic-corruption doj-weaponization retaliatory-prosecution
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Erdogan Says Trump Promised to End Halkbank Sanctions Prosecution

| Importance: 9/10

Turkish President Erdoğan publicly stated that Trump promised to end the Halkbank sanctions-evasion prosecution despite a Supreme Court ruling allowing the case to proceed. The state-run Turkish bank faced accusations of laundering billions of dollars for Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions. …

Donald Trump Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Halkbank DOJ doj-weaponization foreign-influence sanctions-violations institutional-capture
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DOJ Employee Sean Dunn Fired After Throwing Sandwich at Federal Agent in Protest

| Importance: 7/10

Sean Dunn, a 37-year-old DOJ criminal division employee, was fired by Attorney General Pam Bondi after throwing a Subway sandwich at U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agent Gregory Lairmore during protests against Trump’s federal law enforcement surge in Washington, D.C. The incident occurred …

Pam Bondi Sean Dunn doj weaponization federal police dissent
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Trump DOJ Fires Jack Smith Special Counsel Team in Systematic Purge

| Importance: 9/10

Trump administration Justice Department fires at least 35 DOJ employees who worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith investigations into Trump’s classified documents case and January 6th election interference. Fired prosecutors included career attorneys Molly Gaston, J.P. Cooney, Anne McNamara, …

James McHenry Jack Smith Molly Gaston J.P. Cooney Anne McNamara +2 more doj-weaponization trump-administration special-counsel prosecutor-firings jack-smith +2 more
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DOJ Orders Complete Freeze on All Civil Rights Division Cases and Enforcement

| Importance: 10/10

Trump’s Justice Department leadership ordered a complete freeze on all Civil Rights Division litigation and enforcement activities through internal memos sent by Chief of Staff Chad Mizelle to acting division head Kathleen Wolfe. The memos prohibited attorneys from filing “any new …

Department of Justice Chad Mizelle Kathleen Wolfe (Acting Civil Rights Division Head) Donald Trump Harmeet Dhillon doj-weaponization civil-rights voting-rights police-accountability civil-rights-division +3 more
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Jeffrey Clark Attempts DOJ Coup to Overturn Election

| Importance: 9/10

Environmental lawyer Jeffrey Clark attempted to use the Department of Justice to overturn the 2020 election by sending false fraud letters to swing states. Clark drafted a letter falsely claiming DOJ had identified ‘significant concerns’ about the election and urging Georgia to convene a …

Jeffrey Clark Donald Trump Jeffrey Rosen Richard Donoghue Department of Justice constitutional-crisis institutional-capture coup-attempt january-6 kleptocracy +6 more
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