Nearly 300 Recent DOJ Employees Issue Call to Fight for the Justice Department

Justice Connection Memorializes Employee Farewell Letters on Its Website

Justice Connection today released a letter signed by almost 300 recent career Justice Department employees urgently calling on all Americans to fight for the department before it’s too late.

The letter comes a day before Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee – her first appearance before Congress since her confirmation – and days after the end of the Deferred Resignation Program, when approximately 4,500 employees were officially separated from the department.

Many of them are now willing to publicly sound the alarm about the administration’s degradation of the Justice Department’s vital work and its assault on the public servants who do it.

Each signature is from a career employee who left the department since January – either voluntarily or involuntarily – because of actions taken by this administration. They include prosecutors, special agents, intelligence analysts, immigration judges, grant managers, and more. Each faithfully carried out their duties, regardless of who occupied the White House – until they no longer could.

“The backbone of the Justice Department is