Just Security: “What follows is a timeline of actions that highlight the alarming level of politicization and weaponization of the Department of Justice under the second Trump administration. Politicization includes the misuse of the Department’s powers for political purposes rather than the independent and impartial enforcement of the laws. Weaponization includes a deliberate and systematic misuse of the Department’s powers for political or personal purposes and in defiance of the rule of law. The chronological list below includes the most clear-cut cases that raise such concerns – examples include potential as well as actual abuses of the power of the Justice Department. The compilation does not include more ambiguous examples – for instance, when information on internal decision-making is lacking – such as the Justice Department’s decision to drop cases against SpaceX (civil lawsuit), Congressman Andy Ogles (R-Tennessee) (criminal investigation), and former Congressman Jeff Fortenberry (R-Nebraska) (criminal prosecution)…”