Donald Trump has sacked Pam Bondi as his attorney general, but don’t get too excited, because the next one is going to be just as bad, probably worse.
In the interim, we know for sure that this will be the case, because Trump’s personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, will be the acting AG until the regime can get a new candidate confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
The names I’m seeing floated include Lee Zeldin, the current EPA administrator, and Utah U.S. Sen. Mike Lee.
Both are Trump loyalists; neither are pretty blondes, though Bondi, at 60, aged out of being an apple in Trump’s eye decades ago.
Not sure what she was hired for, aside from her penchant for incompetence, and her perfect willingness to use the machinery of the Department of Justice to go after Trump’s rivals, and to protect him from the Epstein files.
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On both counts, she failed – though, in her defense, not that she deserves one, not her fault.
No matter how hard anybody Trump wants in the AG job will try, they’ve got to convince judges to subvert the Constitution – and not even the three that Trump appointed to the Supreme Court appear willing to do his bidding on that point anymore.
“Pam Bondi may go down as one of the worst AGs in history,” said Suhas Subramanyam, a Northern Virginia Democrat who is a member of the House Oversight Committee, in a statement released on Thursday. “She openly violated the law repeatedly and aided one of the most corrupt administrations in modern history. She spent most of her time trying to weaponize the agency against anyone the resident didn’t like, and she fired countless career prosecutors for simply following the law and upholding the Constitution. I had called for her impeachment, but this works, too.”
The more important point that Subramanyam made:
“The Senate should reject the confirmation of any replacement who continues this administration’s lawlessness.”
Ball’s in your court there, U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., who had this to say on the Bondi firing:
“This is bigger than one official. President Trump has repeatedly treated the Department of Justice like a political weapon — pressuring prosecutors, rewarding loyalty over independence, and using the machinery of federal law enforcement to pursue vengeance against his perceived enemies while shielding his allies from accountability. That pattern includes efforts to nationalize voting through an executive order that has been widely challenged as an unlawful attempt to override state authority, as well as the Fulton County raid tied to the president’s obsession with losing the 2020 election.
“This kind of abuse subverts the rule of law and corrodes the Justice Department’s ability to deliver impartial justice,” Warner said. “When the Justice Department is distracted by politics and stripped of its credibility, it can’t do its core job of keeping Americans safe. Americans deserve a Justice Department that is actually focused on delivering justice, not on serving a president’s agenda of personal and political self-interest.”
Warner, and also Tim Kaine, D-Va., voted “no” on Bondi as the Senate went 54-46 to confirm her as AG last year.
John Fetterman, D-Pa., was the lone Senate Democrat to vote “yes” on Bondi.
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