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ProPublicaonBluesky15h ago
In February 2025 alone, the DOJ dropped nearly 11,000 cases — the most in a month since at least 2004.
The previous high was just over 6,500 cases in September 2019, during Trump’s first administration.
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The DOJ declined to prosecute 11,000 criminal cases in February 2025 — the highest monthly number on record going back at least 22 years — marking a dramatic shift under Attorney General Pam Bondi toward immigration enforcement and away from white-collar crime, drugs, and terrorism investigations. ProPublica analyzed two decades of DOJ data and found the department closed over 23,000 cases in the first six months of Trump's second term while tripling immigration prosecutions, a departure even from the first Trump administration's priorities. The shift has prompted nearly 300 departing DOJ employees to criticize the changes as abandoning the department's core mission to protect the rule of law and civil rights.
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“In February 2025 alone, the DOJ dropped nearly 11,000 cases — the most in a month since at least 2004.”
ProPublica analyzed two decades of DOJ data and reported this specific figure. Claim directly supported by linked article with stated methodology.
“The previous high was just over 6,500 cases in September 2019, during Trump's first administration.”
Article states this comparison explicitly based on ProPublica's 20-year analysis of DOJ declination data. Historical comparison verified in source.
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