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So Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, has had quite the week. And when I say quite the week, I mean it's been absolutely nuclear.

Starting with the big one: Bondi testified before the House Judiciary Committee on February eleventh, and according to reporting from NPR and Politico, it was less of a hearing and more of a cage match. Representative Jamie Raskin came out swinging, arguing that the DOJ under Bondi ignored federal law when releasing the Epstein files. He claimed the agency published names and identities of over a thousand victims "for the world to see" and called the whole thing a cover-up. Bondi didn't take that lying down — she sparred with lawmakers over the handling of those files, and when pressed about redactions that didn't comply with the law, she hit back hard, calling Representative Thomas Massie a "failed politician" with Trump derangement syndrome. Yeah, real classy stuff.

Speaking of Epstein, on Saturday Bondi announced that all the files have been released, including a list of three hundred eighteen high-profile names. But here's where it gets messy: Massie and other lawmakers are still furious about the decision not to prosecute billionaire Leslie Wexner, a former Epstein associate whose name appears hundreds of times in those files. According to Fox News, Bondi's letter claimed no records were withheld for political reasons, which, given the Republican pushback, is... let's call it optimistic.

Then there's the First Amendment lawsuit. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression filed suit against Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on February eleventh for allegedly pressuring Apple and Facebook to censor an ICE monitoring app and a Facebook group tracking immigration enforcement activity. Bondi actually bragged about this on X, claiming credit for removing the app. The lawsuit argues that's straight-up unconstitutional.

And if that wasn't enough, Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee released a letter — dated February tenth — accusing Bondi of abruptly firing Ed Martin, her Weaponization Working Group leader, after he participated in January sixth activities and launched politically motivated prosecutions against the DOJ's critics.

So there you have it: congressional confrontation, legal challenges, and questions about whether she's running the Justice Department or running a vendetta. Standard Tuesday for this administration.

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