The Job of Attorney General Is Not What We Think It Is

Before we get too upset with Pam Bondi, let’s think a minute.

John F. Di Leo | April 4, 2026

In her one short year on the job, Pam Bondi has been very successful in many ways.

Her DoJ has successfully defended the administration against a barrage of lawfare, including winning 24 defenses at the Supreme Court.

Her DoJ has likely done more damage to drug cartels and other transnational organized crime groups than any in the past.

Her DoJ has successfully secured agreements with a number of major universities to end bigoted practices and make reparations for past offenses.

Her DoJ has led a bunch of major busts of human-trafficking networks and other kinds of immigrant-related financial criminals, from Medicaid fraud to daycare and nursing home fraud, much of which is still in the early stages but all of which promises to total tens of billions of dollars in revealed fraud against the American taxpayer.

And all this was accomplished while doing the usual job of a federal A.G.: staffing the U.S. attorneys’ offices, finding and supporting new judges for federal vacancies, and similar “ordinary” tasks. 

That’s just in one year. 

Granted, we had reasons to be dissatisfied, too:  

Why haven’t the criminals involved in the “Russian collusion” hoax and so many other such illegal federal witch hunts in recent years been prosecuted yet?

Why haven’t the people responsible for framing and persecuting the January 6 protesters been prosecuted?

Why haven’t the mayors, county executives, and governors who violated their constituents’ constitutional rights during the COVID-19 panic been prosecuted?

Why hasn’t more vote fraud been prosecuted? 

These are legitimate questions, but they all point to a reality that perhaps the American public — especially the conservative movement — has not accepted, even if we know it in our hearts. 

We think of the Attorney General as “America’s top prosecutor.”  It’s been the popularly accepted nickname for the office for generations.  But is it really the right way to look at the job? 

We look at the position as a federal version of the state-level attorney general,........

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