How the Justice Department is remaking itself in Trump’s image

The Washington Post ^ | March 20, 2025 11:02 a.m. EDT | Jeremy Roebuck , Mark Berman , Perry Stein and Spencer S. Hsu

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Attorney General Pam Bondi has curtailed the agency’s anti-corruption efforts, ratcheted up immigration enforcement and redirected the civil rights division

Pam Bondi vowed at her confirmation hearing this year that “politics will not play a part” in her time as attorney general.

Now she’s leading a Justice Department more visibly aligned with the political agenda of the White House than any in recent history.

In less than two months, Bondi and other top department officials have wielded the law to shield President Donald Trump’s allies and strike at his political foes. They have curtailed anti-corruption efforts that were sources of irritation for the president and ratcheted up immigration enforcement, while cutting national security expertise and refocusing the civil rights division on culture war fights that go beyond traditional conservative causes like religious freedom.

And they have pushed out dozens of prosecutors and FBI agents deemed insufficiently loyal, launching sweeping probes of past investigations and the veteran attorneys who led them.

The rapid-fire actions mirror dramatic changes underway at other agencies. They are moving the department away from long-held law enforcement priorities and norms, according to interviews with more than 30 current and former officials and law enforcement experts, leaving its leadership at odds with much of the workforce.

While Trump promised major changes at both the Justice Department and the FBI during his campaign, the speed and severity of the overhaul has stunned many observers. It is a stark departure from Trump’s first term, when his efforts to exert control were often blocked by agency leaders.

“The main theme here is that there’s sort of a breaking down of the independence of the Justice Department,” said Caren Morrison, a law professor at Georgia State University and former federal prosecutor. “This is not your mother’s Department of Justice. It’s...”

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Four bylines = four times the Astroturf, innuendo, gaslight, projection, disinformation and lies.

[RoosterRedux]

And the lower courts are re-making themselves in Soros’ image.

[cgbg]

The J6 persecutions were about as “political” as you can get—more than 1500 individuals arrested—most guilty of absolutely nothing.

[bigbob]

Kinda like DOJ has been remade in the image of Joe, Nikita, Che, Ho, Fidel, Xi, Angela, and Saddam over the past 70 years?

[packagingguy]

“his efforts to exert control were often blocked by agency leaders”

This is a frank admission that bureaucrats were running the show and that elected leaders could be blocked from implementing reforms.

I guess this is what is meant by “democracy”.

[reasonisfaith]

“They have curtailed anti-corruption efforts”

Slipping in the “anti” here might seem to work in their favor, but it changes an otherwise true statement into a false one.

[jeffc]

So WaPo doesn't like the DOJ being redirected from targeting political enemies to actually doing its job.

Got it...

[wizardoz]

If liberals are unhappy, I know things are going in the right direction.

[No name given]

That’s correct.

[Jim Robinson]

I love leftist tears in the morning. Feels like... victory.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

And the lower courts are re-making themselves in Soros’ image.

Biden and/or Autopen appointed a ***load of leftist judges. Trump needs to catch up.

[Eleutheria5]

Is her hair turning orange? Has she developed a yen for Diet Cokes?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

That’s why I absolutely loved reading today that Bondi is charging the leftists who burned up Teslas as terrorists. About time these bastards are called to task. Almost 10 years of this crap and they constantly walk, billions in damages from the likes of Antifa, BLM and they walk. Not anymore

https://nypost.com/2025/03/20/us-news/pam-bondi-announces-charges-against-3-in-tesla-attacks/

[cgbg]

Agreed—positive development.

The Tesla crazies are just getting started.

We may need to open a Trans federal prison in the Aleutians to keep all of them.

[FlingWingFlyer]

We were getting tired of it looking like O’Bonzo and Eric the Holder Urinal Attendant and their butt buttie, Merry Garland.

[dp0622]

Is this the babylon bee?? :)

Projection much?!

wow lol

[packrat35]

Every justice dep aligns itself with the party that was elected. Look how much they went after conservatives when Biden was in charge. Look how they completely opened the border and REFUSED to bey immigration laws.

[packrat35]

They never mention that cause they believe all those people actually deserved to die...

[packrat35]

They ARE terrorists. By any measure of the word, they fit it to a T.

[falcon99]

“Now she’s leading a Justice Department more visibly aligned with the political agenda of the White House than any in recent history”

These have to be the dumbest or unethical writers at the WP. If they don’t think the Obama DOJ (wingman) and the Biden DOJ were not politically aligned with the WH agendas then they had their heads in the sand or are totally dishonest.