Updated with Jeanine Pirro's statement praising prosecutor who tried to indict 6 Dems: "Any attempt to undercut his expertise is nothing more than an effort to detract from his excellent prosecutorial record to which few can compare. And by the way, everybody has a hobby."

Apologies - we are correcting the story to note that Carlton Davis, the other Pirro hire who presented this case to grand jury yesterday, was briefly an EDVA line prosecutor in 2018.

NEWS: DOJ lawyer who tried & failed to indict 6 Dem lawmakers over military video runs an active dance photography studio & worked for US Atty Pirro decades ago. Grand jury rejected indictment from lawyers w/ no prior DOJ backgrounds. Experts were walled off. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

DOJ spox confirms judicial impeachment effort in statement: “The Dept. of Justice solicited the most egregious examples of this obstruction from our US Attorney Offices to assist Congress with efforts to rein in judges violating their oaths"

Scoop: A Trump DOJ official recently asked all US attorneys for examples of perceived judicial activism -- i.e., adverse rulings -- to inform potential impeachment referrals to Congress. This would escalate DOJ's clash with the bench. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Well before DOJ workload crisis defending detained migrant petitions spilled into public view in MN, 6 US attorneys warned judiciary of the resource-draining flood. Predictably, it has since exploded. Story w/ @ccastronuovo.bsky.social & Megan Crepeau: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Exclusive: DOJ is requiring all 93 US attorneys to designate prosecutors for "emergency jump teams" supporting surge districts dealing with assaults & obstruction of federal officers, per internal memo. Comes as more Minn. prosecutors resign. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Update - judge orders DOJ to explain how FIFA corruption dismissal would serve interests of justice and impact numerous other convictions and hundreds of millions in penalties news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Scoop: AG Bondi gave St. Louis US Attorney Thomas Albus special appointment with nationwide authority to probe voter fraud. This explains why Albus, not the Atlanta US attorney, was on FBI's Fulton County search warrant yesterday. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Exclusive: Sen. Grassley sends sharply-worded oversight letter to Labor Sec. Chavez-DeRemer over ethics scandal, a shift from Judiciary Chairman's protection of Trump appointees facing misconduct claims & sign she's losing support from Rs. W/ Tre'Vaughn Howard: news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

NEW: Justice Dept. inspector general issues annual list of top challenges facing DOJ that strips reference to political motivation that was a core concern in prior reports. This report was 5 times longer last year & warned of accusations of partisanship. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

News: Kash Patel renews purge of senior FBI officials & agents across US, including some involved in J6 & Mar-a-Lago cases. Some were investigated by FBI internal misconduct body, which didn't recommend they be fired, but Patel overrode those conclusions. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEW: Justice Dept. informs Congress of a reorg that appears to backtrack from JD Vance's statement that White House will run new fraud division. Assistant AG for fraud will report to DAG Blanche, not Trump or Vance. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEW: Trump pardon of former Puerto Rico governor failed to include a relevant criminal case www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

One of Trump’s pardons went to Terren Peizer, a healthcare CEO convicted of insider trading in a case prized by prosecutors for showcasing DOJ’s cutting edge use of data analytics to root out fraud. What’s their motivation for pursuing more of these cases? news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEWS: Trump is about to pardon a wealthy Venezuelan bank owner whose daughter paid $3.5M to MAGA Inc., & the ex-Puerto Rican govenor who'd endorsed Trump in 2020. Prosecutors accused the duo of a bribery scheme. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

News: To replace the Minnesota fed prosecutors who quit in protest, DOJ is sending military lawyers, healthcare fraud specialists, & volunteer line prosecutors from Detroit & LA, per senior official. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

This, from @benjaminpenn.bsky.social, is a good update on Epstein review. But thus far no one is answering Q Pam Bondi probably doesn't want to answer. DOJ spent 1000s of person-hours in March doing review. What purpose did it serve that it all got scrapped? news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Exclusive: DOJ is throwing hundreds of new attorneys at Epstein doc review but officials are frustrated they’re off to “very rocky start” with many issues awaiting guidance & more than two-thirds of 232 Crim Div reviewers failing to hit 1k pages per day mandate news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Exclusive: DOJ is throwing hundreds of new attorneys at Epstein doc review but officials are frustrated they’re off to “very rocky start” with many issues awaiting guidance & more than two-thirds of 232 Crim Div reviewers failing to hit 1k pages per day mandate news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

The question is whether the White House fraud team will run parallel or duplicative investigations alongside the actual DOJ fraud team #compliance #FCPA #fraud #corpgov

Scoop: DOJ tells existing fraud enforcers they’ll be insulated from White House’s Minnesota-fueled fraud division that’ll report directly to Trump, Vance news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

New: JD Vance's announcement of a White House-run DOJ fraud division set off widespread confusion and concerns about a duplicative, politicized effort. “It seems like whoever had this idea doesn’t really know how DOJ works." news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Re-upping this story, now that White House's announcement of new assistant atty gen. for fraud seems to supplant this position.

Bondi aide Ashley Hayek weighs in after we published: “Baseless accusations & false narratives may help this struggling reporter get more clicks but the truth remains—this Dept of Justice has ended weaponization & does not make politicized decisions like the previous administration.”

Duva was tested before even taking the reins: While awaiting senate confirmation, he got into a testy exchange with Miami US Attorney Jason Reding Quinones, who was trying to rush to grand jury to indict a Dem lawmaker before prosecutors were ready, imperiling the case.

News: A new DOJ criminal chief Tysen Duva was quietly sworn in over the holidays. White House pressure & other political landmines that his departing interim predecessor (a close ally of Todd Blanche) staved off will now challenge Duva, a 1st-time manager. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Important reporting, which also provides fuller picture of what preceded DOJ’s lenient deal for Venezuelan banker accused of bribery. It wasn’t just former Trump lawyer lobbying DAG’s office, per @bloomberglaw.com exclusive, but also daughter’s $2.5m donation. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Scoop w/ @pathurtado37: DOJ Solicitor General John Sauer directed Trump's EDNY US attorney Nocella to abandon his office's FIFA bribery convictions. Nocella tried pushing back but wasn't given a meeting. Now US may need to return millions in penalties. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Scoop w/ @pathurtado37: DOJ Solicitor General John Sauer directed Trump's EDNY US attorney Nocella to abandon his office's FIFA bribery convictions. Nocella tried pushing back but wasn't given a meeting. Now US may need to return millions in penalties. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEW: DC US Attorney Pirro demoted criminal chief picked by Ed Martin after numerous court setbacks. Pirro had long sought to replace him, but abrupt demotion said to be linked to his handling of lawsuit that may tank DOJ's ability to re-charge James Comey. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEW: DC US Attorney Pirro demoted criminal chief picked by Ed Martin after numerous court setbacks. Pirro had long sought to replace him, but abrupt demotion said to be linked to his handling of lawsuit that may tank DOJ's ability to re-charge James Comey. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEW: Lindsey Halligan's next-in-line as top prosecutor in EDVA, Robert McBride, resigned from prior senior role at a different US attorney's office in 2010 amid multiple employee complaints about his management. External DOJ report recommended he step down. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEW: Lindsey Halligan's next-in-line as top prosecutor in EDVA, Robert McBride, resigned from prior senior role at a different US attorney's office in 2010 amid multiple employee complaints about his management. External DOJ report recommended he step down. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Attention is rightly focused on ex-DOJ civil rights workers condemning Trump mission overhaul. But read full statement from a current Civil Rights Division employee about the workplace struggles for the minority who haven’t left, excerpted in our story earlier news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Ex-Civil Rights Div attorneys blast Trump DOJ overhaul while current employee says, "We are working in an environment of hostility & disrespect from leadership...we never know who is going to be forced to stop their work or be terminated or transferred" news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

ICYMI - Justice Dept. leaders & White House wreaked 'havoc' by eliminating a Trump I priority of supporting prosecutors combing through mountains of electronic evidence, per resigning official. Digital data challenges have derailed key cases for DOJ. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

White House and DOJ leaders have completely abandoned a Trump 1st-term priority of confronting major challenges for department litigators drowning in rising electronic evidence, says the official overseeing this work in a scathing resignation note. My story: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Veteran criminal chief demoted in EDVa. A retired EDNC guy is parachuted in. By @benjaminpenn.bsky.social news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

AG Bondi implements Trump policy by directing FBI to undergo massive collection of domestic terrorism intelligence focused on antifa, per internal memo obtained by @bloomberglaw.com: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Deputy AG Todd Blanche to white collar lawyers this morning: DOJ is monitoring your LinkedIn posts & client memos for inconsistencies when they complain of weak Trump enforcement, only to seek relief from prosecutor weaponization news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Scoop: FBI aims to escalate its inquiry into 6 Democrats who made video for troops by pressing domestic terrorism squad to launch a formal seditious conspiracy investigation. Washington Field Office leaders are pushing back b/c they don't see a crime. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

News: DOJ demotes Lindsey Halligan's criminal chief as her office weighs new charges against Jim Comey, Tish James. Nearly two-decade EDVA veteran replaced by a North Carolina transplant. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEWS: DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel has blessed the use of Lindsey Halligan's name as US Attorney on her prosecutors' court filings despite a judge ruling she was illegally appointed. They're advised to add DAG Todd Blanche to the signature block as well. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Halligan should be listed in the signature block used on all pleadings as “United States Attorny and Special United States Attorney,” according to the email, which misspells “Attorney.”

NEWS: DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel has blessed the use of Lindsey Halligan's name as US Attorney on her prosecutors' court filings despite a judge ruling she was illegally appointed. They're advised to add DAG Todd Blanche to the signature block as well. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

News: DOJ has sent US attorneys scrambling to meet a Thanksgiving eve deadline to collect vast amounts of case data showing progress in meeting Trump directives, such as crackdowns on immigration and political violence in wake of Charlie Kirk shooting news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Lost in the huge Comey/James dismissals is Halligan has a new No. 2, an ex-prosecutor parachuting in from Ky., who'd be in line to refile the Trump retribution charges depending on outcome of appeal. Robert McBride has no EDVA experience. w/ Celine Castronuovo: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Motion denied. Case proceeds to summary judgment hearing Dec. 2. Smartmatic statement: "The court made clear that Fox's attempts to delay accountability won't work, and its day of reckoning is coming."

A hearing is getting under way in NY Supreme Court to consider Fox News' motion to postpone a ruling on Smartmatic's $2.7B defamation suit until DOJ's recent bribery indictment of voting machine co. is resolved. ICYMI on the unusual Trump DOJ charges - news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...