Documenting the Trump Administration’s Attacks
We’re running the only tracker focused on recording attacks on the Department of Justice. By countering the flood-the-zone strategy with a tool ensuring that critical events are catalogued and easily searchable, it’s become an essential resource for reporters, Congress, and the public.
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Documenting the Trump Administration’s Attacks
We’re running the only tracker focused on recording attacks on the Department of Justice. By countering the flood-the-zone strategy with a tool ensuring that critical events are catalogued and easily searchable, it’s become an essential resource for reporters, Congress, and the public.
[xxxx] Reported Actions Tracked
Documenting the Trump Administration’s Attacks
We’re running the only tracker focused on recording attacks on the Department of Justice. By countering the flood-the-zone strategy with a tool ensuring that critical events are catalogued and easily searchable, it’s become an essential resource for reporters, Congress, and the public.
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Our Statement
Justice Connection in The New York Times: "The president pardons scores of wealthy executives, then creates a new fraud division overseen by the vice president. The D.O.J. drops multimillion-dollar fraud cases, then pursues people alleged to have defrauded SNAP of a few thousand dollars. Enforcement priorities send a message, and their message on fraud is chaotic."
USAO
National Fraud Enforcement Division
Changes in enforcement priorities
White House
Aug 13, 2026
The New York Times reports that DOJ has focused on small-dollar fraud while dropping charges against corporate and wealthy defendants.
NY Times
Our Statement
Justice Connection in The New York Times: "The president pardons scores of wealthy executives, then creates a new fraud division overseen by the vice president. The D.O.J. drops multimillion-dollar fraud cases, then pursues people alleged to have defrauded SNAP of a few thousand dollars. Enforcement priorities send a message, and their message on fraud is chaotic."
USAO
National Fraud Enforcement Division
Changes in enforcement priorities
White House
Aug 13, 2026
The New York Times reports that DOJ has focused on small-dollar fraud while dropping charges against corporate and wealthy defendants.
NY Times
Our Statement
Justice Connection in The Minnesota Star Tribune: "We should all be very concerned by investigative agencies blurring the line between lawful conduct and unlawful violence."
USAO
Changes in enforcement policy
Aug 13, 2026
News breaks that DOJ investigated left-leaning groups, including the AFL CIO, as part of the administration’s Minnesota immigration surge.
NY Times
Our Statement
Justice Connection in The Minnesota Star Tribune: "We should all be very concerned by investigative agencies blurring the line between lawful conduct and unlawful violence."
USAO
Changes in enforcement policy
Aug 13, 2026
News breaks that DOJ investigated left-leaning groups, including the AFL CIO, as part of the administration’s Minnesota immigration surge.
NY Times
Our Statement
Justice Connection in AP: "Thousands [of employees] have left because leadership has consistently violated the principles Blanche articulated: prosecuting defendants based only on the facts and the law; holding those who attack law enforcement accountable; and respecting the courts. Blanche’s platitudes will only resonate if his actions start matching his words."
Department Leadership
Workforce
Aug 13, 2026
Attorney General Blanche tells the DOJ workforce in a speech that he will uphold the rule of law.
AP
Our Statement
Justice Connection in AP: "Thousands [of employees] have left because leadership has consistently violated the principles Blanche articulated: prosecuting defendants based only on the facts and the law; holding those who attack law enforcement accountable; and respecting the courts. Blanche’s platitudes will only resonate if his actions start matching his words."
Department Leadership
Workforce
Aug 13, 2026
Attorney General Blanche tells the DOJ workforce in a speech that he will uphold the rule of law.
AP
Our Statement
Justice Connection in The Hill: "Unlike most nominees who come before the Senate, Todd Blanche has spent four months as DOJ’s top dog and a year as second-in-charge. He’s used that time to shred DOJ’s institutional norms, destroy important offices, revictimize sex crime survivors, eviscerate accountability for January 6, attack the career workforce. By serving as the president’s sword and shield, he’s unraveled the rule of law – leaving our rights, economic interests, safety, and democracy on shaky ground. Nearly 20,000 career employees have left the department, many of whom were fired or forced out for doing their jobs. This is a generational loss of institutional knowledge and expertise that will be impossible to replace. Today’s vote is an affront to the dedicated public servants still there, as they struggle to uphold the law under a leader who doesn’t."
Department Leadership
Nominations
Congressional oversight
Aug 8, 2026
The Senate votes 50-49 to confirm Todd Blanche as Attorney General.
NPR
Our Statement
Justice Connection in The Hill: "Unlike most nominees who come before the Senate, Todd Blanche has spent four months as DOJ’s top dog and a year as second-in-charge. He’s used that time to shred DOJ’s institutional norms, destroy important offices, revictimize sex crime survivors, eviscerate accountability for January 6, attack the career workforce. By serving as the president’s sword and shield, he’s unraveled the rule of law – leaving our rights, economic interests, safety, and democracy on shaky ground. Nearly 20,000 career employees have left the department, many of whom were fired or forced out for doing their jobs. This is a generational loss of institutional knowledge and expertise that will be impossible to replace. Today’s vote is an affront to the dedicated public servants still there, as they struggle to uphold the law under a leader who doesn’t."
Department Leadership
Nominations
Congressional oversight
Aug 8, 2026
The Senate votes 50-49 to confirm Todd Blanche as Attorney General.
NPR
Our Statement
Justice Connection in CBS: "Courts and the public can't trust DOJ to enforce the law fairly and effectively when the administration hires lawbreakers to fill high-level positions."
USAO
Workforce
Aug 7, 2026
News breaks that the law enforcement liaison in the Central District of California was hired despite numerous DUI convictions and a pending battery charge.
CBS News
Our Statement
Justice Connection in CBS: "Courts and the public can't trust DOJ to enforce the law fairly and effectively when the administration hires lawbreakers to fill high-level positions."
USAO
Workforce
Aug 7, 2026
News breaks that the law enforcement liaison in the Central District of California was hired despite numerous DUI convictions and a pending battery charge.
CBS News
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