It’s Dangerous When Pam Bondi Is Under Pressure To Be More MAGA

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Look for: Bondi is in self-service mode

The prospect that the Attorney General appointed Trump, Director of the FBI, and his higher assistant could be trained on Jeffrey Epstein’s conspiracy theories hurt me.

None of them are fit for the office. They ransacked the Ministry of Justice. They are impatient to mistreat their offices to cook the favor of the White House. But at that time, that was not enough to get them out of the city. What could be enough is not to properly perform one of the ritual dances of Maga worship. Suddenly, the Attorney General Pam Bondi is on the outings, with his two best FBI subordinates threatening to turn against her and join the crowd.

For those of us outside, it is not only confusing but annoying. Watching President Trump try to cancel Magi Mob is surreal.

What is most important in this whole sordid episode is probably the length that leaps will consolidate its position in the world of Maga. It seems perfectly arranged and entirely capable of committing new transgressions of the rule of law in order to demonstrate its good faith Maga and to consider the requirements so that it is dismissed.

It is difficult to analyze which of the latest Bondi outrages was already in preparation and which are self -protection. But attribute national political coverage in recent days with at least grateful that there could be a link between the return of unusual and unusual Boj as confirming the criminal surveys of John Brennan and James Comey.

In addition, Bondi A:

• A licensed 20 other DoJ employees, including prosecutors, support staff and American marshals, who were involved in TRUMP proceedings of the Jack Smith special council
• Licensed without explanation the highest official of the Ethics of the Doj, Joseph Tirrell, a career employee who had been in the department for almost 20 years
• Abandoned the accusations against a Utah plastic surgeon who had become a darling Maga, even if the selection of the jury was already underway for a trial for accusations, he sold false COVID-19 vaccine cards.

The traditional tools of the Ministry of Justice are now only balls to be used for self-service by the Attorney General and finally by the President. We are so deeply not normal.

Large week for the appointment of Emil Bove

Trump’s former personal lawyer, Emil Bove, who directed some of the worst transgressions of the Doj during the first months of Trump II, should obtain a vote from the Senate’s Judicial Committee this week on his appointment before the Federal Court of Appeal:

• CBS News obtained the 165 -page questionnaire that Bove submitted to the committee and found that he had refused to exclude the third term for Trump or to denounce the attack on January 6.
• Just security carefully creates the internal documents of the DoJ published by the lawyer lawyer who has become a lawyer Erez Rebeni and examine how they involve Bove in violation of the American district judge James Boasberg in the original case of extraterrestrial enemies – conduct the judge has already found a probable cause to judge the court of the court.

Speaking of the conclusion of Boasberg’s contempt in court …

We have arrived over three months since a three -threaded panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals put Boasberg’s contempt on ice with an administrative suspension on April 18. It is an extraordinary delay. It is not only delayed accounting in the Alien Enemies Act case, but it has made it possible for the Trump administration of judicial orders in a range of other cases.

Listen

I joined Greg Sargent Friday on the Podcast Daily Blast where we talked, among other things, how bad things are in the Trump Doj and the overall model of authoritarian climbing: the backlash against an authoritarian decision generates more extreme authoritarian movements to suffocate the counterpou. Rinse and repeat.

‘The proof is not credible’

I spent three -day games last week at the court in the Abrego Garcia case and I tried to capture in an article that I wrote on Friday the most subtle and less obvious means than Doj Trump continues to make orders of the judge and show contempt for his procedure.

For a faster but always substantial reaction to the audience on Friday, a good thread of the lawyer Joe Dudek:

In other news of mass deportation …

• On Friday, in a decision, the American district judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong blocked the repression of large-scale immigration of the Trump administration in Los Angeles.
• The Trump administration gave a green light to provide six -hour notice to migrants before being expelled to third countries, even if the countries have not assured that migrants will be immune to persecution or torture, according to a government memo obtained by WAPO.
• The four children born in the United States – 9 -year -old triplets and a 7 -year -old son – an apparently undocumented woman remained in federal detention in Washington for more than two weeks.

Usaid’s death

Political scientist at the University of Michigan, Don Moynihan, is deeply on the unprecedented destruction of the Trump administration of the main vehicle for American foreign aid:

The destruction of the USAID had less to do with the actions of the agency than with the broader context of an American presidency which adopted an authoritarian approach, focused on the conspiracy and populist of governance. USAID is perhaps the first case of a government agency killed by conspiracy theories.

Time sign

On January 6, rioters are now the city toast during local gop events across the country.

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