U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi devised a scheme earlier this month to run cover for Department of Justice lawyers who face ethics investigations for how they do their jobs.

Bondi wants to hijack the processes that state bar associations use to conduct those investigations, with a proposed rule to allow the DOJ to step in to stall those probes for as long as she likes.

But first, Americans get a month to tell the attorney general what they think of her scheme. And Americans have plenty to say. More than 1 million people have posted comments on the Federal Register since Bondi's proposed DOJ rule change was posted March 5. And the 30-day comment period still has a week to go until the April 6 deadline.

Of the 1,038,423 comments posted as of March 30, just under 37,000 are now available for review. I breezed through many of them in the past week. They showed overwhelming opposition to Bondi's proposed rule change.

Somehow, Pam Bondi’s weird power grab isn’t popular

A DOJ spokesperson declined to comment while the regulatory process for Bondi's proposed rule is still underway. But there are plenty of former DOJ lawyers who have thoughts to share about this.

Justice Connection, a network for former DOJ staffers, in an essay published........

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