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Within days of rumors circulating that President Donald Trump was considering firing his attorney general, on Thursday the news became official. As is standard fare for this administration, Trump announced the staffing change on Truth Social: Pam Bondi is out as attorney general. Her deputy, Todd Blanche, is stepping up as acting AG, while Bondi will transition to a yet-to-be-announced private-sector role. Bondi is now the second Trump Cabinet official to be shown the door, after Kristi Noem was pushed out as homeland security secretary almost exactly one month ago.

Even within the standards of Trump’s chaos-fueled second term, Bondi never quite got her footing during her 14-month tenure at the Justice Department. It was largely agreed across the political spectrum that she botched the release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, an issue of critical importance to the president’s far-right base; failed in her transparently political efforts to prosecute her boss’s enemies New........

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