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Will Rosenzweig, considered a rising prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in Miami, was fired on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025, by then-U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi over anti-Trump posts that he made on a blog in 2017 while he was in private practice.<\/p>\n
Will Rosenzweig\u2019s LinkedIn page<\/p>\n
A former federal prosecutor who was fired because he had made critical blog posts about Donald Trump during his first term as president has sued the top U.S. law-enforcement officials in the nation and South Florida, saying in a lawsuit filed Friday they violated his free-speech rights when he was summarily terminated last year.<\/p>\n
Will Rosenzweig, 40, was fired by then-U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi last September after Trump supporters called for his firing in social-media posts after publicizing that the prosecutor had posted negative statements about the president when Rosenzweig was working as an attorney for a private law firm in Washington, D.C. \u2014 a few years before he was hired by the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in Miami.<\/p>\n
Bondi fired Rosenzweig by email without giving a reason on Sept. 23, 2025, while he was observing the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, with his family \u2014 just two weeks before he was to be the lead prosecutor in a multimillion-dollar healthcare-fraud trial.<\/p>\n
Rosenzweig, an Ivy League graduate who worked as a federal prosecutor for five years, asserted in his lawsuit that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, U.S. Attorney Jason A. Reding Qui\u00f1ones and the Department of Justice violated his legal protections under the First Amendment and other federal laws.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Department\u2019s conduct rests on a single premise: a citizen must forever refrain from criticizing the government and its leaders to remain eligible to serve it,\u201d says the suit, which was filed in Miami federal court.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat rule would force every American who might one day serve to choose between speaking freely now and working for the government later. Conditioning public employment on political loyalty, where a party card rather than merit opens the door to a government job, is a way of life in Havana and Caracas. It has no place here.\u201d<\/p>\n
With his dismissal, Rosenzweig joined the ranks of dozens of federal prosecutors fired by Trump\u2019s Justice Department in Washington, New York, Miami and other cities because they were believed to be at odds with the president or his political agenda. Rosenzweig \u2014 who was hired in January as a partner by the Miami law firm Meland Budwick \u2014 is seeking a declaration from the defendants that they violated his constitutional and administrative rights as a prosecutor. He also is seeking monetary damages and his former position in the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
Blanche and Reding Qui\u00f1ones, who are named as defendants in their official capacities, declined to comment in responses from the Justice Department and U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office, citing the ongoing litigation. Bondi was not named as a defendant because she was fired by Trump in April.<\/p>\n
Rosenzweig\u2019s supervisors at the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in Miami described him as \u201ctremendously efficient in the management of his cases,\u201d a \u201cformidable advocate in court\u201d and \u201cthe consummate team player,\u201d according to the suit. Despite such accolades, he was the third federal prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida to be summarily fired by the Bondi-led Justice Department since Trump started his second term as president in January 2025.<\/p>\n
But Rosenzweig wasn\u2019t fired because he had been associated with the criminal investigations of Trump by the Justice Department\u2019s special counsel during the prior Biden administration. That was why two other respected federal prosecutors in the Miami office were abruptly terminated last year.<\/p>\n
Rather, Rosenzweig was fired, according to sources, because of the negative things that he said about Trump on his blog before he became a federal prosecutor in Miami in 2020. When he was working for the prominent law firm Kobre & Kim in Washington during Trump\u2019s first term, Rosenzweig posted criticisms of the president starting in 2017 \u2014 posts that were brought to the attention of the Justice Department.<\/p>\n
In September 2025, conservative political commentator Natalie Winters posted on X about Miami-based federal prosecutor Will Rosenzweig. Winters tagged the X account of then-U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. The post was viewed about 1.5 millions times. X <\/p>\n
Last September, conservative political commentator Natalie Winters posted an \u201cEXCLUSIVE\u201d item on the social-media platform X about Rosenzweig\u2019s \u201canti-Trump\u201d blogging in the past, saying he \u201csmeared him as a \u2018mentally unfit\u2019 \u2018white supremacist.\u2019 \u201c<\/p>\n
\u201cNow he\u2019s using government power to wage LAWFARE against MAGA patriots,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
Winters, who tagged the X accounts of Bondi, Blanche and another senior official, included photos of Rosenzweig receiving a Justice Department award and a screenshot of his LinkedIn profile. Winters called for his firing in the X post, which was viewed about 1.5 millions times. Among her followers was one of the defendants in Rosenzweig\u2019s healthcare-fraud case, according to his lawsuit.<\/p>\n
Afterward, right-wing political activist Laura Loomer posted on X: \u201cSCOOP: DOJ sources tell me that Assistant US Attorney Will Rosenzweig was FIRED yesterday [Sept. 23] after he was exposed for running an anti-Trump blog.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rosenzweig\u2019s suit pointed out that Winters\u2019 post commented about anti-Trump blog commentary that \u201chad been defunct for nearly seven years, with no recent postings.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Rosenzweig wrote each and every article when he was still a private citizen,\u201d noted the suit, which was filed by the law firms Fridman, Fels & Soto in Miami and Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder in Connecticut.<\/p>\n
The suit acknowledged that Rosenzweig wrote the blog, \u201cHosts of Error,\u201d for three years, saying \u201cit is true that as a private citizen\u201d he \u201cpublished criticisms of President Trump during his 2016 campaign and first presidential term.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that was far from the primary purpose of the blog,\u201d the suit said. The blog\u2019s website included the subtitle: \u201cCommentaries on politics, law, and other things.\u201c<\/p>\n
\u201cThe blog included a range of political commentary,\u201d the suit stated. \u201cFor example, one post critiqued the political campaign of Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, while another analyzed the drawbacks of potential Supreme Court nominations of then-President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Rosenzweig used his blog to comment on a host of non-political, anodyne topics, including: college basketball and the annual \u2018March Madness\u2019 tournament; the legacy of American baseball player Pete Rose; a trip to Napa Valley; a travel review of the Canadian city of Toronto; and an essay on air travel and flying,\u201d the suit stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd while many of his past posts did include criticisms of Trump both as president and candidate, the quantity of these posts was largely a function of the blog being active during a time when Trump\u2019s actions were a central focus of then-current political events. In other words, Mr. Rosenzweig did not establish the blog with the intention of managing an \u2018anti-Trump blog.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n
According to the suit, Rosenzweig took down his website in January 2019 before he was hired as an assistant U.S. attorney the following year.<\/p>\n
Record as prosecutor<\/p>\n
Rosenzweig, who obtained his bachelor\u2019s and law degrees from Cornell University, joined the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in September 2020 toward the end of Trump\u2019s first term before he lost the presidential election to Joe Biden.<\/p>\n
Rosenzweig worked on dozens of complex cases as a prosecutor in the economic-crimes section, which focuses on healthcare fraud, money laundering and other financial schemes. He was deeply involved in a $17 million healthcare-fraud case that was scheduled for trial last October in Miami federal court, so his dismissal by Bondi caused disruption and delay. Another prosecutor replaced him, leading to the convictions of two white-collar defendants and long prison sentences.<\/p>\n
Right-wing political activist Laura Loomer posted about the ouster of Will Rosenzweig. X <\/p>\n
At the time, Rosenzweig\u2019s termination shocked several colleagues, who took note of the terrible timing because of the Jewish holiday and called the firing petty and another \u201cfrogmarch.\u201d They also said his loss was a significant blow to an office that had witnessed a \u201cbrain drain\u201d of veteran talent over the past year.<\/p>\n
The South Florida office \u2014 with roughly 120 prosecutors on staff, about half the usual number of lawyers \u2014 was once known as one of the busiest in the country, but it\u2019s now under siege.<\/p>\n
Reding Qui\u00f1ones, a former Miami-Dade County judge, took over as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida in August 2025. In a break from tradition, Reding Qui\u00f1ones, a member of the conservative Federalist Society and a Trump loyalist, was sworn in by Bondi<\/a> in Washington instead of by the Southern District of Florida\u2019s chief federal judge.<\/p>\n Despite being the head of the South Florida office, Reding Qui\u00f1ones \u201cnever contacted Mr. Rosenzweig about his termination\u201d by Bondi the following month, according to the fired prosecutor\u2019s suit.<\/p>\n Bondi fires another top Miami prosecutor<\/p>\n