In early April, President Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi right before she was to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Under Bondi’s leadership, the Justice Department has:
- Dropped more than 23,000 criminal investigations, abandoning cases involving corruption, white-collar crime, domestic terrorism, and more1
- Fired more than a dozen lawyers who had worked on cases investigating President Trump2
- Slashed the team investigating official corruption3
- Refused to investigate federal agents’ killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis 4, or to turn over evidence to local investigators in Good’s or Alex Pretti’s killings5
- Leveraged DOJ power against political opponents of the president, including lawmakers, former government officials, and outspoken critics, via often baseless prosecutions and investigations6
Let’s be clear: she must still testify. The public deserves answers about how she was running the Justice Department, why she made the decisions she did, and who else–including in the White House–was involved.
It’s Congress’s job to get those answers and hold the executive branch accountable.