Bondi made her first move and it’s purely about vengeance. Trump must be so pleased:
Attorney General Pam Bondi spent her first day on the job Wednesday redirecting the Justice Department’s significant law enforcement authority toward addressing President Donald Trump’s grievances with the agency, making her allegiance to his agenda clear in a series of strongly worded directives.
Despite pledging during her confirmation hearing that “politics will not play a part” in her decision-making, Bondi created a “Weaponization Working Group” to review instances of what she described as “politicized justice” – starting with the federal criminal cases brought against Trump by special counsel Jack Smith. She also pledged to examine what she alleged was federal cooperation in the criminal and civil investigations of Trump in New York — even though they were carried out by state authorities, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Bondi ended the federal moratorium on the death penalty, paused federal justice grant funding for sanctuary cities and demanded “zealous advocacy” of the president’s agenda from the department’s more than 10,000 lawyers.
“Any attorney who because of their personal political views or judgments declines to sign a brief or appear in court, refuses to advance good-faith arguments on behalf of the administration, or otherwise delays or impedes the Department’s mission will be subject to discipline and potentially termination, consistent with applicable law,” Bondi wrote in one directive she signed Wednesday.
All those “norms” Merrick Garland protected are now in the rubbish can. That worked out well.
All I can say is that I’m very glad Joe Biden pardoned his family and the J6 Committee members. Anyone who believes that doing that somehow empowers Trump or that it was unnecessary is a fool. The only reason Biden himself is safe is because of the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling to protect Trump.