Just Security: “The Trump Administration has been on a firing spree inside the Department of Justice. On January 20th, immediately after President Donald Trump took office, the administration fired four career officials in the Executive Office of Immigration Review (EIOR), including the Chief Immigration Judge and the EOIR’s acting Director.  James McHenry, the acting Attorney General at the time, then fired more than a dozen Justice Department lawyers who had assisted in bringing two criminal cases against Trump, concluding that “they ‘could not be trusted to faithfully implement the President’s agenda because of their significant role in prosecuting the President.” In addition to firing career attorneys outright, McHenry also reassigned veteran deputy assistant attorney generals who previously headed DOJ sections to work instead on the new administration’s investigation of “sanctuary cities.” Four days later, Emil Bove, the acting Deputy Attorney General, fired all six FBI Executive Assistant Directors and ordered the top federal prosecutors in each state to compile a list of all prosecutors and FBI agents who worked on the investigation of the Capitol riot, apparently with the aim of taking some sort of adverse employment action against them (the memo was titled “Terminations”).”