Members of the US Marshals Service confer in South Abington Township, Pennsylvania, in 2018. <\/span>Butch Comegys\/The Times-Tribune via AP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n A whistleblower who testified<\/span> in Congress today is accusing the Trump administration of trying to \u201cintimidate\u201d her with help from the US Marshals Service, the law enforcement agency of the federal judiciary.<\/p>\n Liz Oyer, the former US pardon attorney who was fired last month, says Justice Department leaders dispatched two special deputy marshals to her house on Friday night\u2014days before she was scheduled to speak with lawmakers about her concerns with the firing of career employees and what she describes<\/a> as \u201ccorruption\u201d at the department. \u201cYou appear to be using the Department\u2019s security resources to intimidate a former employee who is engaged in statutorily protected whistleblower conduct,\u201d Oyer\u2019s attorney Michael Bromwich, a former Department of Justice inspector general, wrote in a letter<\/a> to Justice Department leadership on Monday. He said dispatching special deputy marshals to Oyer\u2019s home was \u201cboth unprecedented and completely inappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou appear to be using the Department\u2019s security resources to intimidate a former employee.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n As I reported earlier today, this is not the first time US marshals have acted in strange ways since President Donald Trump came to office. In a deep-dive<\/a>, I looked at how the law enforcement agency has been recruited recently to help Elon Musk, Trump\u2019s right-hand man. Since January, the US Marshals Service has deputized members of Musk\u2019s private security detail, helped his Department of Government Efficiency get inside a federal agency it was trying to dismantle, and even prodded federal judges to move more quickly on Jan. 6 cases.<\/p>\n For more on Oyers\u2019 testimony, check out some of today\u2019s news coverage<\/a>. And if you\u2019re confused about the Marshals Service and its recent activity\u2014or if you\u2019re curious to hear experts explain why we should care about it\u2014head to my explainer<\/a>. As one former DOJ official told me, \u201cthe risk to people\u2019s civil rights is enormous.\u201d<\/p>\n Oyer: Perhaps the most personally upsetting part of the story is the lengths to which the leadership of the department has gone to prevent me from testifying here today. On Friday night, I learned that the Deputy Attorney General\u2019s office had directed the department\u2019s Security\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/Ah3wx9HD37<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Acyn (@Acyn) April 7, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/article><\/div>\n\n
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