The Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies to a sub-comity of the Senate credits on June 25 in Washington, DC
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The Attorney General Pam Bondi is expected to testify to the congress on Tuesday in the midst of the currency concerns that the Ministry of Justice under its leaders is being armed to tackle the perceived enemies of President Trump.
Bondi’s appearance before the Senate’s judicial committee comes less than two weeks after the ministry obtained an indictment against the former director of the FBI, James Comey, following the president’s public requests.
Comey, who faces a charges of false statements and a chief of obstruction of justice resulting from the testimony of the Congress in 2020, is expected to be arrested on Wednesday before the Federal Court in Alexandria, Virginia.
Comey’s accusation act – and the machinations that have led there – are the last and undoubtedly the most worrying, the example of what many legal observers emphasize as the politicization and the armament of the department on leap.
Since she took the bar in February, the department has been almost constant troubles. Bondi and his best lieutenants dismissed prosecutors who worked on cases of riot of the Capitol or investigated Trump and pushed senior FBI officials.
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The public integrity section, which continues public corruption, has been almost entirely emptied, while more than 70% of the lawyers in the Civil Rights Division also left.
During his confirmation hearing, Bondi echoes Trump’s claims that the Ministry of Justice under President Biden was armed against Trump and the conservatives more widely.
She swore that it would change under her direction.
“Partisanary, the armament will have disappeared,” she told legislators. “America will have a level of justice for all.”
In an appearance on Fox News after Comey was charged, she told Sean Hannity: “Armament has ended”.
“We have clarified this very clearly,” she said. “Whether you are a former FBI director, whether you are the head of an old Intel community, whether you are a current state or a local elected official, whether you are billionaire financing organizations to try to keep Donald Trump out of power, everything is on the table. We will investigate you and we will end the armament. There will not be a two -level justice system.”
Traditionally, the Ministry of Justice enjoys a certain degree of independence from the White House, in particular in surveys and prosecution to isolate them from partisan policy.
But criticisms say that the firewall has been bulldozer since Trump returned to functions and put leaps and other loyalists in the best jobs of the Doj. Last month, Trump openly ordered Bondi to continue his perceived political opponents, notably the Prosecutor General of New York Letitia James, the Democratic Senator of California Adam Schiff, member of the Judicial Committee of the Senate, and Comey.
“We can no longer delay, this kills our reputation and our credibility,” said Trump in an article on social networks addressed to Bondi. “Justice must be done now !!!”
Shortly before this position, the president expelled the best federal prosecutor in the Virginia Oriental District, Erik Siebert, a Trump career prosecutor hit the role earlier this year. Siebert’s office conducted investigations on James and Comey, and Siebert had expressed his concerns about the strength of evidence in both cases.
Trump then installed Lindsey Halligan, a former insurance lawyer and assistant from the White House without prosecution experience, as an American lawyer to replace Siebert. She asked and obtained an indictment against Comey, canceling the career prosecutors who questioned the strength of the case.
After Comey was charged, Bondi posted on social networks: “No one is above the law. The indictment of today reflects the commitment of this Ministry of Justice to hold those who abuse positions of power responsible for having deceived the American people. We will follow the facts in this case.”
Since his accusation act, several career prosecutors as part of the American lawyer’s office have been dismissed.
A letter signed by nearly 300 former employees of the career DoJ and released on the eve of the Bondi hearing indicates that the ministry does not respect the rule of law, assures the country and protect civil rights.
“The administration takes a hammer to other longtime works that the ministry has done to protect communities and the rule of law,” also indicates the letter. “We call on these leaders to reverse the course – to remember the oath that we have all lent to maintaining the Constitution – and to adhere to the legal railings and the institutional standards on which our judicial system is based.”
The letter has been published by Justice Connection, a group that supports MJ employees.
The Doj did not respond to the request for NPR comments on the letter.
