Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, during an appearance before the Senate appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday.

On Pam Bondi’s first day as attorney general in February 2025, she signed a directive that appeared to prohibit the kind of fund the Trump administration established this week.

Dan Bongino, the F.B.I. deputy director, at the Capitol last month.

Jack Posobiec and several other conservative influencers were offered a preview of the Epstein files in February, hours before they were released publicly by Attorney General Pam Bondi.

Justice Department veterans see an overarching pattern in the dismissals — a quickening effort by the Trump administration to ignore and eventually demolish longstanding civil service legal precedents meant to keep politics out of law enforcement work.

Justice Neil Gorsuch with former Justice Stephen Breyer at a memorial event for Antonin Scalia last year during a Federalist Society convention in Washington.