Pam Bondi Made the Same Statement Trump Claims Is Sedition

Last year, as an attorney for the America First Policy Institute, a conservative think tank, Bondi filed a brief with the Supreme Court in which he wrote: “Military officers are required not to carry out unlawful orders.”

“The military would not carry out a patently illegal order from the President to kill non-military targets. Indeed, the military is required not to do so,” Bondi wrote in the brief, filed to support Trump in his efforts to convince the Supreme Court to grant him immunity from prosecution for attempting to overturn the 2020 election.

Bondi was actually trying to cover for one of Trump’s lawyers in January 2024, who was asked by Federal Appeals Court Judge Florence Y. Pan: “Could a president who ordered SEAL Team 6 to assassinate a political rival, who has not been impeached, be subject to criminal prosecution?”