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DDF and a team of outside legal counsel are actively reviewing the Department of Justice’s latest release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein. As has been widely reported, the materials produced are incomplete and do not comply with the requirements Congress set forth in the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Following is a statement by Amb. (ret) Norm Eisen, executive chair of Democracy Defenders Fund, on the Department of Justice’s release of files relating to the Epstein investigation, as required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Following is a statement by Amb. (ret.) Norm Eisen, executive chair of Democracy Defenders Fund, in response to the federal jury verdict convicting Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan of felony obstruction while acquitting her on a misdemeanor charge.

Following is a statement by Virginia Canter, counsel and director for ethics and anticorruption at Democracy Defenders Fund, regarding the announcement that Caroline Pham, Acting Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, accepted post-government employment with the cryptocurrency payment platform MoonPay.

A federal judge has indicated she will order the Trump-Vance administration to nullify the terminations of federal employees at four federal agencies, which were implemented in clear violation of the bipartisan law that ended the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

DDF filed two formal complaints with federal oversight authorities, warning that recent actions by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) threaten the agency’s statutory role as a nonpartisan guardian of election integrity and risk undermining public confidence in the federal election system.

A bipartisan group of three former WH ethics chiefs today filed a complaint urging the DOJ's OPR to investigate whether the OLC manipulated the law in a secret legal memo that has been used to justify U.S. military strikes that killed civilians on boats from Venezuela in international waters.

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear an appeal in a case challenging President Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order that seeks to deny U.S. citizenship to many babies born in the United States.

DDF filed a complaint with HHS OIG urging an investigation into whether BlinkRx, linked to Donald Trump Jr., got nonpublic information giving it an unfair edge in bidding to run the Trump admin’s new TrumpRx platform.

Following is a statement by Amb. Norm Eisen (ret.), executive chair of Democracy Defenders Fund, regarding a federal grand jury’s refusal to indict Attorney General Letitia James.

The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA) on Wednesday filed a supplemental complaint and an emergency request for a temporary restraining order to stop the Trump administration from carrying out mass terminations of federal workers in clear violation of legislation passed by Congress that ended the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

DDF has expanded its lawsuit against the Trump administration’s Department of Justice over the refusal to release the Trump-Epstein files.

Following is a joint statement from from Abbe David Lowell, Gerry Krovatin, and Amb. Norm Eisen (ret.), executive chair of Democracy Defenders Fund, regarding today’s 3rd Circuit decision that Alina Habba’s appointment to U.S. Attorney of New Jersey was unlawful.

Following is a statement by Amb. Norm Eisen (ret.), executive chair of Democracy Defenders Fund, regarding today’s ruling by a federal court that Lindsey Halligan’s appointment to U.S. Attorney was unlawful.

Following is a statement by Amb. (ret) Norm Eisen, exec chair of DDF, regarding the vote by the U.S. House of Representatives to advance a measure that would force the Trump administration to release the full Trump-Epstein files.

A new amicus brief filed in Donald J. Trump v. Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, et al. asks the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Congress’s authority to create independent federal agencies whose leaders cannot be fired by the president at will or without cause.

A bipartisan coalition of former state attorneys general filed an amicus brief today urging a federal court to dismiss the criminal prosecution of New York Attorney General Letitia James

DDF filed a complaint with the OSC, requesting an investigation into Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins for possible violations of the Hatch Act during an October 31 press conference on Capitol Hill concerning the Administration’s decision not to pay SNAP benefits.

DDF today filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Inspector General requesting an investigation into the DOJ’s potential $230 million settlement with President Trump.

In a new letter sent to the DOJ today, the DDF condemns the agency for hiding the Epstein files despite a series of FOIA requests and a lawsuit the organization has filed seeking their public release.

Following are statements from Amb. Norm Eisen (ret.), executive chair of DDF, and Roman Palomares, national president of LULAC, and Juan Proaño, executive director of LULAC, regarding today’s ruling in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Executive Office of the President.

Democracy Defenders Fund and Campaign Legal Center are urging an investigation into Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for possible conflicts of interest tied to his farmland holdings and trade policy decisions.

A federal court has extended its order barring the Trump administration from firing federal workers because of the government shutdown as litigation filed by labor unions proceeds.

A bipartisan group of former federal judges and United States Attorneys today filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia to dismiss the Trump administration’s indictment of former FBI Director James B. Comey, Jr.

Democracy Defenders Fund urged Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to immediately use the USDA’s $5 billion contingency fund to prevent unlawful lapses in SNAP benefits during the government shutdown and protect the 42 million Americans who rely on the program.