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Miles Archer

(22,114 posts)
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 10:05 PM 19 hrs ago

Bondi slammed for attempt to "inflict greater reputational harm on people who have not been convicted of a crime"

A federal judge expressed fury on Wednesday that Attorney General Pam Bondi had gone on social media and released arrest pictures of protesters charged with assaulting federal agents.

According to The New York Times, "In a Minneapolis federal court where 16 protesters were charged on Wednesday with assaulting immigration agents, Judge Dulce J. Foster said she was 'deeply disturbed' that Attorney General Pam Bondi had published photographs of some of the defendants on social media. Judge Foster said images of people who are presumed innocent should not be shared. 'This conduct is not something that the court condones,' she said."

While mug shots are often disclosed to the public in state arrests, federal arrests have much stricter rules around the disclosure of that material, under the logic that the Justice Department should not go out of its way to inflict greater reputational harm on people who have not been convicted of a crime.

https://www.rawstory.com/pam-bondi-judge/

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