President Donald J. Trump isn’t wasting any time. The broom is out, the gloves are off, and the Department of Justice—the very agency that turned itself into a weapon against political dissent—is getting a long-overdue housecleaning.
Two entrenched career prosecutors, one in Los Angeles and another in Memphis, were abruptly removed this week. And they weren’t alone. Over 50 U.S. attorneys and their deputies have also been shown the door. This is not chaos—it’s clarity. It’s accountability. It’s what voters asked for.
Of course, legacy media and career bureaucrats are already wringing their hands, calling this “alarming.” What they’re really upset about is that someone’s finally pulling the plug on their game. For years, under Biden and even before that, the DOJ operated more like a political enforcement arm than a department of justice.
Pro-life advocates were raided in front of their children. January 6 defendants were treated like terrorists. And Trump himself? Subjected to endless, baseless “investigations” cooked up by the very people who are now wondering why their government email accounts stopped working.
Trump admin fires 50 prosecutors and deputies in DOJ overhaul https://t.co/zoPQouUDLX
— Axios (@axios) March 31, 2025
Let’s be honest. Every incoming president makes changes to the DOJ’s leadership. This isn’t new—it’s protocol. Clinton did it. Obama did it. The only difference is that Trump is willing to dig deeper and faster because he knows exactly where the rot lives this time. And he’s not playing by the D.C. rules that say you should “go slow” or “avoid appearances.” Those rules were written to protect the insiders.
The firing of assistant U.S. attorneys—a rarity, no doubt—isn’t an abuse of power. It’s a correction of power. Trump isn’t just swapping out figureheads. He’s digging into the machinery. The Biden years left behind a DOJ that behaved less like a legal body and more like a political vendetta factory. Trump’s message now? That era is over.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that the White House is coordinating closely with DOJ leadership to implement these removals, and that more are likely. This is what decisive leadership looks like. No more pretending. No more looking the other way while taxpayer-funded lawyers wage ideological wars.
And make no mistake—this purge isn’t about revenge. It’s about restoring trust in the law. If the DOJ is to mean anything again, it has to be returned to its original purpose: enforcing the law fairly, not selectively. Trump knows this. The American people know this. And now, finally, the bureaucrats are learning it the hard way.
