The Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security hold some of the most formidable powers of the federal government: the power to charge, to imprison, to detain, and to deport. For decades, unwritten norms kept those powers away from partisan politics.
Justice on Command examines what has happened to those norms since January 2025. At the Justice Department: dropped cases against allies, prosecutions of the president's adversaries, the purge of thousands of career lawyers, the dismantling of anti-corruption units, pardons that benefited donors and allies, the rise of the president's own defense lawyer to attorney general, and a lawsuit in which the president sued his own government. At Homeland Security: the largest immigration enforcement budget in history, operations that ended in the deaths of American citizens, contracts awarded without planning, and a bribery investigation that was abruptly closed.
Drawing on court records, inspector general findings, and government audits, the book separates what has been established from what officials continue to deny. Includes a document guide and full source notes.
Book 4 of Putting America Last: A World Without Friends.