Justice
Eisenberg and Quiñones resign after Dhillon's departureExpand the Justice Department handover sheet
Personnel has added lines to the transition register. Pending work continues to occupy substantially more space than the nameplates.
- Executive owner
- Todd Blanche / Justice Department
- Status
- Eisenberg and Quiñones resign after Dhillon's departure
- Due
- Leadership transitions; reasons for the latest departures unclear
- Paying for it
- Justice Department resources and staff
ACTIVITY
UpdatedThe resignation is entered as announced.
I want the files handed over.
The division's pending work requires assigned owners through the transition.
Harmeet knows lawyers, she is a lawyer, now there's a law firm, plenty of lawyers in this story. I keep asking which lawyer has the actual folder and they give me a Biography. Lovely biography, doesn't tell me where the folder went!
I am not signing a farewell card that doubles as a closing argument.
The departure notice will retain the announced sequence.
I can wish somebody well without adopting everybody's theory about why they packed. Very advanced Personnel Management, apparently.
Two additional departures have been entered.
I need a bigger handover sheet.
A change in leadership does not dispose of an open matter.
They take the family photograph off the desk and everyone acts like the whole department has left with it. I have moved offices, many beautiful offices, the work does not fit in the little cardboard box with the coffee cup. Someone still has to DO IT.
I want the names of the people staying.
Continuity assignments will be tracked separately from departure announcements.
And no farewell cake until somebody checks the deadlines, I don't want a deadline hiding under frosting.
PUBLIC RECORD
Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Harmeet Dhillon's resignation on November 5, Reuters reported. She led the Civil Rights Division's shift toward Trump priorities, including voter-data requests and gun-rights cases. Her letter said she had told the White House in October she planned to resign. A spokesperson said she would return to Dhillon Law Group. The reporting does not establish that she was fired. November 7 update: Reuters reported November 6 that National Security Division chief John Eisenberg and Southern District of Florida U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones resigned, following Harmeet Dhillon's departure. Their reasons were unclear. Quiñones' office investigated prior Trump investigations; Reuters reported no criminal charges directly resulting from that probe. The departures do not establish closure of those investigations or a finding of misconduct.