Attorney General Pam Bondi Will Order Full Review Into Past Federal Cases Against President Trump

CNN Senior Legal Analyst and former federal prosecutor Elie Honig criticized one of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s first acts in office — ordering a review of criminal cases brought against President Donald Trump. Mediaite reported Wednesday that Honig said the move was not a good sign for the independence of the Justice Department. Bondi, formerly the Florida state attorney general, created a “weaponization working group” that will look at the Biden DOJ’s investigations into Trump. These investigations looked at Trump's role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and the charge that he took classified documents with him to Mar-a-Lago when he left office.

New Attorney General Pam Bondi on Wednesday issued a series of directives designed to overhaul a Justice Department that President Donald Trump says is biased against conservatives. Hours after she was sworn in at the White House, Bondi called for the creation of "weaponization working group" that will scrutinize the work of special counsel Jack Smith, who charged Trump in two criminal cases. The group will also review "unethical prosecutions" stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, among other things, according to the memo.

Bondi is issuing a memo warning, “When Justice Department attorneys refuse to faithfully carry out their role by, for example, refusing to advance good-faith arguments or declining to sign briefs, it undermines the constitutional order and deprives the President of the benefit of his lawyers,” and that “any Justice Department attorney who declines to sign a brief, refuses to advance good-faith arguments on behalf of the Trump administration, or otherwise delays or impedes the Justice Department’s mission will be subject to discipline and potentially termination.”