Bondi, Blanche, and the Future of DOJ
Pam Bondi’s legacy, like her portrait, is in the trash.
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Former Attorney General Pam Bondi’s official Department of Justice portrait went into a trash can just a few hours after she was fired by President Trump. The act was both a physical and figurative portrayal of a legacy destined to molder amidst the remains of the other soulless sycophants she joins on the Trump trash heap.
While Bondi may be done with the great institution she tried to topple, America should not be done with her, her potential replacements, nor with whoever ultimately succeeds her. The DOJ’s future depends on us relentlessly demanding accountability through our lawmakers, the courts, and with loud public denunciations of unsuitable candidates already in the mix to take a hatchet to what’s left of our Justice Department.
Bondi quickly dismantled the all-important wall that is supposed to separate a president and his politics from the prosecutors and protocols of a neutral DOJ. Perhaps no more illustrative depiction of DOJ’s subservience to the man in the oval office is the huge banner of Trump’s visage that Bondi permitted to hang from the Justice edifice. It’s a graven image that acts as a daily reminder to DOJ’s public servants that they toil not for the people but for one man.
Yet there was far more to Bondi’s Trump worship than the idolatrous banner. As noted in USA Today by Dace Potas:
In 2025, three federal prosecutors resigned after they were asked to drop the case against former New York Mayor (and Trump ally) Eric Adams.
Several very thin cases have been brought against Trump’s political opponents, including former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
The DOJ has even pursued a case transparently designed to pressure Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell into lowering interest rates against his better judgment.
Bondi’s DOJ also tried to pursue Trump adversary Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) for mortgage fraud, despite being told by the Maryland U.S. Attorney that there was insufficient evidence. A long list of attempted political prosecutions included six members of Congress who were charged simply for reminding American troops to follow only lawful orders.