1. United States
2. Ariz.
3. Letter

Since the Trump regime reentered office in 2025, it has reshaped the executive and every federal agency it touches in its own image, replacing nonpartisan civil servants with loyalists whose only expertise is in Trump's worldview and grievance agenda. Nowhere has this change been more stark than at the DOJ where knowledgeable and respected attorneys have been forced out, replaced with lawyers who have now routinely submitted arguments to the courts riddled with misrepresentations and bad faith assertions. In immigration cases, whistleblower cases, unauthorized renovations, and invented vandalism charges, Trump's DOJ attorneys have parroted implausible arguments that bare only a glancing resemblance to the facts before having to retract their words in the harsh scrutiny of our legal system. Now, Trump's DOJ is threatening Congress for using its Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 authority to provide oversight of the executive branch. Senator Richard Blumenthal's committee is investigating whether donor's for the president's $400million ballroom have been provided anything in return for their donations, and he has been informed that the DOJ will be investigating Congress's investigation as an effort to intimidate Americans over their "constitutionally protected associations" with the president. The DOJ cited two federal criminal statutes they imply Congress would be violating by conducting their necessary oversight of this regime's likely corrupt practices.  The implication is clear: if Congress wakes from its stupor and begins checking and balancing the absolute power this executive has claimed for itself, the DOJ intends to prosecute any who stand between Trump and his self-enrichment. Congress has let this President believe himself a King, and maybe more than that. The DOJ has enabled his every step beyond the laws that govern the rest of society. Both the executive and the DOJ must be brought back within the social contract where rules are for all of us.  Do your oversight. Legislate with enforcement mechanisms. And write your laws that clarify the executive's role is not absolute.