Department of Justice

Justin Monroe detailed from OPM to FBI

An unidentified former SpaceX employee [later confirmed to be Justin Monroe] is reported to be working as an advisor to the Director of the FBI

Eugene Vindman, a US Representative and former whistleblower against Trump, reports being repeatedly contacted by Clayton Cromer who identifies himself as an Executive Assistant US Attorney.

Several unidentified DOGE representatives are reportedly spotted working at DOJ

Attorney General Pam Bondi announces she is forming a “JUST DOGE” team to look at restructuring the agency and its subsidiaries.

Tarak Makecha detailed from OPM to FBI

Clayton Cromer starts at DOJ.

DOGE member Christopher Stanley is listed as a Senior Advisor in the Deputy Attorney General’s Office and he reportedly holds a security clearance.

Christopher Stanley detailed from OPM to DOJ

Tarak Makecha escalates his demands at 6:25pm that the Acacia contracts must be terminated immediately despite it being after business hours and there not being an actual emergency.

Tarak Makecha finds a DOJ Contracting Officer after hours at 7:25pm to send the termination despite agency concerns that it violates the terms of a court order to not provide 3 days notice for termination.

Tarak Makecha, a DOGE representative at DOJ is forwarded a list at 6pm of DOJ contracts to terminate for the Acacia Center, a nonprofit in DOGE’s crosshairs that day and a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the DOJ. He coordinates with Josh Gruenbaum at the GSA, who is leading a multi-agency effort to eliminate grants.

Luke Farritor uses his admin access to lock out all government officials at multiple agencies from using grants.gov to issue new grants. Instead, all grants must now be sent to a new email address which will be reviewed by DOGE staffers before grants can be posted.

Jon Koval and Payton Rehling detailed from SSA to DOJ

Adam Hoffman detailed from DOGE to DOJ

Marko Elez, Adam Hoffman, Jon Koval, and Payton Rehling are granted basic access to ECAS at DOJ.

In a podcast appearance, Antonio Gracias reported that the Department of Justice had requested for DOGE to find “10-20 cases” of alleged noncitizen voting in every state.

A glimpse of Luke Farritor’s visible calendar in a Fox News DOGE profile includes a meeting with a representative from the Department of Justice and another from the FBI.

In an email to agency partners, the operators of grants.gov declare that the revised mechanism added in April that routed all Notices of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) through a DOGE email address has been reversed. Instead, agencies are to return to using the tool like that did previously. This doesn’t necessarily mean that DOGE or political appointees will not be reviewing grants, but they have no longer locked other users out of the system.

DOGE staff are reportedly detailed to work with the ATF General Counsel on revising or eliminating over 50 regulations by July 4th. This would likely make it easier to purchase firearms. They miss this deadline.

Clayton Cromer leaves role at DOJ (exits govt. service)

Tarak Makecha ends detailed position as Senior Advisor at FBI (exits govt. service)

At least 19 states confirm that the Department of Justice has requested their voter registration lists and records from the 2024 and 2020 elections. At least seven states have reported that DOJ proposed an information-sharing agreement related to election fraud. States have not traditionally shared such information in the past, and there are concerns that this will be used in a fishing expedition for crimes or that the data will not be properly protected. This effort echoes an assertion in May by Antion Gracias that DOJ had asked DOGE to find “10-20 cases of alleged noncitizen voting in every state.”

The Department of Justice files a lawsuit against Maine and Oregon for refusing to comply with EO 14248, an executive order that demanded that states must share unredacted voter registration lists with the federal government. Multiple states have refused to comply, citing both the questionable legality of the order as well as concerns about privacy. This data will also likely be imported into a DOGE project to look for voting fraud that could exaggerate the problem and cast doubts on the integrity of US elections

The DOJ files a lawsuit against five more states – Pennsylvania, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, and New Hampshire – that refused to turn over full and unredacted voter registration information for the past two elections to the DOJ. This order was mandated in EO 14248, but it’s unclear that the President has any constitutional authority to demand such cooperation from the states. This data likely will be aggregated into a DOGE-created system to look in voter registration data for fraud, raising concerns that erroneous claims will be used to undermine elections.

Several nonprofit organizations led by the League of Women Voters filed a lawsuit against the DOGE-led project to add Social Security data and expand the usage of the SAVE database for invalidating voter registrations. The suit alleges that this process violated the Privacy Act but also is an unconstitutional abridgement of state ownership for elections.

The DOJ files a lawsuit against six more states – Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington – for refusing to provide sweeping voting data to the administration, including full names, residential addresses, birth dates, driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of Social Security numbers.