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Stanley Woodward is the associate attorney general of the United States, the Justice Department's third-ranking official, in office since November 2025. He previously worked in private practice as a defense attorney and served as senior counselor to the president earlier in the administration.
DI has documented statements by Stanley Woodward on Consumer Protection, Energy Policy, and Government Spending. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.
Stanley Woodward says the Justice Department must step in when it sees manipulation of commodity markets and says that is what it did in the egg case.
“The manipulation of prices in the commodities market is not a novel concept anymore, and it is incumbent upon the department when it sees the manipulation of commodity markets to step in,”
Woodward describes the department's action against the egg producers as stepping in against commodity-market manipulation, which condemns the conduct this case examines.
Role at the time: Associate Attorney General of the United States
Defended or excused
Statement summary
Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward said the Justice Department worked with Bluepoint Wind and Golden State Wind to reach settlements rather than continue what he described as protracted litigation.
“protracted litigation benefits neither, and I am proud to have helped facilitate today's historic deals that advance the President's Energy Dominance Agenda”
Read the official statement (opens in a new tab)Interior Announces Two Historic Agreements to Promote Affordable, Reliable Energy Production in the United States · U.S. Department of the Interior
Why we used this label
Woodward frames the settlements as the product of a legitimate litigation dispute the Justice Department resolved, defending the settlement process against claims that no real dispute existed to settle.
DOJ alleges coordinated bidding inflated egg-price benchmarks. Cal-Maine denies wrongdoing and price effects. The proposed consent judgment contains no admission, while separate debate concerns the conduct's economic importance and the remedy.
Interior paid TotalEnergies, Invenergy, and Bluepoint Wind more than $2.3 billion to cancel offshore wind leases in 2026. State attorneys general and members of Congress say the payments broke the Judgment Fund Act. Interior says the payments were lawful, voluntary refunds.
