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.”

    • Optional@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      You mean in the year and a half he had two of the biggest cases in American legal history? One of them with the most obstructionist judge possible?

      You’re right, the DoJ totally failed the bourgeois. Or was failed by the bourgeois. Or whatever.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        You mean in the year and a half he had two of the biggest cases in American legal history?

        Sam Bankman-Fried went from “investigated” to “in jail” inside nine months. The entire OJ Simpson Trial only lasted eight months. The time between the murder, the failed criminal case, and the successful civil suit, and the conviction was less than three years. Trump’s only been in office for six months and he’s already taken 20 different cases before the SCOTUS.

        One of them with the most obstructionist judge possible?

        Seems like an experienced veteran DOJ attorney would have known to file the case in a more friendly venue. But I guess a man that loses 78% of his court cases is just too damned slick for the Garland DOJ.

        You’re right, the DoJ totally failed the bourgeois. Or was failed by the bourgeois. Or whatever.

        Almost as though they were set up to lose by an incompetent chief executive and his worthless cronies.

        • Optional@lemmy.world
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          2 days ago

          Golly you seem to know a lot about the federal prosecutors office. Maybe you could run for something and tell everyone to get it right so there will never be any mistakes anymore.

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            Maybe you could run for something

            Sadly, I don’t have any billionaires willing to put up seven digits to stack my campaign.

            But hey, better luck with whatever slop the next election cycle feeds you, I guess.