Huntington Beach’s popular, and controversial, former city attorney is resigning from his position in the U.S. Department of Justice. Michael Gates served 10 months in the Trump Administration as a deputy assistant attorney general in the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division. He posted his resignation letter, dated Nov. 8, on Facebook over the weekend.

Gates told LAist he was proud of his work in Washington D.C., in particular with helping to file eight lawsuits seeking voter registration files, including against Orange County . But he said he missed his family and Huntington Beach.

“Honestly I just want to come home,” he told LAist. “It’s hard not to be in the most beautiful city in the world.”

Gates said he will be rejoining the city attorney’s office as the chief assistant city attorn

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