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<\/p>\nPam Bondi (Photo by Joe Raedle\/Getty)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Well, there\u2019s no forthcoming report on Trump\u2019s latest Attorney General pick<\/a> suggesting she paid 17-year-olds for sexual contact<\/a>. In the year of our lord 2025, that actually qualifies as an improvement! But that doesn\u2019t mean that Pam Bondi is teed up to be an amazing AG.<\/p>\n In fact, attorneys are raising some pretty serious alarm bells about a potential AG Bondi. Bondi is the former Florida Attorney General and worked as Trump\u2019s personal attorney before getting the nod to take over the Department of Justice. As former S.D.N.Y. judge and current counsel at Boies Schiller Flexner Shira Scheindlin noted to Law.com,<\/a> it\u2019s concerning Trump is consistently elevating *his* attorneys to government roles (in addition to Bondi, he\u2019s also nominating his former personal attorneys Todd Blanche and John Sauer to top DOJ leadership positions). \u201cI\u2019m worried about their [DOJ leadership\u2019s] independence from the president, because the attorney general is supposed to be independent, not the president\u2019s personal lawyer. They\u2019re supposed to be representing the people of the United States in writ large. And I am worried that, given it\u2019s Bondi and Blanche and Sauer, all of them have been his personal lawyers,\u201d said Scheindlin.<\/p>\n Danya Perry of litigation boutique Perry Law contrasted Bondi\u2019s fealty to Trump\u2019s personal agenda relative to her predecessors, \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of reason to believe that [Trump] vetted her specifically because there is so much alignment and will not exercise the kind of independence that he really has very aggressively criticized in the past from Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr.\u201d<\/p>\n Georgetown University Law Center professor Erica Hashimoto echoed those concerns saying it is \u201cmuch less likely that there will be that same kind of separation and independence\u201d between Bondi and Trump. And we can expect Bondi\u2019s history as a lobbyist to impact her prosecutorial agenda too.<\/p>\n \u201c[Bondi] has been working for the past five years as a lobbyist and for essentially big companies, and so she is used to arguing that those companies should not be prosecuted or fined or anything else. I think that will affect how she prioritizes things for the Department of Justice,\u201d said Hashimoto, adding the DOJ priorities will likely be \u201cmuch more about individual criminal prosecutions, as opposed to the more corporate\/business types of investigations and prosecutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n We\u2019re getting a pretty clear image of what Bondi\u2019s reign as AG might look like, and it isn\u2019t great.<\/p>\n She’s not as problematic as Matt Gaetz, which is something, I guess. The post Pam Bondi Is The Ultimate Trump Loyalist, And Lawyers Say That\u2019s A Problem appeared first on Above the Law. Pam Bondi (Photo by Joe Raedle\/Getty) Well, there\u2019s no forthcoming report on Trump\u2019s latest Attorney General pick suggesting she paid 17-year-olds for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":100305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law","category-legal_matters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Pam-Bondi-RIjww1-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1987&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast<\/a>, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her<\/a> with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter @Kathryn1<\/a>\u00a0or Mastodon @[email\u00a0protected].<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"