# Aakash Singh Associate Deputy Attorney General in the second Trump [[Department of Justice]], working under Deputy Attorney General [[Todd Blanche]]. Previously a Senate Judiciary Committee staffer for [[Chuck Grassley]]. ## Why he is in the vault Singh has been reported as a central figure in the department's push to drive prosecutorial **case volume**, the pressure that produced the [[DOJ Case Quota Directive]] — the 25-open-case minimum imposed on line prosecutors across all 93 U.S. Attorneys' offices. Bloomberg Law's profile characterized his posture toward career prosecutors as treating the president as the department's "chief client," a framing that inverts the conventional understanding of DOJ's client as the United States. He separately drew a April 30, 2026 letter from Representatives Jamie Raskin and Mary Gay Scanlon over the department's posture toward the Southern Poverty Law Center and First Amendment-protected activity. The case-volume push is the mechanism underlying [[Fraud Enforcement Inversion]]. > [!note] Stub — fill out > Confirmation/appointment record, full prior government service, the specific > internal memoranda attributed to him, and the outcome of the Raskin-Scanlon inquiry. ## See also - [[DOJ Case Quota Directive]] · [[Fraud Enforcement Inversion]] - [[Todd Blanche]] · [[Pam Bondi]] · [[Department of Justice]]