"On her first day in office, Attorney General Pam Bondi delivered a warning to Justice Department lawyers: Refusing to zealously advocate for the president's position - no matter how unethical or contrary to law - was a firing offense. A year later, morale has cratered and her agency is a hollowed out shell."
"The problem reached a crisis point this winter thanks to the Department of Homeland Security's dogged insistence that its creative reinterpretations of settled law allow it to indefinitely detain any immigrant without a green card. Hundreds of judges have said they can't, and yet district courts are still buckling under the weight of hundreds of identical habeas petitions."
"Just this past week, courts in New Jersey, West Virginia, and Minnesota warned that they're going to start holding DHS and prosecutors in contempt. And in California, Judge Sunshine Sykes was incensed by a leaked memo from Chief Immigration Judge Teresa Riley instructing immigration courts to disregard district court rulings."
Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a directive on her first day requiring Justice Department lawyers to zealously advocate for the president's position without ethical or legal constraints, threatening termination for refusal. This policy has devastated DOJ morale and recruitment, forcing the agency to recruit online. The crisis intensified when the Department of Homeland Security pursued aggressive reinterpretations of immigration law, detaining immigrants indefinitely without legal basis. Federal judges across multiple states have rejected these practices, with hundreds of habeas petitions flooding district courts. DHS routinely ignores court orders, sometimes releasing detainees far from home without documents. Multiple judges have threatened contempt charges against DHS and prosecutors. Bondi now seeks to assume control over state bar complaints against DOJ attorneys to shield them from disciplinary action.
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