Under the Trump administration’s stewardship, the department has been rocked by mass firings and an exodus of career staffers; an obliteration of the traditional distance between the agency and the White House; and several controversial cases brought against Trump’s adversaries. Congressional Democrats have been eager to explore these areas during their years in the minority.

Now in control, they aim to make the remaining two years of Trump’s term a reckoning, putting Blanche and his advisers on the defensive and holding them to account for what the lawmakers have framed as the complete perversion of the Justice Department’s mission during this administration.

Relevant committees are already building their investigative ranks and have been hiring from the large pool of former career prosecutors who were fired or departed from the Justice Department since the start of Trump’s second term.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/11/08/after-midterms-justice-dept-braces-barrage-congressional-scrutiny/?

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