06/25/2025

DOJ Whistleblower Details Senior Officials' Efforts to Stonewall Judges, Ignore Decision

The attorney was fired after standing up to political remarks

An ousted Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney told Congress that senior department officials, including a former acting deputy attorney general, discussed defying federal court orders and withholding information from judges to advance the Trump administration's immigration priorities, according to a whistleblower complaint filed Tuesday.

The attorney, Erez Reuveni, a veteran of over 14 years at the department who had been praised and promoted for his service, was put on leave and then fired earlier this year after his attorneys say he pushed back against three different DOJ attempts to "defy" immigration-related court orders "through lack of candor, deliberate delay and disinformation."

While Reuveni has not spoken publicly about his departure, a whistleblower report sent to senior congressional leadership by his attorneys details how he says he was "threatened, fired, and publicly disparaged" in his final weeks in the department after he questioned instructions from top DOJ officials to ignore court orders and misrepresent facts in court in three separate, high-profile standoffs between the department and federal judges over immigration cases. Among those officials was the No. 3 Justice Department official, Emil Bove.

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