Two weeks after the U.S. Senate confirmed his nomination as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia in November 2021, Matthew Graves indicted longtime Trump confidante Steve Bannon on contempt of Congress charges.

The move represented how Graves would conduct himself in office. As the nation’s capital descended into a deadly and dangerous crime wave, Graves, also responsible for prosecuting local violent crime, devoted most of his resources to doing Joe Biden’s political dirty work: rounding up, charging, and imprisoning Americans who protested the 2020 election on January 6, 2021.

Graves today announced he will resign effective January 16, 2025. In a lengthy press release, his office bragged about Graves’ success in managing what the Department of Justice calls the “Capitol Siege” probe into the events of January 6:

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