Key facts
- John Eisenberg headed the DOJ national security division before resigning on November 6.
- Jason Reding Quiñones was US attorney for the Southern District of Florida.
- Quiñones pursued probes into past criminal investigations of Trump, dubbed a grand conspiracy.
- The DOJ now lacks leaders for two of its signature initiatives, per Reuters.
- Quiñones' Miami office brought criminal charges against former Cuban President Raul Castro.
- The report does not say why Quiñones or Eisenberg resigned.
Two senior US Department of Justice officials resigned on November 6, 2026, accelerating an exodus of senior figures from the department after midterm elections in which President Donald Trump's Republicans lost control of Congress, Reuters reported.
John Eisenberg headed the DOJ's national security division. Jason Reding Quiñones, as US attorney for the Southern District of Florida, pursued probes into past criminal investigations of Trump. Their departures follow the resignation of civil rights unit chief Harmeet Dhillon on November 5.
The DOJ is now without leaders for two of its signature initiatives: relitigating past investigations and targeting higher education, according to Reuters.
The report does not say why Quiñones or Eisenberg resigned. It said it is not unusual for senior US officials to leave government after a midterm election, especially one that delivers a sharp setback to the party in power. Democrats plan a raft of investigations into Trump's administration and business dealings.
Quiñones was at the center of Trump's attempts to leverage the Justice Department to investigate his political adversaries, Reuters reported. His office was tasked with investigating the criminal probes of Trump's handling of classified documents after he left office in 2021 and his campaign's contacts with Russia in the 2016 election, among other issues.
The investigation, which officials dubbed a "grand conspiracy", sought to establish that the president was the victim of a long-running criminal conspiracy, according to the report. It has struggled to bring criminal charges thus far, and the prosecutor who had been overseeing the probe, Joseph diGenova, resigned in September.
Quiñones' Miami office also brought criminal charges against former Cuban President Raul Castro, Reuters reported, describing it as a major escalation of the Trump administration's pressure campaign against the communist country.