Bondi, Blanche, and the Future of DOJ

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Former Attorney General Pam Bondi’s official Department of Justice portrait went into a trash can just a few hours after she was fired by President Trump. The act was both a physical and figurative portrayal of a legacy destined to molder amidst the remains of the other soulless sycophants she joins on the Trump trash heap.

While Bondi may be done with the great institution she tried to topple, America should not be done with her, her potential replacements, nor with whoever ultimately succeeds her. The DOJ’s future depends on us relentlessly demanding accountability through our lawmakers, the courts, and with loud public denunciations of unsuitable candidates already in the mix to take a hatchet to what’s left of our Justice Department.

Bondi quickly dismantled the all-important wall that is supposed to separate a president and his politics from the prosecutors and protocols of a neutral DOJ. Perhaps no more illustrative depiction of DOJ’s subservience to the man in the oval office is the huge banner of Trump’s visage that Bondi permitted to hang from the Justice edifice. It’s a graven image that acts as a daily reminder to DOJ’s public servants that they toil not for the people but for one man.

Yet there was far more to Bondi’s Trump worship than the idolatrous banner. As noted in USA Today by Dace Potas:

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1. MaddowBlog-Acting AG Blanche tries and fails to justify Trump's control over the Justice Department

It fell to the acting attorney general to assure the public that it can have confidence in the DOJ. He instead showed how little has changed.

Acting AG Blanche tries and fails to justify Trump’s control over the Justice Department

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In recent months, Americans have seen Donald Trump’s DOJ make awful mistakes, some devastating and some amateurish. The White House has usurped control and has set the department’s credibility on fire. The DOJ is acting like Trump’s personal law firm, as key personnel have been redirected from core responsibilities to pursue the president’s pet endeavors. It’s been weaponized to an almost cartoonish degree and is losing key cases. Once-rare mass resignations are becoming far more common, contributing to serious staffing challenges and “crisis” conditions in prosecutorial offices....

But most of all, Blanche tried — and failed — to justify Trump’s control over the Justice Department.

Link to tweet

“President Trump has made no secret of the fact that he wants to see his perceived political enemies prosecuted,” a reporter said. “So now that you’re in this position, how are you going to balance that relentless pressure with this administration’s promise to end the weaponization of this department?”

The acting attorney general made no real effort to contest the premise. “We have thousands of ongoing investigations and prosecutions going on in this country right now,” Blanche replied. “And it is true that some of them involve men, women and entities that the president in the past has had issues with and believes should be investigated. That is his right, and indeed it is his duty to do that, meaning to lead this country.”....

So, as the acting AG sees it, Trump feels obligated to direct federal law enforcement to go after his perceived political enemies, which Blanche sees as entirely appropriate. That endorsement only reinforces concerns about the degree to which the DOJ has been weaponized.

Blanche went on to explain that he believes it’s his job to “execute the president’s agenda and priorities,” he rejected the idea of a post-Watergate “firewall” between the White House and criminal investigations, and he hoped White House officials would make criminal referrals to the DOJ.

The DOJ does NOT represent trump personally. The DOJ represents the people of the United States. I am shocked that Blanch pass the ethics part of the bar exam