At the very least three fired Justice Division officers concerned in January 6 prosecutions and Trump witch hunts are suing AG Bondi and the DOJ over their terminations.
Former January 6 prosecutor Michael Gordon, press aide Patty Hartman and DOJ ethics official Joseph Tirrell filed a lawsuit towards Trump’s DOJ on Thursday – they usually employed Deep State legal professionals Norm Eisen (key architect behind shade revolution and 180 lawsuits towards Trump), Abbe Lowell (Hunter Biden’s lawyer), Mark Zaid (lawyer who defended Ukraine impeachment leaker Eric Ciaramella) to symbolize them.
Earlier this month US Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi fired 20 DOJ officers tied to January 6 and Trump docs probe.
Prime DOJ ethics official Joseph Tirrell was fired together with the opposite swept up in Bondi’s terminations.
Tirrell launched a press release on his LinkedIn account:
Till Friday night, I used to be the senior ethics legal professional on the Division of Justice answerable for advising the Lawyer Basic and Deputy Lawyer Basic straight on federal worker ethics. I used to be additionally answerable for the day-to-day operations of the ethics program throughout the Division. I led a small, devoted crew of pros and coordinated the work of some 30 different full-time ethics officers, attorneys, paralegals and different specialists throughout the Division of Justice, guaranteeing that the 117,000 Division staff have been correctly suggested on and supported in find out how to comply with the Federal worker ethics guidelines.
My profession in public service has up to now spanned 1 / 4 of a century. I began as a United States Naval Officer, graduating from the ROTC program on the College of Michigan. After a 6-year army profession, I earned a regulation Diploma from the Detroit College of Legislation at Michigan State College. I began on the FBI in 2006 within the Presidential Administration Fellows Program. On the FBI, I labored in a wide range of places of work because of the PMF program and finally I went to work for the FBI’s Workplace of Integrity and Compliance. From there, I moved to the Departmental Ethics Workplace at Foremost Justice as Deputy Director. Lastly, in 2023, I used to be promoted to the Senior Government Service and the Place of Director of the Ethics Workplace.
My public service is just not over, and my profession as a Federal civil servant is just not completed. I took the oath at 18 as a Midshipman to “assist and defend the Structure of the USA.” I’ve taken that oath no less than 5 extra occasions since then. That oath didn’t include the caveat that I want solely assist the Structure when it’s straightforward or handy. I anticipate finding methods to proceed in my private calling of service to my nation. I inspired anybody who’s studying this to do the identical. I consider within the phrases of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – “the arc of the ethical universe is lengthy, however it bends towards justice.” I additionally consider that Edmund Burke is true and that “the one factor essential for the triumph of evil is for good folks to do nothing.”
I acquired a lot of calls and messages of assist in the previous couple of days. Thanks to everybody who has reached out. Be nicely.
The lawsuit alleges the plaintiffs have been fired with out trigger and with out advance written discover. Additionally they accuse the Trump DOJ of violating the Fifth Modification.
“Disregarding long-standing statutory and regulatory protections that govern how and when members of the civil service will be terminated, and the bounds thereof, Lawyer Basic Pamela Bondi individually knowledgeable Plaintiffs by one-page memoranda that they have been summarily faraway from federal service “[p]ursuant to Article II of the USA Structure and the legal guidelines of the USA.” No trigger, not to mention a correct merit-based one, or required due course of was offered to Plaintiffs with respect to their termination and elimination,” the plaintiffs argued in response to the criticism reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.
The plaintiffs demanded a jury trial.
JUST IN: Former Jan. 6 prosecutor Michael Gordon (prosecuted Riley Williams, Ray Epps, Bigo Barnett, amongst others) and press aide Patty Hartman have sued Pam Bondi over their terminations from DOJ.
Their lawyer: Abbe Lowellhttps://t.co/QgwlIfcnwX pic.twitter.com/aJqwPxWfKp
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 25, 2025
