Bondi, Blanche, and the Future of DOJ [View all]

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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