Another in an ongoing series.
Dear Senator;
I am a resident of Pennsylvania and a constituent of yours and I'd like you to answer a question or two.
I'd like to turn, again, to AG Pam Bondi - given that you voted to confirm her as head of the Justice Department.
The Miami Herald is reporting:
During her Senate confirmation hearing for U.S. Attorney General, Pam Bondi tip-toed around whether she would stand up to President Donald Trump’s pressure on the Justice Department, promising only in a broad sense that “politics has to be taken out of this system.”
Since her confirmation in February, Bondi has earned the praise of conservative Republicans for loyally following Trump’s agenda while drawing the wrath of critics on the Democratic spectrum who say she has politicized the Justice Department on issues ranging from illegal immigration to public corruption.
Now, a liberal- and moderate-leaning coalition of about 70 law professors, attorneys and former Florida Supreme Court justices is attacking Bondi’s record in an ethics complaint filed on Thursday with the Florida Bar. They accuse Bondi of violating her ethical duties as U.S. Attorney General, saying she has committed “serious professional misconduct that threatens the rule of law and the administration of justice.”
Specifically:
According to the Florida Bar complaint, Bondi’s “principal ethical violation arises from her perversion of the concept of ‘zealous advocacy’ into an overriding campaign, individually and through Messrs. Blanche, Bove and Martin, to coerce and intimidate the lawyers they supervise into violating their ethical obligations.”
In each of the three examples, Bondi and her senior team “ordered Department lawyers to do things those lawyers were ethically forbidden from doing, under threat of suspension or termination—or fired them for not having done so,” the complaint says.
In her confirmation hearings, The Herald adds, Bondi also refused "to say that Trump lost the 2020 election."
And yet you voted to confirm her.
Any comments on any of this? Do you think AG Pam Bondi is guilty of any of the ethics violations outlined in that complaint?
I'll await your answer, Senator.
As always, I'll post whatever response I get from Senator Fetterman
