Two more senior Justice Department officials are heading for the exits. John Eisenberg, the head of the department's National Security Division, and Jason Reding Quiñones, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida in Miami, are both resigning, Fox News Politics reported Wednesday — one day after Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced her own departure from the Civil Rights Division.
POLITICO confirmed the pair of resignations roughly an hour before Fox's report, identifying Eisenberg as assistant attorney general for national security and Quiñones as the top federal prosecutor in Miami. Neither outlet reported a reason for the exits, and the Justice Department has not said publicly whether the departures are connected to Dhillon's.
The Dhillon resignation was announced by Attorney General Todd Blanche in a social media post, according to ABC News. "Today, I accepted the resignation of Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who led the Civil Rights Division with conviction the past 18 months," Blanche said. "She has defended the civil liberties of every American and enforced the law without fear or favor. The Department is grateful for her dedicated public service, and we wish her every success in her future endeavors."
ABC News reported that Dhillon's exit was long expected, with sources saying President Trump had privately expressed frustrations over a string of court losses for the division under her leadership. In her own post on X, Dhillon thanked Trump and said her office "ushered in the downfall of illegal DEI, we fought to protect women and girls' sports, and so much more."
Her tenure was contentious. ABC News reported that Dhillon reshaped the division's priorities around Trump's agenda — rolling back consent agreements with police departments, opening probes targeting elite universities, and pursuing lawsuits against states over voter roll data, a run of cases the network described as an unbroken string of defeats. The division also saw an exodus of career attorneys; ABC News, citing staffing numbers provided to Congress, reported an estimated 75% had departed as of earlier this year.
Kristen Clarke, NAACP general counsel and a former assistant attorney general for civil rights in the Biden administration, said in a statement after the announcement that Dhillon had "abdicated her responsibility to enforce our nation's federal civil rights laws and destroyed the crown jewel of the Justice Department."
The Gateway Pundit's account on X framed the new resignations differently, posting: "BREAKING: Two More DOJ Officials Abruptly Resign – Including Top Prosecutor Spearheading Russiagate Case Against John Brennan." The post did not specify which of the two departing officials it was referring to, and neither Fox News Politics nor POLITICO described either resignation as tied to a Russiagate prosecution.
Eisenberg's National Security Division sits at the center of the department's most sensitive work — counterterrorism, espionage, export controls and foreign-agent enforcement — and its leadership post is Senate-confirmed. Quiñones ran one of the most high-profile U.S. Attorney's offices in the country, with jurisdiction over federal cases in South Florida ranging from immigration and narcotics to public corruption.
It is not yet known who will lead either office on an acting basis, or whether the White House has replacements in mind. The resignations land as the administration moves into its second year with a narrowed window for confirmation fights, and as the department's Civil Rights Division — now leaderless — faces questions about which of its pending cases survive the transition.
For Americans outside Washington, the practical stakes are straightforward: the National Security Division signs off on some of the most aggressive surveillance and prosecution tools the federal government wields, and the Miami office handles a heavy share of the country's immigration and cartel cases. A leadership vacuum in either place slows decisions that reach real people — defendants, agents and, in the Southern District's case, communities on the front line of the border fight.
Our Take
Three exits in three days at the top of the Justice Department is not routine housekeeping, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling something. The Deep State bureaucracy did not vanish on January 20, 2025 — it burrowed in, and the departures of officials who were supposed to be executing the America First agenda ought to prompt a simple question from patriots: who is actually running these divisions, and whose priorities are they pursuing?
Dhillon fought publicly — DEI, women's sports, the universities — and took the arrows that come with it. Whether her departure was a resignation or a push is a question the administration should answer plainly, because the pattern matters more than any single exit. When the National Security Division and the Southern District of Florida change hands in the same week, the American people deserve to know whether the next appointees will enforce the law as written or manage it as the permanent class prefers.
The president was elected to drain the swamp, not to rent it out. Keep your eyes on who walks in those doors next — that will tell you more than any press release ever could.
