Department of Justice Sues Federal Judges to Stop Justice?

Department of Justice Sues Federal Judges to Stop Justice?

She all but admits she is Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, paid for by the government, defying courts left and right. Her constitutional chops and commitments are non-existent, leading to Pamela Jo Bondi’s facing serious ethics charges in her native Florida, where she once presided as that state’s attorney general. Indeed, “[now US] Attorney General Pam Bondi is accused of ‘serious professional misconduct’ in a Florida Bar complaint, the Miami Herald reported Thursday [6/5].

“Bondi’s record as the head of the Justice Department is being slammed by close to 70 law professors, attorneys and former Florida Supreme Court justices via a Florida Bar ethics complaint filed Thursday [6/5], according to the Herald… In the complaint, the group alleges Bondi has breached ethical duties in her current role and that ‘serious professional misconduct that threatens the rule of law and the administration of justice’ has been carried out by the attorney general, the Herald reported.” The Hill, June 5th.

But Bondi’s truthfulness faces additional challenges: “The attorney general, Pam Bondi, professed ignorance of reports of immigration officials hiding their faces with masks during roundups of undocumented people, despite widespread video evidence and reports that they are instilling pervasive fear and panic.

“Challenged at a Wednesday [6/25] Capitol Hill subcommittee hearing by Gary Peters, a Democratic senator for Michigan, Bondi, who as the country’s top law officer has a prominent role in the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policy, implied she was unaware of plain-clothed agents concealing their faces while carrying out arrests but suggested it was for self-protection.

“‘I do know they are being doxxed … they’re being threatened,’ she told Peters. ‘Their families are being threatened.’... Bondi’s protestations appeared to strain credibility given the attention the masked raids carried out by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agents have attracted on social media and elsewhere.” Guardian UK, June 25th. How would they be “doxed,” when there is no way to know who they are?! Even if all she watched was Fox News or social media, she would know these agents are frequently masked with no IDs.

It's no secret that Bondi and friends cannot fathom how the judiciary could possibly meet her boss’ deportation targets if the detainee’s due process rights are protected. So, screw the Constitution, and let’s get on with it, a vector that the Supreme Court’s shadow docket is awfully close to allowing. Bondi seems willing to take on the entirety of Maryland’s entire federal district courts… kind of like the government’s suing itself: “The Trump administration has filed a lawsuit against federal judges in Maryland over an order that blocks the immediate removal of any detained immigrant who requests a court hearing… The unusual suit filed Tuesday [6/24] in Baltimore against the chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Maryland and the court’s other judges underscores the administration’s focus on immigration enforcement and ratchets up its fight with the judiciary.

“At issue is an order signed by Chief Judge George L. Russell III and filed in May blocking the administration from immediately removing from the U.S. any immigrants who file paperwork with the Maryland federal district court seeking a review of their detention. The order blocks the removal until 4 p.m. on the second business day after the habeas corpus petition is filed.

“In its suit, the Trump administration says such an automatic pause on removals violates a Supreme Court ruling and impedes the president’s authority to enforce immigration laws… ‘Defendants’ automatic injunction issues whether or not the alien needs or seeks emergency relief, whether or not the court has jurisdiction over the alien’s claims, and no matter how frivolous the alien’s claims may be,’ the suit says. ‘And it does so in the immigration context, thus intruding on core Executive Branch powers.’… The suit names the U.S. and U.S. Department of Homeland Security as plaintiffs.” Associated Press, June 26th.

And this from the June 26th Los Angeles Times: “Emil Bove, a former criminal defense attorney for the Republican president, forcefully pushed back against suggestions from Democrats that the whistleblower's claims make him unfit to serve on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Bove's nomination [to that federal bench] has come under intense scrutiny after the whistleblower, a fired department lawyer, claimed in a complaint made public Tuesday [6/24] that Bove used an expletive when he said during a meeting that the Trump administration might need to ignore judicial commands.”

Given the twisting and squirming of Homeland Security and Department of Justice officials to avoid or deflect court orders, even at the Supreme Court level, whom do you believe? Bove or the whistleblower? A rogue President, blasting through constitutional guardrails helmed by officials who believe that loyalty to “whatever Trump wants” represents their full compliance with the oath in office to protect the US Constitution.

I’m Peter Dekom, and the only destructive rogues I want to see are pirates in the movies!