The DOJ official argued that the firings are in line with the Trump administration’s “mission of ending the weaponization of government.”

Several federal prosecutors who worked with former special counsel Jack Smith on criminal investigations related to Trump were fired on Monday

The Trump administration dismissed over a dozen Justice Department lawyers involved in criminal cases against Donald Trump. Acting Attorney General James McHenry justified the firings, citing their roles in prosecuting Trump.

President Trump is pressing full steam ahead with an agenda Democrats worry has an increasingly autocratic bent. But right now, there’s not much they can do about it. News emerged late Monday

The Justice Department has fired more than a dozen lawyers, involved in criminal investigations into Donald Trump during his campaign for president, sources familiar with the matter confirmed to CNN,

Trump has remained remarkably faithful to his dark, Day One promises, and has attempted to govern as an authoritarian. The president’s early actions have not gone unchallenged. A bevy of lawsuits — including, as promised, by blue-state attorneys general — have already been filed, seeking to block, or at least blunt, the damage.

Senate Majority Leader Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., told a CNN reporter Monday he believes President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has a path to the 50 required votes for Senate confirmation.

Only 25% approved of renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America," while 70% disapproved; pardoning the Jan. 6 defendants has 62% disapproval; and ending birthright citizenship gets thumbs-down from 59% of respondents.

The federal prosecutors who worked on Donald Trump's criminal cases are now fired, while the accused felon is in the Oval Office.

House Democratic leaders are asking Justice Department officials to explain an “onslaught” of firings and reassignments of prosecutors during President Trump’s first week in office. The letter

The norm-shattering move is consistent with the President’s determination to purge the government of workers his administration perceives as disloyal.