Resignations hit the US Department of Justice after the elections and the resignation of two senior officials

Two high-ranking officials in the US Department of Justice resigned today, Friday, in an acceleration of the pace of resignations of senior officials in the department after the midterm elections that took place on Tuesday, in which President Donald Trump’s Republican colleagues lost control of Congress.

The resignations of John Eisenberg, who headed the National Security Division at the Department of Justice, and Jason Redding Quinones, who was pursuing investigations into previous criminal cases related to Trump, follow the resignation of the head of the Civil Rights Unit, Harmeet Dhillon, yesterday, Thursday.

The Department of Justice is now leaderless on two of its most prominent initiatives; The first is the initiative related to reviewing previous investigations, and the second targets higher education, according to Reuters.

It is not clear why Quinones or Eisenberg resigned. But it is not strange for senior American officials to leave the government after the midterm elections, especially those that inflict major defeats on the ruling party. Democrats are planning to conduct a series of investigations into the Trump administration and his business dealings.

As U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Quinones was at the center of Trump's attempts to exploit the Justice Department to retaliate against his political opponents. His office was tasked with reviewing criminal investigations related to Trump's handling of classified documents after leaving office in 2021, and his campaign's contacts with Russia in the 2016 elections, among other issues.

The investigation, which officials called the “Great Conspiracy,” aimed to prove that the president was the victim of a long-running criminal conspiracy. But the investigation has struggled to bring any criminal charges so far, and the prosecutor overseeing the investigation, Joseph DiGenova, resigned in September.

Quinones' office in Miami had also filed criminal charges against former Cuban President Raul Castro, in a major escalation of the pressure campaign launched by the Trump administration against Havana.

“Stephen Miller as White House Chief of Staff” is a broad title chosen by US President Donald Trump to rearrange his political papers and launch a new phase in his administration.

In a surprising move that immediately followed the Republican Party's severe defeat in the 2026 midterm elections and its loss of control of both chambers of Congress, Trump decided to shake up the West Wing hierarchy, placing his most fierce and loyal ideological comrade at the head of the presidential staff.

The official announcement came on the “Truth Social” platform to confirm the departure of Susie Wiles, the first woman to hold this position in history, to move to managing “Trump’s political operation” abroad, leaving the helm to Miller, the architect of hard-line policies and speechwriter who accompanied the president since the beginning of his journey to power.

This choice does not merely reflect a desire to replace faces, but rather represents a radical shift towards seeking the help of “loyal hawks” to confront the expected Democratic attack in Washington.

From the bottoms of Santa Monica to the halls of Duke University

Stephen Miller was born on August 23, 1985, in Santa Monica, California, a distinctly liberal environment that was completely different from the political convictions he later embraced. Miller grew up in a Reform Jewish family, but he began to show sharp and controversial conservative tendencies since his high school years, when he was a radical voice attacking the liberal ideas prevailing in his surroundings.

Miller then enrolled at the prestigious Duke University, where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in philosophy in 2007. During his university years, his name rose to the forefront of local and national media as a prominent speaker and fierce advocate for controversial cultural and political issues. He then took on the media defense of the university’s lacrosse players who were unjustly accused in a famous assault case, exploiting the incident to attack what he described as “political correctness” and the elites. Liberal Academy.

Engineering ideas under the dome of the Capitol

Miller began his career in Washington as an aide and media advisor to a number of conservative figures and the Tea Party movement in Congress. He worked as press secretary for Member of the House of Representatives Michele Bachmann, known for her sharp right-wing views, before moving to the most important station in his legislative career. She works as communications director for Republican Senator Jeff Sessions.

Under the dome of the Senate, Miller found in Sessions the godfather of his nationalist ideas. There, Miller crafted the intellectual and media framework to thwart a bipartisan immigration bill in 2013, and built a network of close relationships with right-wing media outlets, making him a household name among radical conservatives as one of the most prominent minds capable of transforming anti-immigration nationalism into workable political and legislative strategies.

The Shadow of the President and the Writer of the “Trumpism” Texts

In early 2016, Miller joined Donald Trump's first presidential campaign, and quickly became the brain behind his speeches, transferring Trump's instinctive feelings about borders and national identity into powerful and influential political texts, perhaps most notably his historic Republican nomination acceptance speech in the summer of 2016, and his famous presidential inauguration speech in January 2017.

After Trump entered the White House, Miller was appointed chief political advisor and director of the president's speeches. During the first four years, he emerged as the relentless architect behind the most controversial executive decisions; Foremost among them is the travel ban imposed on Muslim-majority countries, the “zero flexibility” policy on the borders that led to the separation of immigrant families, and the rush to build the border wall with Mexico.

After Trump lost the 2020 elections, Miller did not retreat into the shadows, but rather established the “America First Legal” organization to confront the Biden administration judicially. With Trump's return to power in January 2025, Miller returned with greater force and assumed the position of Deputy White House Chief of Staff for Policy and Homeland Security Advisor, a position that allowed him to expand his influence to include foreign and national security files, in addition to his direct supervision of extensive deportations.

The mystery of timing at the moment of Republican collapse

Trump's decision to tap Stephen Miller to run his office and the West Wing carries critical political implications, given the critical timing. The change comes only three days after the earthquake of the 2026 midterm elections, in which the Republicans lost the parliamentary majority completely to the Democrats.

According to the American media, the removal of Susie Wiles, who was known for her calm and disciplined style in managing balances, reflects Trump’s desire to abandon pragmatic diplomacy and enter into an open confrontation with the new Congress, and that the selection of Miller, who is described in Washington as “Trump’s translator mind,” means that the American administration in its next two years will be run with a combat mentality that does not accept compromise.

With his loyal companion by his side, Trump wants to fortify the White House with a solid ideological wall, and to ensure the continued implementation of his extreme nationalist policies through executive decrees, at a time when Democratic opponents are preparing to open expanded investigations into the administration’s policies and sensitive files.

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that Stephen Miller will replace Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff, just days after Republicans lost control of Congress in the midterm elections.

On his social media post, Trump praised Wiles and said she would continue to work for his political organization.

Miller, who has long been a key member of Trump's inner circle, is a key architect of the administration's hard-line immigration policies.

Wiles, a tough political operator and longtime adviser to Trump, was the first woman ever to hold the position.

Wiles' departure comes almost immediately after the Republican Party's crushing defeat in Tuesday's midterm elections. She will be replaced by Stephen Miller, a longtime trusted Trump aide.

The departure also came months after Wiles announced that she no longer had breast cancer, after undergoing months-long treatment for the disease, a diagnosis she announced publicly in March 2026.

Wiles is the longest serving White House chief of staff under Trump, who was replaced by four people during his first four-year term.