John Eisenberg, the head of the National Security Division at the Department of Justice, is stepping down from his post, becoming the third senior DOJ official to resign since the midterm elections.
Shortly after Fox News learned of Eisenberg’s resignation, Attorney General Todd Blanche announced it on social media.
“He has served with distinction, strengthening our nation’s ability to address threats, both foreign and domestic,” Blanche said. “Under his leadership, the Division advanced President Trump’s mission to make America safe by prosecuting terrorists and working with our law enforcement partners to disrupt planned attacks on the American people.”
This was Eisenberg’s second stint serving under President Donald Trump. In Trump’s first term, Eisenberg was an assistant and deputy counsel to the president, as well as a legal advisor to the National Security Council, which advises presidents on foreign policy matters.
Less than an hour before Eisenberg’s departure was made public, Blanche announced the resignation of Jason Reding Quiñones, the U.S. Attorney for Florida’s Southern District.
Quiñones was perhaps best known for securing an indictment against Raúl Castro, the former president of Cuba who took over after his brother Fidel Castro’s nearly 50-year reign.
Raúl Castro, now 95, was indicted for his alleged role in the 1996 shoot-down of two unarmed civilian aircraft operated by Brothers to the Rescue, a Miami-based humanitarian group that searched the Florida Straits for Cuban migrants in distress. The four U.S. nationals aboard the two planes were killed.
“We are grateful for Jason’s leadership in combatting violent crime, drug trafficking, sex trafficking, and transnational crime,” Blanche said. “Jason has served the Department multiple times over his distinguished career, and we thank him for his service to this country.”
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The departure of Eisenberg and Quiñones came just a day after Harmeet Dhillon, who headed up the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, announced she’d be leaving as well.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Dhillon said she attempted to resign three weeks ago but was asked by White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles to stay until after the midterms.
Dhillon moved to Washington following the deaths of her husband and father to “serve my country,” but after roughly two years in the administration, she said it was time for her to leave.
Dhillon shifted her office’s priorities toward issues including DEI and race-conscious policies, religious discrimination, transgender participation in women’s sports, Second Amendment rights and election integrity.
In the lead-up to the midterms, Dhillon defended the Trump administration’s investigation into noncitizen voters. She was also in charge of the DOJ’s effort to send more than 1,000 election monitors to all 50 states.
