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The Trump Officials Still Running Biden’s Justice Department

Two senior career staffers continue to work in Attorney General Merrick Garland’s office, and he’s shown no signs of doing anything about it.

BY ELEANOR EAGAN DECEMBER 13, 2021

Attorney General Merrick Garland speaks at a news conference at the Justice Department, November 8, 2021.

The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org.

We are rapidly approaching the one-year anniversary of January 6, and Attorney General Merrick Garland has yet to give any sign that his Justice Department is independently investigating former President Trump and his fellow instigators. This is, by far, Garland’s most high-profile failure when it comes to accountability for the prior administration, one that more observers have begun to notice. But it is not the only one.

The Revolving Door Project has identified two Trump political officials who remain in senior career roles at the Department of Justice, in the Federal Programs Branch and the solicitor general’s office, after being hired under suspicious circumstances. From their perches, both have played a part maintaining Trump’s legacy in the courts. Their presence and power point to the danger of Garland’s refusal to “look backward.”

The first official is Alexander Haas, the current director of the DOJ Civil Division’s Federal Programs Branch. Haas joined the department in January 2017, the first month of the Trump administration. He nominally left his job at law firm King & Spalding for a career position as an assistant U.S. attorney in the DOJ. Just one month later, however, he already had a new gig as chief of staff and special counsel to Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division Chad Readler.

It’s not just the timing that’s unusual here. Almost without exception, chiefs of staff to assistant attorney generals are political appointees. On paper, however, Haas appears to have remained an assistant U.S. attorney, with his stint in the Civil Division front office a temporary detail. If he was going to be transferred into a political role so quickly, why was he not hired into that position to begin with? Was there some reason it was preferable that he be hired as a career official?

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Whatever the category listed on his HR paperwork, Haas was indistinguishable from any other political appointee. At the Trump DOJ, he worked closely with Readler—a man whom the Alliance for Justice described as exhibiting a “diehard advocacy for right-wing causes” when he was subsequently nominated and confirmed to a seat on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals—on some of the Trump administration’s most horrendous cases. For example, in Garza v. Hargan,Haas defended the Trump administration in a case challenging the federal government’s refusal to allow a 17-year-old ICE detainee access to an abortion.

In 2019, Haas became the director of the Federal Programs Branch, a career position. But while his political title was gone, his actions did not follow. In 2020, Haas defended the Trump administration’s efforts to truncate the 2020 census, a move that civil rights groups labeled a backdoor effort at disenfranchisement. Haas also put his name to a Justice Department complaint against Melania Trump’s former adviser Stephanie Winston Wolkoff for publishing her tell-all memoir. Legal experts decried the filing as “legally unenforceable”and “a complete abuse of the Justice Department’s finite resources.”

Now that the administration has changed, Haas has not shaken his habit of defending Trump-era legal positions. Notably, his Federal Programs Branch was involved in the outrageous effort, covered by my colleague Hannah Story Brown late last month, tostop the reinstatement of Obama-era Gainful Employment rules designed to protect student borrowers.

The second official we’ve identified paints an even more straightforwardly political picture. Curtis Gannon, who currently occupies the career position of deputy solicitor general, was a member of the Trump DOJ’s political team from the very start. From January to November 2017, Gannon led the Office of Legal Counsel, a role which notably saw him green-light Trump’s refugee ban, as well as other horrific ideas. He appears to have remained in that office through August 2020, at which point he moved to the solicitor general’s office. From there, he has argued before the Supreme Court that Nestlé cannot be held liable for its reliance on child slavery and, most recently, that Puerto Ricans can be denied Social Security benefits (a position that Biden himself opposes).

Gannon’s transformation from political to career official actually has a name—burrowing—and it is supposed to be the subject of careful scrutiny. Agencies that want to hire political officials into career roles must first receive approval from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Sadly, OPM faced its own struggles with politicization during the Trump administration, casting serious doubt on the integrity of its approval process. Prior reporting on other burrowers at the DOJ and elsewhere only adds to these concerns. OPM didn’t object, for example, when Tracy Short, a longtime immigration prosecutor and legal adviser to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), was hired as the chief judge in the Executive Office for Immigration Review.

Gannon’s transformation from political to career official actually has a name—burrowing—and it is supposed to be the subject of careful scrutiny.

Officials who were paying attention should have seen this coming. Trump and his associates had no qualms breaking the rules to maintain power. Is it a stretch to think that they might have done the same for hiring? They had a ready-made template to follow, in fact. Under President George W. Bush, the Justice Department famously and illegally screened new hires according to their political beliefs. Applicants with liberal affiliations were rejected. Those who got interviews were asked to answer questions like “What kind of conservative are you?”

Garland, for one, has been clear that he has no intention of finding out if something similar happened again. On this and other questions, he is not “looking backward” for fear that investigations will only “further politicize” the department. But refusing to acknowledge a problem will not make it go away. On the contrary, it is among the most surefire ways for it to become entrenched.

Can we say beyond a shadow of a doubt that these officials were hired improperly? Of course not. But it’s clear that each case warrants thorough investigation. What’s more, Garland must take these examples to their logical end. If these hiring processes were politicized, what others may have been? Leaving the public to wonder about critical questions like these is a grave threat to Garland’s stated mission to restore trust in his department. It’s time that Garland decides whether he cares more about that or being labeled a partisan by congressional Republicans.

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Requested Records

American Oversight requests that your office produce the following records within

twenty business days:

All email communications (including emails, email attachments, complete email

chains, calendar invitations, and calendar invitation attachments) and text

messages or messages on messaging platforms (such as Slack, GChat or Google

Hangouts, Lync, Skype, Twitter direct messages, Facebook messages,

WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, or Parler) between (a) Director of the Federal

Programs Branch Alex Haas both or anyone communicating on Haas’ behalf,

such as a Chief of Staff, scheduler, or assistant, and (b) any of the external parties

listed below:

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Any person communicating on behalf of Heritage Action, including but not

limited to Jessica Anderson, Garrett Bess, or any person communicating

from an email address ending in @heritageaction.com

2. Any person communicating on behalf of the Heritage Foundation, including

but not limited to Ed Meese, Bridgett Wagner, Hans von Spakovsky, or any

person communicating from an email address ending in @heritage.org

3. Kris Kobach (including, but not limited to, communications with the email

kkobach@gmail.com or kris@kriskobach.com)

4. Anyone communicating on behalf of the Public Interest Legal Foundation

or the Election Law Center, including but not limited to J. (John) Christian

Adams, Maureen Riordan, or any person communicating from an email

address ending in @publicinterestlegal.org or @electionlawcenter.com

Anyone communicating on behalf of FreedomWorks, including but not

limited to Cleta Mitchell, or any person communicating from an email

address ending in @freedomworks.org or @foley.com

Anyone communicating on behalf of True the Vote, including but not

limited to Catherine Engelbrecht, Courtney Kramer, or any person

communicating from an email address ending in @truethevote.org

Anyone communicating on behalf of Susan B. Anthony List, American

Principles Project, or the Election Transparency Initiative, including but not

limited to Ken Cuccinelli, or any person communicating from an email

address ending in @sba-list.org, @americanprinciplesproject.org, or

@electiontransparency.org

Anyone communicating on behalf of the Federalist Society or the Honest

Elections Project including but not limited to Leonard Leo, Jason Snead, or

any person communicating from an email address ending in

@honestelections.org, @fed-soc.org, or @jasonsnead.com

Anyone communicating on behalf of the State Policy Network, including but

not limited to Tracie Sharp, Kathleen O’Hearn,or any person

communicating from an email address ending in @spn.org

Anyone communicating on behalf of the American Greatness Fund or the

Thomas Moore Society, including but not limited to Jenna Ellis, or any

person communicating from an email address ending in

@americangreatnessfund.com or @thomasmoresociety.org

11. Phill Kline (phillklineva@gmail.com), Luis Cornelio

(lcornel001@citymail.cuny.edu), or anyone communicating on behalf of the

Amistad Project or the American Voter’s Alliance (@got-freedom.org)

Anyone communicating on behalf ofALEC, including but not limited to

Michael Bowman, Bill Meierling, or any person communicating from an

email address ending in @alec.org

13. James Bopp, or any person communicating from an email address ending in

@bopplaw.com

14.Will Consovoy, Michael Connally, or any person communicating from an

email address ending in @consovoymccarthy.com

Jason Torchinsky or any person communicating from an email address

ending in @hvjt.law

16. Stefan Passantino, Justin Clark, or any person communicating from an email

address ending in @michaelbest.com

Sidney Powell, and anyone communicating on behalf of Sidney Powell, P.C.,

including anyone communicating from an email address ending in

@federalappeals.com

18. Mike Lindell or anyone communicating from an email address ending in

@mypillow.com

19. Kurt Olsen (kurtols@protonmail.com)

William Olson (williamolson@lawandfreedom.com, wjo@mindspring.com)

21. Patrick Byrne (including, but not limited to patrick@deepcapture.com), or

anyone communicating on behalf of the America Project, including anyone

communicating from an email address ending in @americaproject.com

22. Colonel Phil Waldron (phil@onewarrior.com, JWRLLC@gmail.com, or

p@bonfiresearch.org), Russell Ramsland (ryuks9sq@alliedspecialops.us or

yrku9sqs@protonmail.com), James Keet Lewis III (keet@jkeetlewis.com), or

anyone communicating on behalf of Allied Security Operations Group

(@alliedspecialops.us)

John Eastman (including but not limited to, from the email address

jeastman@claremont.org or jeastman@chapman.edu), or anyone

communicating on behalf of Constitutional Counsel Group (@ccg1776.com)

Anyone communicating on behalf of theAmerica First Policy Institute,

including Brooke Rollins, Chad Wolf,or anyone communicating from an

email address ending in @americafirstpolicy.com

Anyone communicating on behalf of America First Legal, including Stephen

Miller, Gene Hamilton, Russ Vought, or anyone communicating from an

email address ending in @aflegal.org

Please note that American Oversight does not seek, and that this request

specifically excludes, the initial mailing of news clips or other mass-distribution

emails. However, subsequent communications forwarding such emails are

responsive to this request. In other words, for example, if Director Haas

received a mass-distribution news clip email from a listed domain, that initial

email would not be responsive to this request. However, if Director Haas

forwarded that email to another individual with his own commentary, that

subsequent message would be responsive to this request and should be produced.

Please provide all responsive records from November 3, 2020, through the date

the search is conducted.

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