House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) ordered Arlington’s top prosecutor to answer under oath. She spent months refusing. On July 1, he stopped asking.

Commonwealth’s Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti — Arlington County and Falls Church’s chief prosecutor — is compelled to a sworn deposition on July 16, whether she likes it or not.

She is the second Northern Virginia prosecutor Congress has hauled toward a witness table this year. The first one is ours — Fairfax’s Steve Descano.

Descano Testified in May. He Couldn’t Answer for His Own Policy. The Feds Opened a Civil-Rights Probe Anyway.

Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano (D) — the county’s top prosecutor — testified before the same committee on May 14, at a hearing titled “The Dangerous Consequences of Sanctuary Policies.”

Asked under oath how his own office runs his own written policy, Descano couldn’t explain it.

So on June 4, four committee members demanded the rest: every case in which his office weighed a defendant’s immigration status before deciding whether to go easy.

That policy is not a rumor. Descano wrote it on December 15, 2020 — prosecutors “shall consider immigration consequences where possible.”

The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is now investigating whether Descano’s policy did exactly what he wrote it to do: hand illegal-immigrant defendants a break it denied U.S. citizens.

Read that again. A federal civil-rights investigation into a Virginia prosecutor — for discriminating against American citizens.

Today, I received notice of a Department of Justice investigation into my office regarding one of our policies. My policies are fair, legal, and reflect the values of my community.

— Fairfax DA Steve Descano (@FairfaxCountyCA) May 6, 2026

Fair, legal, and his to define. That is the whole problem.

Arlington’s Prosecutor Moved to Shield the Activist Who Doxxed Stephen Miller. Then She Called the Subpoena a ‘Trespass.’

Dehghani-Tafti’s case is worse. Jordan subpoenaed her on March 20 — after she moved to limit an FBI search warrant against Barbara Wien.

Wien is a 66-year-old activist who papered a residential neighborhood with flyers showing the home address of White House official Stephen Miller and his family.

Dehghani-Tafti moved to protect the woman who published the address — not the family behind that door.

Her answer to Congress: “Chairman Jordan’s subpoena is an overreach, a trespass on state and local sovereignty with no legitimate federal interest.”

Translation: a prosecutor who spent years slamming the door on federal immigration officers just discovered the sanctity of jurisdictional lines — the moment those lines shielded her.

She called it a trespass. On July 16, she answers anyway — under oath, behind the closed doors she condemned.

Northern Virginia Had Three of These Prosecutors. Loudoun Voters Already Fired One.

In January, Descano and Dehghani-Tafti signed the same national coalition built to resist federal law enforcement in their own counties. Two prosecutors, one signature.

Northern Virginia used to have three of these prosecutors. It has two.

Loudoun County voters retired Buta Biberaj in 2023 and put Republican Bob Anderson in her chair. What Congress is now dragging out of these two under subpoena, Loudoun’s voters delivered at the ballot box.

House Judiciary Republicans wrote the first letter, held the hearing, and handed down the subpoenas neither prosecutor could talk her way out of.

The Trump Justice Department opened the civil-rights probe that Descano’s own victims’ families asked for — Stephanie Minter’s mother among them.

Descano wrote the policy. He defended it under oath. He is under federal investigation for it.

They asked. They held the hearing. They issued the subpoena. They opened the probe. For years, Fairfax families asked the same questions into a void.

Loudoun voters already retired theirs. Fairfax’s Descano and Arlington’s Dehghani-Tafti are on your ballot in November 2027.