Washington State Attorney General Nick Brown and Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha have expressed their disapproval of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi's recent comments. The remarks in question involve character attacks on prosecutors and threats to dismiss them based on their political beliefs.
Brown and Neronha, both former U.S. Attorneys who previously served at the Department of Justice, stated: “Not only is firing someone for their political beliefs blatantly illegal, it is deeply un-American. As former DOJ attorneys, we both worked with qualified individuals of integrity, honesty and transparency, some of whom held political beliefs different from our own. An ideological purge of the Justice Department directly undermines the diversity of opinion and expertise that helps promote justice consistently across presidential administrations."
They further criticized Bondi’s intentions by saying: “President Trump spent his campaign openly threatening to weaponize the Justice Department; an institution that we were proud to work for. Attorney General Bondi’s intent to ‘find’ and ‘root out’ DOJ employees whose personal views don’t align with the president’s make plain that she is willing to dismantle American principles of justice to satisfy a lawless president. Those of us who still believe in the rule of law, at every leadership level, must come together to protect the Constitution, because it is abundantly clear that this administration seeks to disregard it.”
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