A former legal employee for federal judges who rejected the secret document case against President Donald Trump now served in the Department of Justice directly under the former lawyer of the defender Trump Todd Blanche, who now serves as the number two law enforcement officials.
Christopher-James Delorenz has served as an advisor to the Deputy Attorney General’s Office since President Trump served in January, according to officials and the Delorenz Public LinkedIn page and page.
Delorenz served for 10 months as a legal employee for the US District Judge Aileen Cannon, during the period where he led Jack Smith’s special prosecutor about Trump for accusing secret documents after leaving the White House and hindering the government’s efforts to take it.
According to his LinkedIn page, Delorenz left the Cannon office in August 2024, only a month after Cannon issued a case against Trump, where he made a legal precedent for decades by finding that Smith had been appointed unconsciously.
It is unclear whether Blanche, who is Trump’s main lawyer in the case of secret documents and served early last month after a narrow confirmation by the US Senate, had a direct involvement in Delorenz’s recruitment.
Trump has managed the most senior ranking of DOJ with a lawyer who previously represented it in various criminal and civilian problems, as part of a broader effort to reaffirm the control of the department that brought two criminal prosecution against him after he left the office in 2021.
While the clerk for district judges is often a way to senior work in a government, Delorenz’s position is the first appointment known for the former employee for a Cannon judge, who dismissing the document case gave Trump of a large -magnitude political victory.
President Donald Trump crossed the southern yard after leaving Marine One at the White House in Washington, April 6, 2025.
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Cannon, which was nominated to the bench by Trump in 2020, was criticized by many legal experts for several decisions that helped support Trump’s lawyer’s strategy to postpone this case to court.
Both the Judge Cannon room and the Department of Justice did not immediately respond to requests for comments from ABC News.
Cannon previously responded to the advantage of Trump’s advantage in an order that denied the request for him to resign from leading the criminal case Ryan Routh, who was accused of trying to kill Trump at his golf club in Florida in September last year.
“I have never spoken or met with former President Trump, except in connection with his presence needed in the official justice process, through legal advisors,” Cannon wrote in the October 2024 decision.
“I have no relationship with [Trump]’In the sense of a reasonable phrase. I took my oath to manage justice faithfully and impartially, in accordance with the constitution and law of this country, “he wrote.