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Former US prosecutor sues over Rosh Hashanah firing linked to anti-Trump blog

Will Rosenzweig alleges Justice Department terminated him hours after right-wing commentator posted about his old writings

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Former US prosecutor sues over Rosh Hashanah firing linked to anti-Trump blog

What this story says

  • Will Rosenzweig, a former assistant US attorney in Florida, was fired in September 2025 during Rosh Hashanah, two weeks before a major Medicare fraud trial he was handling.
  • The lawsuit alleges his termination followed a social media post by right-wing commentator Natalie Winters about his old anti-Trump blog, which he wrote before joining the Justice Department.
  • Rosenzweig seeks reinstatement, backpay, and damages, arguing his firing violated First Amendment protections for speech made as a private citizen.
  • No right-rated outlet reported on the lawsuit, according to the digests and reports available.

Who covered it

Left 45%(9)Centre 55%(11)Right 0%(0)

Percentages are shares of the 20 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. Coverage measured .

Trust

66/100

Craft

85/100

Hype

30/100

20 sources · methodology

Missing from the right

None of the 20 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated right.

A reader who follows the right would not have seen this. We report the absence rather than explain it: outlets choose what to cover for many reasons, and we have no evidence about which one applies here.

Will Rosenzweig, a former assistant US attorney in the Southern District of Florida, was fired in September 2025 during Rosh Hashanah. The termination came two weeks before jury selection was set to begin in a Medicare fraud case involving three defendants, which Rosenzweig had worked on for years. He filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department on 7 August 2026, alleging his firing was politically motivated and violated his First Amendment rights.

The lawsuit claims Rosenzweig’s termination followed a social media post by right-wing commentator Natalie Winters. On the day he was fired, Winters shared a screenshot of Rosenzweig’s LinkedIn profile and wrote that he had "secretly run [an] anti-Trump blog for YEARS" while using "government power to wage LAWFARE against MAGA patriots." She tagged then-Attorney General Pam Bondi and called for his firing. The post was later deleted.

Rosenzweig’s lawsuit states he was fired by email less than three hours after Winters’ post. The termination memo was signed by Bondi. The lawsuit alleges the firing disrupted the Medicare fraud case, which involved defendants Marcelo Kochen, Michael Kochen, and Sandro Herek. Michael Kochen and Herek were later convicted and sentenced; Marcelo Kochen’s case remains pending.

Rosenzweig’s blog, which he started in January 2016, included posts critical of then-candidate Donald Trump. The blog was largely inactive by January 2019, before he joined the Justice Department. His lawyers argue that his pre-employment speech is protected under the First Amendment and that the Justice Department violated its own policies by targeting it.

What the coverage left out

None of the right-rated digests or reports carried the story. The omission is a finding: no right-rated outlet among those listed published any account of Rosenzweig’s lawsuit or his allegations. The left and centre digests did not mention the specific dollar amounts Rosenzweig seeks in backpay and damages, though KIFI’s full report noted the request for financial compensation without specifying figures.

Tags:#USPolitics#FirstAmendment#JusticeDepartment#TrumpAdministration#WorkplaceDiscrimination#MedicareFraud

Coverage settled. We checked this 205 times and stopped on 13 Aug 2026, 18:15. The figures above are what it finished at.

How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

9 rated outlets

  • The five left-rated digests led on Rosenzweig’s First Amendment claim. All five stated that he was fired over "critical comments he had written as a private citizen about President Donald Trump" and that his lawsuit alleges the termination violated his constitutional rights. The Toronto Star, The Seattle Times, and The Hamilton Spectator used identical wording from an AP digest, while CNN’s digest highlighted the timing of the firing during Rosh Hashanah.
  • KIFI’s full report, republished from CNN, provided the most detail among the left-rated outlets. It quoted Rosenzweig’s lawsuit directly, describing the firing as part of a "wider campaign to conduct political firings." The report also named Natalie Winters as the commentator whose post preceded the termination and noted that Winters later claimed credit for the firing on social media. It included the context of the Medicare fraud case and the status of the defendants’ convictions.

Centre

11 rated outlets

  • The eight centre-rated digests carried the same core facts: Rosenzweig’s firing, his pre-employment blog posts critical of Trump, and his First Amendment claim. Seven of the eight digests used identical wording from an AP report, stating that he was fired over "critical comments he had written as a private citizen." KRDO, KEYT, and KESQ carried a CNN digest that added the detail of Winters’ social media post and the timing of the firing during Rosh Hashanah.
  • KIFI’s full report, the only centre-rated outlet to publish its own article, led with the role of Winters’ social media post in triggering the firing. It quoted the lawsuit’s allegation that the termination was part of a "wider campaign" and included the timing of the firing during Rosh Hashanah. The report also named Todd Blanche, a defendant in the lawsuit, and noted his pending confirmation as Trump’s next Attorney General. It described the Medicare fraud case and the defendants’ legal outcomes in detail.

Right

0 rated outlets

No outlet rated right ran this story. We watched the coverage until it stopped changing, and none appeared.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Former US prosecutor sues over Rosh Hashanah firing linked to…?
Of the 20 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 45% are rated left, 55% are rated centre, 0% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Former US prosecutor sues over Rosh Hashanah firing linked to… left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 20 rated outlets on this story, 45% are rated left, 55% are rated centre, 0% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of Former US prosecutor sues over Rosh Hashanah firing linked to… biased?
Former US prosecutor sues over Rosh Hashanah firing linked to anti-Trump blog is one event reported by 20 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Former US prosecutor sues over Rosh Hashanah firing linked to…?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated right had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Former US prosecutor sues over Rosh Hashanah firing linked to…?
20 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
Why was Will Rosenzweig fired?
Rosenzweig alleges he was fired in September 2025 after right-wing commentator Natalie Winters posted about his years-old anti-Trump blog. The lawsuit claims the termination violated his First Amendment rights, as the blog was written before he joined the Justice Department and was protected speech.
What does Rosenzweig’s lawsuit seek?
The lawsuit seeks Rosenzweig’s reinstatement as an assistant US attorney, backpay for the period he was unemployed, and damages from the Justice Department. It argues his firing was politically motivated and disrupted a Medicare fraud case he was handling.
Which outlets reported on the lawsuit?
The story was covered by five left-rated outlets and eight centre-rated outlets, according to the digests and reports available. No right-rated outlet published an account of Rosenzweig’s lawsuit or his allegations.

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