Cuts to Department of Justice's Public Integrity Section

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's March 25, 2025 internal "Soliciting Feedback For Agency Reorganization Plan and RIF" memorandum (released by House Judiciary Committee Democrats on March 30, 2025) proposed reassigning the bulk of Public Integrity Section attorneys to U.S. Attorneys' offices, retaining only "a core team of supervisory attorneys." Earlier reporting by NBC News described the resulting reductions in size and scale, noting that existing cases would be reassigned. The Public Integrity Section was created in 1976, post-Watergate, to centralize the enforcement of public corruption in federal, state and local government by elected and appointed officials and judges; the unit also supervised investigations and prosecutions of election-related crimes such as voter fraud and campaign finance.