Prosecutors will present evidence to a grand jury, who are ordinary citizens who will decide if there is enough evidence to take the trio accused of murder to trial, CBS News reported. It is not yet clear who might be sued, or what charges those defendants could face.
The moves comes after repeated claims by Trump and his allies that Russiagate was a politically motivated attempt to undermine the president's campaign and presidency.
Trump has repeatedly dismissed the charges of collusion with Moscow, calling them part of a political persecution.
The Gabbard Claim vs. Durham: A New Controversy Festers
It followed explosive claims by US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard who said weeks ago that former President Barack Obama and his national security team had launched a"years-long coup" against Trump through the politicisation of intelligence on Russian interference.
Obama has since called Trump`s claims as "bizarre", against which Trump said on Monday that Obama may have committed the crime of treason.
Democrats have also repeatedly aligned with the 2017 US intelligence evaluation that Russia sought to undermine Clinton's campaign and boost Trump in the 2016 contest.
That was also the finding of a bipartisan Senate intelligence report from 2020.
Fox News also reported that former CIA Director John Brennan and ex-FBI chief James Comey are under criminal investigation for their roles in the Russia probe, claims both men deny.
New Details From Durham Investigation
The grand jury order comes after the partial declassification of a 29-page appendix to Special Counsel John Durham's investigation was released last week.
Among them is a March 2016 intelligence memo that alleges Hillary Clinton approved a plan to smear Trump by pushing the narrative that he was a Russian asset.
A special prosecutor, Durham mentioned, in the form of emails hacked from Democratic computers that could have started with Russian intelligence.
Another email from Leonard Benardo of Open Society Foundations is claimed to have said a Clinton adviser, Julianna Smith, had forwarded the narrative to be saved in reserve 'for post-convention momentum' as the FBI would stimulate the story further down the line.
For the finger to be proven correct, he would necessarily have had to fruitlessly devote time into verification of those emails or happened to uncover some bombshell that showed FBI-led plot. Benardo and Smith both denied writing or reading such emails, although Benardo did say some of the phrasing sounded like his.
Mixed Conclusions from Investigations
The Durham report of 2023, over 306 pages long and criticized as having suffers from a lack of "analytical rigor", accused the FBI's original Russia probe of predication errors but did not go so far as to accuse law enforcement officials of wrongdoing or that they purposely went out against Trump.
While it is confirmed that Russia interfered in the election, using social media manipulation and email hacking to reach its objectives, US officials later determined they did not believe any aspect of this interference actually swayed the final outcome.
But Bondi's decision to file suit suggests a revved up drive by the Trump-aligned Justice Department to resurrect one of the most polarizing political scandals in recent years, even as the 2026 campaign begins to take shape.
