THE DOJ TRACKER: PART IV — JULY–OCTOBER 2025
Public Normalization and Feedback Loop
By midsummer, control is no longer contested.
The Department operates as a fully integrated extension of executive will.
Loyalty is policy. Obedience is law.
JULY — NORMALIZATION OF POLITICAL CONTROL
By July, political intervention is normalized as administrative routine.
The DOJ becomes an enforcement arm of executive will — with personnel, prosecutions, and messaging all brought under loyalty discipline.
July 1–9 — Expansion and Exposure
Ed Martin appoints a pardoned January 6 participant as advisor to the Weaponization Working Group.
(A: Retaliation | Severity: Strategic | Arc 1 — Ethics Offswitch → Target Pipeline)President Trump nullifies the TikTok ban and directs DOJ to tell tech companies they may violate law without consequence.
(D: Policy Directive | Severity: Peripheral)DOJ launches criminal probes into James Comey and John Brennan, both former intelligence leaders.
(C: Directed Prosecutions | Severity: Strategic | Arc 1)DOJ subpoenas clinics providing gender-affirming care; sues California over transgender athletics and even egg price regulation.
(D: Policy Directive | Severity: Strategic | Arc 2 — Civil Rights Inversion)
July 10–17 — Ethical Collapse and Judicial Capture
DOJ subjects senior FBI employees to polygraph loyalty tests, questioning political beliefs and media contacts.
(A: Retaliation | Severity: Strategic | Arc 4 — FBI Restructure & Purge)Attorney General Bondi fires roughly 20 prosecutors, including the DOJ’s top ethics officer.
(A + G | Severity: Systemic)DOJ fires 17 immigration judges, widens scrutiny of university diversity programs, and reduces oversight of police misconduct cases.
(B + D | Severity: Systemic)Senate advances Emil Bove’s nomination to the Third Circuit despite whistleblower warnings he ignored court orders.
(G: Ethics Erosion | Severity: Systemic | Arc 1 — Ethics Offswitch → Target Pipeline)DOJ’s Civil Rights Division requests leniency for the officer who killed Breonna Taylor, signaling full inversion of mission.
(D: Policy Directive | Severity: Strategic | Arc 2 — Civil Rights Inversion)
July 18–31 — Full Operational Capture
FBI directed to flag “any mention of Trump” in Epstein files; DOJ diverts hundreds of employees to review those materials.
(E: Information Control | Severity: Strategic | Arc 6 — Epstein File Leverage Loop)DOJ launches an Obama Administration Strike Force, investigating Obama-era officials and suing major Democratic-led cities.
(C: Directed Prosecutions | Severity: Systemic | Arc 1)DOJ drops case against Trump donor Andrew Wiederhorn and cuts $158M in gun-violence grants.
(D: Policy Directive | Severity: Strategic)DOJ releases new grant guidelines banning DEI-related work.
(D: Policy Directive | Severity: Systemic)Investigations into civil-rights abuses in prisons are halted.
(D: Policy Directive | Severity: Strategic)
Outcome: By the end of July, the DOJ’s independence is structurally inverted.
Investigations, grants, and prosecutions are conditioned explicitly on political alignment.
AUGUST — EXECUTIVE RULE BY DIRECTIVE
August formalizes command by memo.
Policy, prosecution, and policing powers are executed directly from the White House and the Attorney General’s office.
August 2–12 — Expansion of Command Control
Senate confirms Jeanine Pirro as U.S. Attorney for D.C.
DOJ opens new grand-jury investigations targeting Obama-era officials, publishes fresh “sanctuary jurisdiction” lists, and moves to sanction lawyers challenging deportations.
(C + D | Severity: Strategic)Footage surfaces of DOJ official Jared Wise encouraging violence during January 6; he remains on DOJ payroll.
(A: Retaliation | Severity: Strategic)DOJ sends formal antisemitism accusations to George Washington University, widely viewed as political theater.
(D: Policy Directive | Severity: Procedural)
August 14–21 — Federal–Local Takeover Operations
Bondi overrides local D.C. policing policy, installs a DEA administrator as “emergency commissioner.”
(D: Policy Directive | Severity: Systemic)Trump appoints Andrew Bailey as FBI co–deputy director.
(B: Structural Reorganization | Severity: Systemic)DOJ deploys FBI, DEA, and ATF to patrol Washington, D.C., asserting federal control of local law enforcement.
(D: Policy Directive | Severity: Systemic)FBI reduces agent recruitment standards; college degree no longer required.
(B: Structural Reorganization | Severity: Strategic)
August 25–29 — Expansion of Investigations and Selective Enforcement
DOJ continues DEI-related purges, hiring new politically aligned attorneys.
(A: Retaliation | Severity: Strategic)DOJ sues California over redistricting while praising Texas for similar plans.
(C: Directed Prosecutions | Severity: Strategic)DOJ finalizes rule allowing non-lawyers to serve as immigration judges.
(B: Structural Reorganization | Severity: Systemic | Arc 3 — Immigration Court Capture)DOJ dismisses charges against clients of Attorney General Bondi’s brother.
(G: Ethics Erosion | Severity: Strategic)
Outcome: August codifies total integration of DOJ operations under political loyalty.
Command now flows vertically from the White House to field-level prosecutors.
SEPTEMBER — REPRESSION AND REVERSE ENFORCEMENT
The DOJ enters its retaliatory governance phase.
Enforcement exists primarily as punishment or protection for political allies.
September 2–12 — Judicial Bypass and Political Policing
Military lawyers are assigned as immigration judges to replace those fired.
(B: Structural Reorganization | Severity: Systemic | Arc 3)DOJ sues Illinois, Boston, Maine, and Oregon for policies favorable to immigrants or voting access.
(C: Directed Prosecutions | Severity: Strategic)DOJ opens criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, following Trump’s pressure campaign on the Fed.
(C: Directed Prosecutions | Severity: Strategic)DOJ internally discusses banning transgender gun ownership and deleting studies on right-wing extremism.
(D: Policy Directive | Severity: Strategic | Arc 2)
September 16–23 — Purge and Obedience Testing
DOJ sues additional states for access to election data and begins politically directed hiring in Civil Rights Division.
(B + D | Severity: Systemic | Arc 2)U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert resigns after refusing to charge Trump’s political opponents.
(A: Retaliation | Severity: Strategic)DOJ closes a bribery investigation into Trump’s border czar.
(C: Directed Prosecutions | Severity: Strategic)DOJ indicts James Comey; Justice Connection calls it “a clearer example of presidential control over prosecution.”
(C: Directed Prosecutions | Severity: Systemic)
September 24–30 — Institutional Exhaustion
DOJ subpoenas Fani Willis’s travel records, fires FBI agents who knelt during racial-justice protests, and sues school districts over DEI programs.
(A + C + D | Severity: Strategic)Federal judge rules that a Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney is serving illegitimately — an isolated act of judicial resistance.
(G: Ethics Erosion | Severity: Strategic)
Outcome: By the end of September, judicial independence is nearly extinguished.
DOJ functions as an enforcement hub for executive retribution and selective impunity.
OCTOBER — SYSTEMIC DESTRUCTION AND PUBLIC BLAME-SHIFTING
October completes the arc: destruction framed as reform.
The Department becomes a hollow administrative shell.
October 1–4 — Closure and Narrative Control
DOJ closes Access to Justice, Community Relations Service, and OCDETF, dispersing the Tax Division across units.
(B: Structural Reorganization | Severity: Systemic | Arc 7 — Budget Starvation & Program Collapse)DOJ’s website blames Democrats for the government shutdown; internal furlough messages are scripted to repeat the narrative.
(E: Information Control | Severity: Strategic | Arc 8 — Press & Information Control)Senior prosecutors Maya Song and Michael Ben’Ary fired after the Comey indictment; FBI trainee dismissed for displaying a pride flag.
(A: Retaliation | Severity: Strategic)Apple removes apps tracking ICE movements following DOJ demand.
(E: Information Control | Severity: Procedural)OMB pressures furloughed DOJ employees to publicly blame Democrats.
(E: Information Control | Severity: Strategic)
Outcome: October closes the loop.
Structural independence, operational integrity, and public transparency are extinguished.
The Department now functions primarily as an instrument of executive messaging — projecting legitimacy over coercion.
Next:
Part V — The Eight Arcs
Ethics Offswitch. Civil Rights Inversion. Immigration Court Capture. FBI Restructure. Corporate Immunity. Epstein Leverage. Budget Starvation. Press Control.