A top Justice Department attorney who has defended some of the Trump administration’s most politically and legally contentious cases is set to leave the department later this month after facing off against the nation’s most prominent appellate advocates.
Abhishek Kambli, a deputy associate attorney general who has been working under acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and previously under Pam Bondi, announced Thursday that he will depart the DOJ at the end of May after roughly 15 months. However, his leave will only come after he finishes oral arguments in two major showdowns over President Donald Trump’s executive authority.
Kambli is scheduled to argue next Thursday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in a pair of closely watched cases involving Trump’s executive orders targeting major law firms and security clearance disputes. The arguments are expected to test the outer bounds of presidential authority over national security access,
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