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Resignations during the second Trump administration

Sean Murphy, DOJ, AUSA
2025-03-14

Sean Murphy (6 years at DOJ) was an AUSA.

Per an NPR report, he resigned in protest of the direction the DOJ was going.

Olivia Horton, DOJ, Trial Attorney
2025-03-07

Olivia Horton (6 months at DOJ) represented the US government in Doe v OPM.

Per a court filing in that case, she resigned from the Department of Justice on March 7, 2025.

Per an April 6, 2025 court filing in the Abrego Garcia case, she appears to now be working for Quinn Emanuel.

Michelle King, acting commissioner of Social Security Administration
2025-02-19

Ruth Ann Crystal
Social Security Commissioner Michelle King resigned over the weekend — after more than 30 years of service — after King refused to provide DOGE staffers access to people's sensitive social security information buff.ly/4i06kmz
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Social Security head steps down over DOGE access of recipient information, AP sources say
The Social Security Administration’s acting commissioner has stepped down from her role at the agency over Department of Government Efficiency requests to access Social Security recipient information.

Denise Cheung, DOJ, head of criminal division, USDC
2025-02-18

It seems likely that the resignation was related to Climate United Fund v Citibank.

Harry Litman
Fallout from nomination of the unqualified, election denier, Jan 6 defendants fund raising ed martin jr. Silent protest that speaks volumes. DOJ is getting strangled from within. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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Head of DOJ’s criminal division in Washington abruptly resigns
Denise Cheung’s departure comes as Trump seeks to elevate the office’s temporary leader, interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, to the post permanently.

Jenn Clarke, DOJ, Deputy Chief, Public Integrity Section
2025-02-14

Jenn Clarke (9 years at DOJ), Deputy Chief in the Public Integrity Section, resigned rather than go along with the government's scheme in US v Adams.

Kevin Driscoll, DOJ
2025-02-14

Kevin Driscoll resigned rather than go along with the government's scheme in US v Adams.

John Keller, DOJ, acting Chief, Public Integrity Section
2025-02-14

John Keller (14 years at DOJ), acting Chief of the Public Integrity Section, resigned rather than go along with the government's scheme in US v Adams.

Rob Heberle, DOJ, Director, Public Integrity Section
2025-02-14

Rob Heberle (13 years at DOJ), Director in the Public Integrity Section, resigned rather than go along with the government's scheme in US v Adams.

Marco Palmiere, DOJ, Deputy Chief, Criminal Division
2025-02-14

Marco Palmieri (12 years at DOJ), Deputy Chief in the Criminal Division, resigned rather than go along with the government's scheme in US v Adams.

Hagan Scotten, DOJ, AUSA SDNY
2025-02-14

A former clerk for Roberts and Kavanaugh, he resigned as part of the Eric Adams scheme.

southpaw
AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.
BY EMAIL Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH) Mr. Bove, I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S. Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General. In short, the first justification for the motion-that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse. No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives. There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know much i i red oril, in this ily. wing the perset arthro he Reside is ving to, give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me. Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. Yours truly, Hagan Scotten Assistant United States Att…

Danielle Sassoon, DOJ, SDNY DA
2025-02-14

A former Scalia clerk, she resigned as part of the Eric Adams scheme.

Eduardo Sanchez
(Free article) 1/ This is the resignation letter SDNY US District Attorney Danielle Sassoon resignation letter sent to her boss. The annotations by the NY Times will help you to quickly grasp, in a couple of minutes, the gist of the 8-page resignation letter. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Read Danielle Sassoon’s Letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Annotated (Gift Article)
Danielle R. Sassoon, who resigned Thursday as Manhattan’s U.S. attorney, writes to Attorney General Pam Bondi to explain her refusal to drop a corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York.