Jason Reding Quiñones joins what is expected to be a succession of departures at the Justice Department after the midterm elections, including that of the leader of the national security division.
Investigators, using subpoenas and other law enforcement powers, are accelerating an inquiry that takes the Trump administration into the inner workings of the court.
The move came after conflicts with Justice Department leaders, including disagreements over legal strategy in the midterm elections, people familiar with the matter said.
Around 236 people have been charged with voting fraud-related offenses by the Trump administration, despite its unsubstantiated claims that fraud is widespread.
Ballots in Los Angeles County in November 2024. The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a federal effort to set aside midterm ballots this year from 20,000 people in California who the Trump administration suspects are “likely noncitizens.”
The refusal of top department officials to acknowledge Donald J. Trump’s loss that year is the engine driving an intensifying effort to intercede in state administration of elections.
The court’s ruling came just hours after administration lawyers asked the justices to immediately order California to set aside 20,000 mail-in ballots.
Voters dropping their ballots off in San Francisco last month. The Trump administration’s legal challenge to 20,000 California ballots is part of a broader effort to argue that the elections could be marred by illegal votes by noncitizens.
The Trump administration’s campaign to identify and charge immigrants in connection with voting violations has led to fears of being jailed, or deported.
The Trump administration has intensified pressure on states to identify noncitizens who are voting. Election officials say the government’s system is flawed.
The magistrate judge, Zia M. Faruqui, said the case was a rushed, political prosecution ordered by the White House intended to affect the midterm elections.
At a Halloween event in Florida, President Trump told reporters that Alina Habba Mildon’s lucrative work for someone seeking a pardon was “not acceptable.”
None of the firms that struck deals to avoid crippling executive orders are publicly involved in the major legal efforts to check the Trump administration’s attempts to meddle in the midterm elections, a review by The New York Times shows.
Democrats and former officials have accused the department of pursuing a political goal in the guise of a legal one: to publicize a scheme, sordid but not illegal under state law, damaging to Democrats.
At a hearing in federal court, prosecutors defended an unusual, 11th-hour criminal case accusing the former F.B.I. director of leaking classified information a decade ago.
Judge Ana C. Reyes said an outside investigator would help determine whether parks officials or Justice Department lawyers withheld plans for Washington’s East Potomac Park.
A federal judge on Friday called for an investigation into whether the Trump administration concealed its plans to renovate a public golf course at East Potomac Park.
Federal prosecutors have targeted President Trump’s political opponents and sued states over election administration just before the midterms. Devlin Barrett, a reporter for The New York Times, explains how this activity is compared with the Justice Department’s usual election-year behavior.
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