"Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to testify Wednesday on Capitol Hill where she's expected to face questions about the Justice Department's targeting of President Trump's political foes and its handling of the Epstein files. Bondi's appearance before the House Judiciary Committee comes one year into her tenure atop the Justice Department, a tumultuous period marked by a striking departure from the traditions and norms that have guided the department for decades."
"Since taking the helm, Bondi has overseen the firing of career prosecutors and FBI officials who worked on Capitol riot cases or Trump investigations, investigated and prosecuted prominent opponents of the president, and dropped prosecutions of his allies. The changes also extend to the department's workforce. The section that prosecutes public corruption has been gutted; the Civil Rights Division, which protects the Constitutional rights of all Americans, has seen a mass exodus of career attorneys;"
"In her public appearances, Bondi, who is a former Florida attorney general, has defended the department's actions, and sought to tout what she says are major accomplishments going after cartels and violent crime, and helping in the administration's immigration enforcement. She also says she's made "tremendous progress" towards ending what she says was the department's weaponization in recent years against Trump and conservatives."
Attorney General Pam Bondi will testify before the House Judiciary Committee about alleged targeting of President Trump's political opponents and the Justice Department's handling of the Epstein files. In one year she oversaw the firing of career prosecutors and FBI officials tied to Capitol riot and Trump investigations, prosecutions of prominent opponents, and the dropping of charges against allies. The department's public-corruption section has been gutted, the Civil Rights Division has seen a mass exodus, and some U.S. Attorney offices have faced resignations. Bondi touts actions against cartels, violent crime, and immigration enforcement and says she ended the department's weaponization. Biden-era DOJ officials deny politicization and point to prosecutions of Democrats and Hunter Biden.
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