We previously blogged about the Rosenzweig saga, including the Golden Hammers.
The next chapter is here -- and the former AUSA has sued (here's the complaint, which is now before Judge Moore and has a blog reference). He's represented by Margaret Donovan, Dan Fridman, and Adam Fels.
“The Department’s conduct rests on a single premise: a citizen must forever refrain from criticizing the government and its leaders to remain eligible to serve it,” says the suit, which was filed in Miami federal court. “That 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.”
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The South Florida office — with roughly 120 prosecutors on staff, about half the usual number of lawyers — was once known as one of the busiest in the country, but it’s now under siege. Reding Quiñones, 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 Quiñones, a member of the conservative Federalist Society and a Trump loyalist, was sworn in by Bondi in Washington instead of by the Southern District of Florida’s chief federal judge. Despite being the head of the South Florida office, Reding Quiñones “never contacted Mr. Rosenzweig about his termination” by Bondi the following month, according to the fired prosecutor’s suit.
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