The problem with Pam Bondi

Hayes Brown, MSNBC - Upon taking office in February, Bondi made clear that there was no room for dissent among the Justice Department's lawyers. In a memo issued on her first day, federal lawyers were warned they "are expected to zealously advance, protect, and defend their client's interests" — those being Trump's interests, of course, not the American people's. Bondi has applied her maxim extremely literally, reportedly punishing government lawyers for being insufficiently full-throated in their support of Trump policies, either in court or behind closed doors, as the onetime firewall between the attorney general and White House collapses.

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