President Donald Trump is set to appoint Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Deputy Director Dan Bishop to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina, senior White House officials confirmed to The Federalist.
Bishop, who served as a conservative stalwart in Congress since 2019, could start serving as U.S. attorney as early as next week on an interim appointment awaiting Senate confirmation.
Bishop was already confirmed by the Senate in a 53-45 vote earlier this year for the No. 2 spot at OMB.
After last year’s election, Bishop wrote in these pages about the need for dramatic reform at the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division (CRD), a vision shared by that division’s leader, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon.
The CRD is notorious for attracting the worst of the worst that the far-left legal movement has to offer.
Dhillon has detailed active attempts to thwart the mandate of elected Republican presidents among the attorneys of what she described as the “color revolution wing” of the DOJ, the “crying sessions,” and much more.
Bishop noted CRD’s selective targeting of political opponents, such as Elon Musk.
“CRD also whipsaws municipal police and jails and school systems with pattern and practice investigations — stymying disciplinary and enforcement practices in some and condemning the chaos resulting from disciplinary neglect in others,” he wrote. “The division signals its abortion fervor with harsh FACE Act prosecutions for obstructing abortion clinics but acts sparingly and lightly on threats and vandalism against pregnancy counseling centers.”
From reforming warped enforcement of sex discrimination under Title IX to establishing elections with integrity, and from ending government censorship to doing away with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), Bishop’s drive seems fully in line with the drive to restore the Department of Justice in the Trump administration.
Bishop served on the Judiciary Committee and the Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, which is tasked with investigating the Biden administration’s rampant abuses, particularly in its political persecution of conservatives.
Among those abuses are the “domestic terrorist” threat tag created by the FBI to go after parents who spoke out at school board meetings against draconian coronavirus protocols, critical race theory, and transgender ideology, among other things. According to a whistleblower, FBI agents in the Washington field office manipulated January 6 cases to fabricate the narrative that domestic terrorism was increasing in the United States. The Biden administration put intense pressure on social media companies to censor speech about the 2020 election, the coronavirus, and other major topics. The number of abuses are countless.
When Bishop was questioning witnesses about “the largest censorship program every run by the government of the United States,” asked, “how could the FBI who is sworn to protect the constitution ever justify using intense application of its resources, agents, etc., to urge social media platforms to use those standards to take down speech that the constitution protects?”
As a lawyer, Bishop was a commercial litigator for nearly 30 years receiving plaudits in legal circles such as Business NC’s “Legal Elite” multiple times as well as being selected by “Super Lawyers” multiple times.
Before serving in U.S. Congress, Bishop served in the North Carolina state House and Senate, as well as county commissioner.
Bishop received a degree in business administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as well as his law degree.
He was born and raised in North Carolina in a family of five children. He has been married to his wife, Jo, for 25 years and their son Jack is pursuing a law degree.
As U.S. attorney, he will be in charge of all federal law enforcement in the Middle District of North Carolina.
