Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday fired the Justice Department’s top ethics lawyer, as well as at least 20 other Justice Department staffers that were linked to former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into Trump. Joseph Tirrell had been at the Department for 16 years and oversaw the ethics staff. He said he was not given a reason for his removal. Tirrell was tasked with advising Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel and other top officials on conflicts of interest, disclosures and gifts.

Meanwhile, Reuters reports 69 lawyers, or roughly two-thirds of the Justice Department unit charged with defending Trump administration policies in court, have quit. Some lawyers told Reuters they could not go ahead with defending policies that were not “legally justifiable.”