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September 23, 2025

5 entries on this date.

Attorney General Bondi fired Miami prosecutor Rosenzweig over years-old anti-Trump blog posts, part of DOJ purge of critics

Attorney General Pam Bondi fired federal prosecutor Will Rosenzweig from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida in Miami on September 23, 2025, less than three hours after conservative commentator Natalie Winters publicized years-old blog posts Rosenzweig had written as a private citizen criticizing Donald Trump. Rosenzweig, a five-year veteran of the office, was two weeks from trying a multimillion-dollar Medicare fraud case at the time; his firing was part of what reporting described as a broader personnel purge inside the Justice Department of prosecutors and agents seen as insufficiently loyal to the administration.

Hegseth disbands 74-year-old Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, citing 'divisive feminist agenda'

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth formally disbanded the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS) on September 23, 2025, ending a Pentagon advisory panel established in 1951. A Pentagon spokesperson justified the termination by stating the committee "is focused on advancing a divisive feminist agenda that hurts combat readiness." The disbanding was carried out pursuant to a disestablishment memo Hegseth signed on September 17.

FEMA opened investigation into employees who wrote Congress warning of leadership risks; ordered non-disclosure agreements

On September 23, 2025, at least seven FEMA employees who had signed the Katrina Declaration — a letter warning Congress that the agency's political leadership threatened effective emergency management — received emails from the DHS Office of Professional Responsibility ordering them to sign non-disclosure agreements and submit to investigative interviews. The employees had already been placed on paid administrative leave in August after the letter became public. Attorneys for the employees characterized the investigation as illegal retaliation for protected whistleblower disclosures and protected congressional communications.

Miami-Dade College board transferred downtown land to Trump library foundation without public notice

On September 23, 2025, Miami-Dade College's Board of Trustees held an emergency meeting with no public notice and voted to transfer a 2.63-acre downtown Miami parcel -- appraised at $67 million and potentially worth up to $300 million -- into a state fund controlled by Gov. Ron DeSantis, which then routed the land to the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation. The college received no compensation for the land and has faced up to $300,000 in its own legal fees defending the transfer against a Sunshine Law lawsuit.

North Carolina auditor's elections liaison guided GOP county boards on removing their nonpartisan elections directors

On September 23, 2025, Dallas Woodhouse -- the elections liaison in Republican North Carolina State Auditor Dave Boliek's office -- emailed Republican-majority election board members in New Hanover and Anson counties a step-by-step guide, including a template removal petition, for firing their nonpartisan elections directors, bypassing the normal channel through the state elections director's office. New Hanover County director Rae Hunter-Havens abruptly retired on October 7, 2025, two weeks later, citing health reasons; records obtained by WECT nearly a year later showed board members privately describing her departure as a firing. Woodhouse acknowledged in an interview that his advice "could be deemed as putting a thumb on the scale."