NEWS - President Trump is expected to fire the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after his office was unable to find incriminating evidence of mortgage fraud against New York AG Letitia James, sources tell ABC. Reporting w/ @alexmallin.bsky.social & Peter Charalambous

NEW - Trump eyeing Fox News host Jeanine Pirro for top prosecutor in DC. Reporting w/ @wsteaks.bsky.social abcnews.go.com/US/trump-eyi...

NEW -- A former law clerk to Judge Aileen Cannon -- who dismissed the classified documents case against Pres. Donald Trump -- is now serving in the Justice Department directly under Trump's former defense lawyer-turned Deputy AG Todd Blanche. W/ @alexmallin.bsky.social abcnews.go.com/US/former-cl...

NEWS - Elon Musk's disclosure of planned Social Security fraud arrest troubles top law enforcement officials: Sources. Story w/ @wsteaks.bsky.social & @alexmallin.bsky.social abcnews.go.com/US/elon-musk...

Federal law court clerks grapple with bullying and abuse - an NPR investigation www.npr.org/2025/03/01/n...

NEWS -- After clashes with AG's top aide, a White House liaison pushing 'loyalty' to Trump at DOJ is reassigned: Sources abcnews.go.com/US/after-cla...

New: After clashes with AG's top aide, a White House liaison pushing 'loyalty' to Trump at DOJ is reassigned: Sources w/ @kfaulders.bsky.social and Mike Levine abcnews.go.com/US/after-cla...

NEWS - As soon as DOJ's Public Integrity Section was informed it would be taking over Mayor Adams case, John Keller, the acting head of the unit and his boss, Kevin Driscoll, the senior most career official in DOJ's criminal division resigned, according to multiple sources. bsky.app/profile/kfau...

via @kfaulders.bsky.social @alexmallin.bsky.social & Aaron Katersky

New: The acting head of DOJ's Public Integrity Section, John Keller, and his immediate supervisor Kevin Driscoll -- the top career official leading the Criminal Division -- have resigned after being instructed to take over and dismiss Mayor Eric Adams' case for SDNY.

"No “process of national reconciliation” can begin when poor losers, whose preferred candidate loses an election, are glorified for disrupting a constitutionally mandated proceeding in Congress and doing so with impunity." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW -- President Trump is preparing to issue a sweeping series of pardons for defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, including commuting the prison sentences of hundreds of his supporters who have been convicted of violent attacks against law enforcement, sources tell me

NEWS -- Supreme Court Justice Alito spoke to Donald Trump Tuesday to recommend a former law clerk for a job in the new admin. Call occurred hours before Trump's lawyers asked the justices to block Trump's criminal hush money sentencing. abcnews.go.com/US/trump-spe...

LOL at the notion that the IG would’ve finished a report on 2024 already, glad Alex proved that was wrong!

Last week, the DOJ Inspector General released a vague summary of a report, saying that 3 former officials had violated DOJ policies by leaking "non-public DOJ investigative information" to "select reporters, days before an election." (1/3)

The report specifically pointed to a text message he sent in mid-October 2020, describing a proposed leak to a major New York-area tabloid about reviews of COVID-related deaths at nursing homes ... as "our last play on them before [the] election" via @alexmallin.bsky.social & Mike Levine

New: Internal watchdog found that DOJ officials under Trump may have sought to influence 2020 election through media leaks, per report I obtained via FOIA. More: abcnews.go.com/US/internal-...

THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files. It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.

Trump Picks Key Figure in Project 2025 for Powerful Budget Role Russ Vought has spent years building plans to rework the US structure of government in ways that would enhance presidential power. (gift link) w/ @maggiehaberman.bsky.social & Jonathan Swan nyti.ms/497Vsjd