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Pam Bondi’s firing is good news. Now, US Senate must stand up for DOJ

Bondi’s missteps hastened her exit, but her departure offers a reset. The Senate must not rubber-stamp Trump’s pick and should demand an attorney general committed to DOJ independence.

With the ouster of Pam Bondi, the Senate gets a do-over in confirming an attorney general. Let’s hope it demands one who won’t thumb her nose at the independence the Department of Justice has enjoyed for decades.

President Donald Trump fired Bondi Thursday after little more than a year on the job. In many ways, Bondi had done everything Trump had asked her to do. She used congressional hearings to sing his praises. She set up a “weaponization” working group to go after law enforcement officials who had prosecuted Trump. She directed the prosecution of some of Trump’s enemies. Bondi’s DOJ even sought criminal charges against members of Congress for simply restating in a video that military service members had a legal duty to refuse illegal orders.

But Bondi’s clumsy rollout of the files relating to Jeffrey Epstein, as well as her botched efforts to indict Trump rivals, may have been her undoing. It........

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