The Sickening Image That Will Haunt Pam Bondi the Rest of Her Life
The 60 days passed at the beginning of this month and, shockingly, nothing happened. Then, as fate would have it, on Monday, three days before Smith’s public testimony, the issue of Volume Two came back into the news when a Trump lawyer filed a motion asking Cannon to permanently block the Justice Department, “and its current, former and future officers, agents, officials and employees” (note: future officers!), to make the second volume public.
Two points here. First, we have the rather strange spectacle of Trump, as Politico’s Kyle Cheney put it on Bluesky, “making his case in his personal capacity against the Justice Department he runs.” But of course the key word in the motion, as noted above, is “future.” If Cannon accepts this motion and a Democrat wins the White House in 2028, even this future attorney general will not be allowed to release Volume II.
Second, about Trump’s lawyer. We saw the basket of deplorables that Trump hired to defend himself or his government in court: Alina Habba, illegally installed as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey, who resigned after a court disqualified her; Todd Blanche, still number two at Justice, famous for his softball interview with Ghislaine Maxwell and for having defended his transfer to a more comfortable prison; Emil Bove, who while at the Justice Department ordered the sordid dismissal of all charges against then-New York City Mayor Eric Adams, leading to nearly a dozen resignations.
