Pam Bondi slapped with ethics complaint by ex-Florida Supreme Court justices
By: Matthew Chapman (Raw Story)
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President Donald Trump's attorney general, Pam Bondi, has been hit with an ethical misconduct complaint filed at the Florida State Bar, Florida Politics reported on Thursday.
The complaint, reported Jesse Scheckner, "comes from some 70 law professionals, including former Florida Supreme Court Justices Barbara Pariente, James Perry and Peggy Quince."
It accuses Bondi of a systematic pattern of demanding lawyers employed by the Justice Department commit ethics violations on behalf of "zealous advocacy" for the Trump administration's policy goals, and either terminating or forcing the resignation of those who refuse to do so.
Among the incidents listed in the complaint are the resignation of Denise Cheung, a criminal division investigator who refused to investigate whether a Biden administration-era contract was unlawfully awarded due to a lack of evidence; Erez Reuvani, a lawyer who was terminated for advising the DOJ to facilitate the return of Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia after he was deported despite a court order prohibiting it; and the flood of prosecutors in the Southern District of New York who resigned rather than follow Bondi's orders to drop federal bribery charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.
Bondi has faced multiple other bar complaints since being appointed to head up the Justice Department, including one filed by California Reps. Dave Min and Mike Levin.
DOJ chief of staff Chad Mizelle issued an adversarial response to the news, saying, "This third vexatious attempt [to complain to the state bar] will fail to do anything other than prove that the signatories have less intelligence — and independent thought — than sheep."
Before being appointed to DOJ, Bondi served as an impeachment defense lawyer for Trump, and before that was attorney general of Florida, where she also faced ethics questions over her decision to drop a state investigation into Trump's fake university scam at the same time Trump's now-defunct charitable foundation made a donation to a political group supporting her.
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This would be the same Pam Bondi that just today Trump tasked with investigating the Biden administration.
The same DOJ that is trying to claw back $820 million in already approved and distributed grants supporting law enforcement groups while announcing they aren't interested in police reforms, only their Trump appointed missions.
TSA is to discontinue "Quiet Skies " program that allows air Marshalls to fly as additional security because te current administration thinks it's spying on the public.
no bfd to the private jet set ...
Today the DOJ is suing a Palestinian owned coffee shop for having drinks named after PLO leaders.
Isn't the First Amendment the first thing a lawyer studies in law school,
seems that Pam only remembers the fascist version.
Which coffee shop is that?
Oh.. The DOJ is suing a coffee shop for refusing to serve Jews. I'm not surprised democrats are so upset and screaming fascism
I'm not surprised to see you comment as if all democrats feel that way.
Just going by the progressive commenters here calling the DOJ fascist for suing a coffee shop for denying service to jews.
But yet they had no problem suing a cake maker for not baking specific cakes against his beliefs.
Many on the left absolutely do not understand the word "hypocrisy"
I highlighted the important words to help you understand the reference to fascism.
For years too many to count, cooks and restaurant owners have been making political statements with the names of sandwiches and dinner plates and drinks, but let a Palestinian do it? Ooooh we can't have that in Pam's world eh?
Nor the word fascist. Claiming the DOJ is fascist for filing a civil rights lawsuit over denial of service to jewish people might be the most egregious misuse yet.
SCOTUS found that a Colorado baker could not be forced to bake a cake that conflicted with his religious beliefs
What if the Palestinian coffee shop owner makes the same argument?
That "logic" apparently cuts in both directions.
The actual lawsuit alleges they are in breach of the civil rights act for refusing service to Jews. It is not premised on the name of a drink, and its dishonest to claim otherwise.
you shouldn't get your news from truncated clips on tv edited by partisan hacks.
What did the jewish customer ask the terrorist supporter to do that violates his religion?
This is the best advice you can offer after posting dozens of excerpts of opinions from "Twitter/X" as factual?
Maybe bugsy was right about the definition of hypocrisy?
That's not what they ruled. They ruled that the State of Colorado had acted inappropriately and persecuted that particular business unfairly. They made no ruling on the broader topic of discrimination laws.
What do you imagine "the same argument" would be?
Jack Philips did not refuse to serve gay people. He refused to make them a wedding cake. If the Palestinian coffee shop owner refuses to serve Jews, that's not the same thing. If he refuses to supply coffee catering to a "Death to Palestine" rally, that seems a perfectly reasonable thing.
TO go to the actual document at issue rather than relying on a truncated clip posted by a far left hack? Yes. It keeps you from having to rely on silly personal attacks to deflect, like you did here:
advice you can offer after posting dozens of excerpts of opinions from "Twitter/X" as factual?
Sorry, I thought Bugsy actually knew what he was talking about in 1.1.8 /s
That will teach me /s
So if his Islamic religious views are to actually kill Jews on sight but he simply compromises by kicking out the two guys wearing Star of David hats...
never mind
I suppose in three years the next President will have the Mayor of NY arrested as previously charged for real crimes
and will pardon the LA "rioters" on day one.
while they try to rebuild the federal government, NOOA and two dozen other agencies.
At least rail traffic will be safe. /s
*eyeroll*
Good idea.
She has no ethics. I hope she gets shamed very badly and has to pay a huge fine and then loses her law license
her achilles heel is her intimate association with the church of scientology ...
Rest assured, she was definitely extremely well vetted to be the US Attorney General. More sour grapes by losing lefty lawyers.
By who, the Federalist Society that Trump has gone to war with or by the whiner himself?
…and second choice to (ahem) Matt Gaetz…
You don't think the lefist shitbag democrats looked into her? You don't think that if there was remotely anything questionable they wouldn't have brought it up?
Care to provide any evidence to that "extremely well" vetting?
Trump's only requirement is that they swear absolute loyalty to him, and are willing to kiss his ass in a moments notice.
and a 20 year old photo?
a stained photo ...
She looks pretty good for 59.
^...
A 59 year old whore.
You have a strange idea of what vetting means. This woman has a closet full of ethics issues that should have prevented her from even being the AG of Florida. but, you know, to the GOP she looks pretty good for 59, /s
Look at these four guys with their Trump costumes on.. LOL
Yep, only three and half years to go now for him to drive Libs nutz. Do think Dems and Progressives can win anymore elections?
Well so much for the intelligent responses...
Certainly, the question should be will you be still around for it to drive you nutz?
Ah yes. Grown-up goals!
That’s very mature.
It's official. The DOJ is a joke now.
It has been since January 20th, along with the rest of the government