At least three fired Justice Department officials involved in January 6 prosecutions and Trump witch hunts are suing AG Bondi and the DOJ over their terminations.
Former January 6 prosecutor Michael Gordon, press aide Patty Hartman and DOJ ethics official Joseph Tirrell filed a lawsuit against Trump’s DOJ on Thursday – and they hired Deep State lawyers Norm Eisen (key architect behind color revolution and 180 lawsuits against Trump), Abbe Lowell (Hunter Biden’s lawyer), Mark Zaid (lawyer who defended Ukraine impeachment leaker Eric Ciaramella) to represent them.
Earlier this month US Attorney General Pam Bondi fired 20 DOJ officials tied to January 6 and Trump docs probe.
Top DOJ ethics official Joseph Tirrell was fired along with the other swept up in Bondi’s terminations.
Tirrell released a statement on his LinkedIn account:
Until Friday evening, I was the senior ethics attorney at the Department of Justice responsible for advising the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General directly on federal employee ethics. I was also responsible for the day-to-day operations of the ethics program across the Department. I led a small, dedicated team of professionals and coordinated the work of some 30 other full-time ethics officials, attorneys, paralegals and other specialists across the Department of Justice, ensuring that the 117,000 Department employees were properly advised on and supported in how to follow the Federal employee ethics rules.
My career in public service has so far spanned a quarter of a century. I started as a United States Naval Officer, graduating from the ROTC program at the University of Michigan. After a 6-year military career, I earned a law Degree from the Detroit School of Law at Michigan State University. I started at the FBI in 2006 in the Presidential Management Fellows Program. At the FBI, I worked in a variety of offices thanks to the PMF program and eventually I went to work for the FBI’s Office of Integrity and Compliance. From there, I moved to the Departmental Ethics Office at Main Justice as Deputy Director. Finally, in 2023, I was promoted to the Senior Executive Service and the Position of Director of the Ethics Office.
My public service is not over, and my career as a Federal civil servant is not finished. I took the oath at 18 as a Midshipman to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States.” I have taken that oath at least five more times since then. That oath did not come with the caveat that I need only support the Constitution when it is easy or convenient. I look forward to finding ways to continue in my personal calling of service to my country. I encouraged anyone who is reading this to do the same. I believe in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” I also believe that Edmund Burke is right and that “the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.”
I received a number of calls and messages of support in the last few days. Thank you to everyone who has reached out. Be well.
The lawsuit alleges the plaintiffs were fired without cause and without advance written notice. They also accuse the Trump DOJ of violating the Fifth Amendment.
“Disregarding long-standing statutory and regulatory protections that govern how and when members of the civil service can be terminated, and the limits thereof, Attorney General Pamela Bondi individually informed Plaintiffs by one-page memoranda that they were summarily removed from federal service “[p]ursuant to Article II of the United States Constitution and the laws of the United States.” No cause, let alone a proper merit-based one, or required due process was provided to Plaintiffs with respect to their termination and removal,” the plaintiffs argued according to the complaint reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.
The plaintiffs demanded a jury trial.
JUST IN: Former Jan. 6 prosecutor Michael Gordon (prosecuted Riley Williams, Ray Epps, Bigo Barnett, among others) and press aide Patty Hartman have sued Pam Bondi over their terminations from DOJ.
Their lawyer: Abbe Lowellhttps://t.co/QgwlIfcnwX pic.twitter.com/aJqwPxWfKp
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) July 25, 2025
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