Attorney General Pam Bondi has begun cleaning house at the Department of Justice, removing prosecutors and staff involved in investigations of President Trump. A.R. Hoffman reports in The New York Sun:
The firing by Attorney General Bondi of the senior ethics attorney at the Department of Justice, Joseph Tirrell, underscores how she is reshaping the DOJ in President Trump’s second term.
Mr. Tirrell, a Navy veteran who was appointed to the top ethics job in 2023, disclosed that he had been fired in a LinkedIn post. Ms. Bondi’s letter, which he posts, informs him that his “employment with the Department of Justice is hereby terminated” and that he is “removed from federal service effective immediately.” His first name is misspelled in the letter.
The fired lawyer, who has spent some 20 years at the DOJ, vows, “My public service is not over, and my career as a Federal civil servant is not finished.” Ms. Bondi’s letter of termination cites “Article II of the Constitution and the laws of the United States,” but does not offer a more granular explanation for why Mr. Tirrell is no longer employed at Main Justice. Mr. Tirrell has the right to appeal his termination.
Mr. Tirrell’s firing comes days after Ms. Bondi gave pink slips to some 20 employees at the DOJ who were seconded to the two criminal investigations of Mr. Trump spearheaded by Special Counsel Jack Smith. That group included both prosecutors and support staff. The DOJ’s Ethics Office that Mr. Tirrell headed advises federal employees of the rules governing financial disclosures, conflicts of interest, and recusal.
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