Overview

• Justice Connection estimates show over 200 Department of Justice career employees have been terminated since early July under Bondi’s authority.
• Federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, daughter of ex-FBI director James Comey, was fired on July 16 without explanation.
• The purge has also removed immigration judge Jennifer Peyton and top ethics official Joseph Tirrell, along with at least 20 attorneys and support staff from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team.
• James Comey warned in a Substack video that the wave of dismissals threatens a “grave danger” to the department’s reservoir of trust.
• Lawmakers from both parties have sounded alarms over risks to ongoing Jan. 6, Epstein and other high-profile investigations and to internal morale.