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Two top DOJ officials resign: Jason Reding Quiñones and John Eisenberg

newsNov 6, 2026296,559

Jason A. Reding Quiñones, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida who had been overseeing a sweeping "grand conspiracy" investigation into several of former President Trump’s political opponents, resigned Friday, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced. John Eisenberg, Assistant Attorney General and head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, also resigned the same week, marking two high-profile departures following Republicans’ midterm losses. News reports describe Quiñones as the prosecutor leading the Miami office’s politically charged probe; some coverage says his departure undermines that investigation’s momentum. Several posts and reports note that Eisenberg previously edited the transcript of President Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and placed it in a code-word classified system, a matter that figured in Trump’s first impeachment. Advocacy group Justice Connection criticized Quiñones’s probe as misguided, calling it a "Don Quixote"-like effort. The two resignations follow other recent senior departures at the Justice Department and increase the number of Senate-confirmed officials who have left since the midterms, raising immediate questions about who will lead the investigations and how quickly successors can be confirmed.

MeidasTouch
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🚨 ANOTHER RESIGNATION! John Eisenberg, the assistant attorney general overseeing the Justice Department’s National Security Division, has now resigned as well.

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Democracy Docket
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BREAKING: Jason Reding Quiñones, a federal prosecutor leading a probe into top Democrats and Trump foes the president alleged conspired to sabotage his first term, has resigned. The departure likely signals the end of the politically-charged investigation. https://demdock.com/4iLjFBo

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