White House is expected to shake up more leadership roles at Justice Department, sources say

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News

Updated on: April 4, 2026 / 3:41 PM EDT


President Trump is likely to make leadership changes involving two more top roles at the Justice Department, sources told CBS News on Saturday. The changes are most likely to affect Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, the No. 3 official at the Justice Department and Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division.

Senior officials have discussed promoting Dhillon to one of the top department roles, while demoting Woodward, the sources added. It was unclear if final decisions had been made yet. The discussions of a possible promotion for Dhillon come shortly after Mr. Trump ousted Attorney General Pam Bondi earlier this week, after frustrations that she had not aggressively pursued criminal charges against his political enemies. A Justice Department spokesperson declined to comment on personnel matters.

Mr. Trump named Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche as acting attorney general earlier this week. It is unclear whether he will eventually be the permanent replacement. Other front-runners include Lee Zeldin, a former congressman who currently leads the Environmental Protection Agency, CBS previously reported.

Woodward previously served as a defense attorney representing many prominent Trump allies in the past, including White House adviser Peter Navarro, FBI Director Kash Patel and Walt Nauta, who was charged by Special Counsel Jack Smith in the classified documents case.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-shake-up-more-leadership-roles-justice-department/

[AZ8theist]

1. At this point....

He should appoint Ted Nugent or Kid Rock as Attorney General.

It can't be any worse than any other clown working for him at this point.

[Delarage]

2. Rearranging the deck chairs

On the Trumptanic

[mdbl]

5. Seriously.

And the word "leadership" doesn't apply to a bunch of inexperienced, self-centered, self-enriching morons. It's ironic how the GOP fooled the magat base into thinking this was a problem with the democrats.

[orangecrush]

3. Translation

Expect things to get much worse very quickly

[Attilatheblond]

4. And the faster things get worse, the more distractions and scapegoats he will have to unleash.

It is ALWAYS going to be somebody else's fault when things go wrong, no matter how often he makes things go wrong.

[Aussie105]

6. Is it wrong to enjoy watching this happening?

Normally, feeling pleasure at watching parts of a government fall apart under pressure leading to heads rolling would be a bad thing, but in this case, it just brings up the 'wrong people in the wrong place pretending to be doing jobs they are incapable of' feeling of . . .something.

Karma at work?

[Whip-poor-will]

7. Shake out not up

Epstein files CDs films sounds like a better shake out to me.

[bluestarone]

8. Getting organized for

November 2026. We better be doing the same.