Pam Bondi Arrives at DOJ with a Flamethrower and a Checklist

by Jeff Childers

As predicted, new Attorney General Pam Bondi hit the ground running yesterday, sprinting out of the gate by issuing a record fourteen first-day orders within the Justice Department. ABC-7 New York ran one of the stories under the headline, “New AG Pam Bondi pauses funding to sanctuary cities, including New York City.”

 
That’s got to hurt. The 60-day pause is already bearing fruit. New York Mayor Eric Adams raced to get in front of cameras yesterday, and pledged to ignore a city ordinance requiring local police to refuse to cooperate with federal immigration officials. The Mayor said that he thinks the local law is wrong and should be changed, adding “I cannot have any city employee that would get in the way of them carrying out their job as a federal authority.”

Adams is right, of course, under the principle of federalism, national laws trump state or local laws. But the facts don’t bother some people.

Like some pro-criminal New Yorkers, who were furious. Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, probably a fake name, complained, “now we have a mayor who is more of an assistant to Donald Trump than a mayor for New York City.” State Senator Zellnor Myrie, also probably fake, whined “Instead of having a mayor willing to stand up to and protect, we have a mayor issuing guidance saying we will do whatever you want President Trump.”

In another order, AG Bondi rerouted DOJ resources from fighting “foreign election interference” to upholding immigration enforcement. Thank heavens. The Washington Post reported the story headlined, “New attorney general’s orders include dissolving teams focused on foreign influence.”

 
“Attorney General Pam Bondi,” the WaPo reported, “is moving swiftly to redirect the nation’s law enforcement resources toward enacting President Donald Trump’s agenda of pressing dramatic change from the Biden administration.”

Good. Dramatic change is, after all, what we voted for.

Even more encouragingly, the new Attorney General instructed the DOJ to use “all available criminal statutes” to target undocumented migrants, drug and human smuggling cartels, and local officials who interfere with criminal enforcement efforts.

It might be about to get real up in here.

Another first-day Bondi order established a “Weaponization Working Group,” tasked with reviewing the work of specially abled counsel, sorry, I mean special counsel Jack Smith, and all the investigators who worked on the January 6th riot, and the New York prosecutors who brought the criminal and civil cases against President Trump, his family and his businesses during the past four years.

They were right to think they were going to need lawyers. The hunters have become the cockroaches on pest control day.

The Working Group’s members were told to “identify instances where a department’s or agency’s conduct appears to have been designed to achieve political objectives or other improper aims rather than pursuing justice or legitimate governmental objectives.” The group was also ordered to investigate other complaints by Republicans, such as the DOJ’s unfairly targeting of conservatives, such as through prosecutions of pro-life protestors, raids of parents who scolded local school boards, and charges against people who were “legitimate whistleblowers.”

In this morning’s final example (of many others), AG Bondi directed the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division to focus on ways to eliminate and penalize “illegal DEI” policies in the private and education sectors. She also wants DEI rooted out of the DOJ. “All department guidance that encouraged or permitted race- or sex-based preferences as a method of compliance with federal civil rights are rescinded and will be replaced with new guidance affirming that equal treatment under the law,” Bondi wrote.

Bondi demanded “zealous advocacy” of the president’s agenda from the Justice Department’s 10,000 lawyers. She also warned them that putting their personal political beliefs above the department’s priorities “will be subject to discipline and potentially termination.” So.

Jane Bondi.