And will take generations to put it back together.

“If confirmed, I will work to restore confidence and integrity to the Department of Justice — and each of its components,” Pam Bondi vowed during her confirmation hearing in January. “Under my watch, the partisan weaponization of the Department of Justice will end. America must have one tier of justice for all.”

But since her confirmation on February 4, Attorney General Pam Bondi has done exactly the opposite, weaponizing the DOJ against Trump’s political enemies and withdrawing criminal investigations of his allies. The tone was set on her first full day, when she fired off an all-staff memo threatening to fire anyone who raised ethical or legal objections to advancing frivolous arguments in court.

Literal Mob Rule:

The Civil Rights Division, which once protected victims of discrimination, is helmed by yet another former Trump lawyer, Harmeet Dhillon, a culture warrior who brags about outsourcing her prosecutorial discretion to Twitter randos. Per the Wall Street Journal: Harmeet Dhillon, head of the civil-rights division at the Justice Department, wakes up around 6 a.m. and begins her workday scrolling through X, searching for claims of discrimination. A lot of them, Dhillon said, regard universities. After spotting “a list of new horrors,” she said, “I text my deputies, and we assign cases, and we get cranking.”

  • Bonus@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Nurture vs. Nature her brother is in on it so one has to assume the family is horrendous.

    Indeed, lobbying the administration can be quite lucrative, as Pam’s brother Brad is finding out. He currently represents Carolina Amesty, a former Florida legislator who allegedly scammed half a million dollars in covid relief funds by filing loan applications of [sic] behalf of businesses that either did not exist or were not as she described them. After filing a criminal complaint in January, the government had 30 days to indict Amesty. But since then, Brad Bondi and the DOJ have filed four requests for an extension “in the interests of justice.” Whether this is an attempt to work out a settlement or run out the clock is not entirely clear, but there’s no mistaking that Bondi is selling his services as a conduit to the federal agency run by his sister.