Top lawyer in DOJ’s National Security Division abruptly resigns

November 6, 2026 / 12:51 PM EST / CBS News

John Eisenberg, the Justice Department's National Security Division assistant attorney general, abruptly resigned on Friday, the department said.

Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Eisenberg's departure on X, thanking him for "strengthening our nation's ability to address threats, both foreign and domestic."

Eisenberg is the second assistant attorney general this week to step down, just two days after Democrats swept the midterm elections and won back control of the House of Representatives and Senate.

On Thursday, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon also tendered her resignation, though she had already told the White House before the election that she intended to step down.

Another Trump-appointee at the Justice Department, U.S. Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones of the Southern District of Florida, also resigned on Friday.

Eisenberg, unlike Dhillon, maintained a relatively low profile during his tenure at the National Security Division, which over the last year has lost a large number of its career staff.

The division was thrust into the uncomfortable role late last year of overseeing the redactions of millions of pages of investigative files related to accused sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a monumental task that was…

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