Ms. Young criticized the department’s leadership over what she called “cruelty and hypocrisy” in its insistence “on zealous advocacy by career staff in advancing the president’s priorities, while shaming and firing those who did just that in the prior administration.”

The real abuse is not the enforcement of the FACE Act, but DOJ firing career civil servants for upholding the law. Read Justice Connection’s full statement on the FACE Act report: www.thejusticeconnection.org/statement-on...

DOJ is continuing to retaliate against dedicated civil servants for doing their jobs and upholding the law. www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-fir...

DOJ sued over predatory lending and improper foreclosures at Colony Ridge. So why does their settlement send over $20 million to immigration enforcement while victims get nothing? DOJ abandoned them.

Trump’s $10 billion IRS suit is exactly the kind of self-dealing that corrodes the rule of law. That’s why Justice Connection is part of a coalition urging Congress to ban presidents from profiting off claims against the government they control.

Under Harmeet Dhillon, DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is pushing out hundreds of experienced career staff and replacing its civil rights mission with Trump’s political retribution agenda.

The administration is once again reviving the FACE Act religious-worship argument career prosecutors avoided for decades because they knew it didn't pass constitutional muster.

Stretched-thin DOJ lawyers are losing credibility in court. The “presumption of regularity” has been replaced with “profound skepticism” under this administration, Justice Connection’s Stacey Young said.

Federal investigations should only be opened based on the facts and law, not as a last ditch effort to appease the president and keep one’s job, as Pam Bondi did here.

Justice Connection’s Stacey Young lays out in @contrariannews.org how Pam Bondi took a sledgehammer to DOJ – gutting its independence, hollowing out its workforce, and shattering public trust.

“I love you, sir.” This is humiliating, and yet another sign that DOJ has lost its independence.

Trump’s blanket J6 pardons sent a message that political violence doesn't have consequences. Pardoned rioters have since been charged with child molestation, assault, and theft. When the president tells criminals the rules don’t apply to them, this is the result. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/o...

Mike Feinberg’s warning on MS Now explains how we got here. DOJ and FBI reforms that were never codified into law are now being bulldozed by officials who see their job as serving the White House, not the public.

Former FBI analyst Philip Fields breaks down the numbers on DOJ’s mass exodus in Justice Connection’s latest Substack. This data-driven piece breaks down how the hollowing out of experienced DOJ staff is making the country less safe. justiceconnection.substack.com/p/by-the-num...

The Justice Department is supposed to serve the American people. Under President Trump, it has been warped to serve one man.

Trump threatened to escalate war with Iran this weekend as his own Justice Department acknowledged “unprecedented” national security staffing limitations. 40% of NatSec Division prosecutors are gone. We are less safe when career experts are pushed out.

Justice Connection’s Stacey Young recently joined a @StanfordLaw panel w/ @lawyeroyer, Greg Rosen, and Professor Pam Karlan on what happens when political pressure tests DOJ’s independence – and what the next generation of public servants can learn from this moment. stanforddaily.com/2026/04/03/i...

When DOJ workers were left without support inside the department, Justice Connection helped fill the void. One former DOJ attorney said, “having folks that I can trust on the outside to rely on and to turn to when I need, often, legal advice, has been incredibly important.”

Justice Connection’s Stacey Young statement on the firing of Attorney General Pam Bondi: www.thejusticeconnection.org/statement-on...

Trump is leaving U.S. Attorney’s Offices without leadership because for him, political loyalty matters more than fidelity to the rule of law.

This admin's "flood the zone" strategy makes it hard to keep up with attacks on the rule of law. That's why we built the DOJ Tracker. In March, FBI experts focused on Iranian threats were forced out days before the US waged war on Iran. Catch up here: justiceconnection.substack.com/publish/post...

In the digital age, DOJ’s cases depend on how well the department handles electronic evidence. In Justice Connection’s latest Substack, John Haried lays out how this admin has jettisoned the framework ensuring DOJ has the tools & skills to fully leverage evidence. open.substack.com/pub/justicec...

DOJ’s own watchdog is reportedly sitting on roughly 20 credible misconduct referrals while the administration defies courts and retaliates against whistleblowers. An appalling lack of accountability at every level.

DOJ reportedly shut down more than 23,000 criminal investigations to make room for Trump’s mass deportation agenda.  Safety and justice are sacrificed when political priorities override real threats of terrorism and fraud.

DOJ and the FBI aren’t tools to settle political scores. Reopening an investigation into an elected official during a competitive election solely because he is an opponent of the president erodes the public’s faith in an independent justice system.

Stacey Young joins @talkingfeds.bsky.social to discuss DOJ’s unprecedented stonewalling of MN state and local law enforcement. She also warns that the president’s political retribution campaign is inflicting lasting harm on DOJ’s career civil servants. Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4coH...

Trump’s DOJ agreed to pay Michael Flynn $1.25 million to settle his lawsuit after Flynn pleaded guilty — twice — to lying to the FBI.  An independent Department of Justice does not write checks to the president’s allies.

Former DOJ staff don’t want to just see the department rebuilt as it was – they want to see it strengthened to withstand the types of attacks it has endured over the past 14 months. Watch Stacey Young’s full interview on CBS: www.cbsnews.com/video/former...

“The department needs to be rebuilt in a way that is more durable so that a president in the future who believes that he is the law can’t tear it down as easily as this one has,” Stacey Young tells CBS. Watch her break down what it will take to rebuild.

State bars ensure that lawyers, including at DOJ, are subject to independent oversight. In Justice Connection’s Substack, advisory committee members Jennifer Ricketts & Rupa Bhattacharyya explain why DOJ’s absurd proposed rule undermines accountability. justiceconnection.substack.com/p/dojs-propo...

DOJ has gutted enforcement of crypto fraud and corporate misconduct. If they truly cared about going after fraud, instead of weaponizing it against immigrants and political enemies, they would restore resources and staffing to existing enforcement efforts.

DOJ is arguing Article II overrides civil service protections and lets leadership fire immigration judges at will. It’s a roadmap to a federal workforce whose main qualification is political loyalty.

Good. To restore public trust and achieve accountability, DOJ should work with — and not against — state and local officials on investigations like these.

DOJ has quietly gutted the office that helps low-income immigrants afford legal aid. Reassigning the lawyers who run this program won’t just hurt vulnerable people, it will further strain an already backlogged immigration system.

“To live up to its name, DOJ must be apolitical and impartial — and career DOJ professionals, who worked there for years across administrations, are the ones who can speak most credibly to what an apolitical and impartial Justice Department should look like,” Justice Connection told POLITICO.

DOJ’s credibility depends on evenhanded enforcement of the law. If decisions are now influenced by whomever has the best Trump-world access, it’s an alarming sign of corruption taking hold within the Department.

It’s not too soon to think about how to repair the damage this administration has done to the Justice Department.

Iran has the reach and history to retaliate inside the U.S. warns former FBI and DOJ national security officials Mike Feinberg and Troy Edwards. After the admin gutted our counterterrorism apparatus, the question is whether we’ll detect threats before it’s too late.

Agents who worked on Trump investigations were targeted and fired without any process from the moment Trump got back in office. For Patel – who used taxpayer money to party at the Olympics – to claim they violated ethics rules is a clear attempt at deflection.

Tom Padden spent decades at DOJ fighting drug cartels under admins of both parties. He testified that illegal boat strikes that kill crews and sink evidence are not an effective anti-cartel strategy. As he put it, “Americans are less safe today than we were 15 months ago.”

Kash Patel told senators under oath that no one would be fired over case assignments and that he would respect the FBI’s review process. That was a lie. Now agents are suing after being fired for doing their jobs: www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-age...

Domestic terrorism is a real threat. Twisting its definition to punish political opponents threatens civil liberties and distracts from actual danger. A timely reminder from former DOJ domestic terrorism counsel Tom Brzozowski: justiceconnection.substack.com/p/domestic-t...

Making public an ongoing investigation right after an official resigns in protest looks like yet another example of this administration using the Justice Department as a tool to target the president's critics.

As the President pulls us further into war with Iran, our national security is being hollowed out by leadership that values loyalty over expertise.

At the very moment Iran-related domestic terror threats are rising, this administration has hollowed out the counterterrorism ranks at DOJ and the FBI. Justice Connection’s Stacey Young on MS Now warns how that makes America less safe.

Justice Connection warns that since the start of the Trump admin, about half of DOJ’s counterterrorism prosecutors and roughly a third of its senior leadership have left the National Security Division. At a moment of rising threats, that kind of loss of experience is a real national security threat.

Former DOJ ethics chief Joseph Tirrell warns that the Justice Department is lowering its own ethical guardrails – blurring the line between official speech and political advocacy. And that’s how public trust in the justice system is eroded.

Justice Connection’s Stacey Young calls out Trump DOJ’s pattern of weaponizing investigations against perceived enemies on MS Now. “There was a mountain of evidence that DOJ did not bring this case [against Jerome Powell] to enforce the law…but to advance President Trump’s political agenda.”

Choosing to go to war with Iran while gutting the very offices meant to defend against domestic terrorism threats is reckless and dangerous. Justice Connection’s Stacey Young on MS NOW breaks down what an unprecedented loss of national security experts at DOJ and FBI means right now.

A settlement over predatory loans targeting Hispanic families should compensate victims, not steer $20m to immigration enforcement. Sasha Samberg-Champion, a DOJ alum and @natfairhouse.bsky.social counsel, breaks down DOJ’s miscarriage of justice: justiceconnection.substack.com/p/colony-rid...