Overview
- ProPublica reports the department declined more than 23,000 pending criminal matters in the first six months, including about 11,000 in Pam Bondi’s first month.
- In the same span, federal prosecutors opened roughly 32,000 immigration cases, nearly triple the pace under Biden.
- A Justice Department spokesperson said the declinations stemmed from a case‑management data cleanup rather than a policy change.
- The dropped matters included nearly 5,000 drug cases and more than 1,300 terrorism or national security cases, plus hundreds of fraud probes.
- Courts have pushed back on the immigration surge, with judges issuing over 7,000 rulings against ICE and detainees filing more than 26,000 emergency suits.