President Trump and Palm Bondi signed Bondi with a government commission appointed as the US Attorney General after taking oath at the Oval Office on Wednesday.
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On the first day in the Justice Department, Attorney General Palm Bondi on Wednesday issued a series of instructions to align the department with President Trump and his agenda, in which a case for investigation of alleged justice weapons. Establishment and restoration also includes the task force. Federal death sentence.
The Senate confirmed Bondi on Tuesday evening and took oath at a ceremony at the White House on Wednesday. Supreme Court Justice Clerks Thomas took oath of office for Bondi, whose husband and mother were with her.
She takes over at a riot in the Justice Department, where the Trump administration has pushed several senior career officials over the past few weeks as the new leadership seeks to overcome the department and implement the president’s agenda.
On the first day on the job, Bondi addressed all the employees of the Justice Department and signed 14 memo. Under the Biden administration, some directions have been returned, while others attack on a new basis. Many people appear to present details for executive orders, President Trump signed, including Weapons The federal government and on it Clash Haggies.
For example, one of the memo sets up a “Weaponing Working Group”, which reviews the activities of all departments and agencies who used the “Civil or Civil or Criminal Enforcement Authority of the United States over the past four years The responsibility has been entrusted. “
Both Trump and Bondi have argued that under the Biden administration, the department unfairly targeted conservatives, especially Trump itself. Trump was charged in two federal affairs: in 2020 to submit election interference and collection documents. After winning the election in the second term, both cases were dismissed.
The former leadership of the department dismissed the allegations of political motivations, and pointed to several criminal cases against renowned Democrats during the Biden administration.
Pay attention to “inappropriate goals”
According to the Bondi Memo, the new working group will “identify the events where it seems that the behavior of a department or agency is designed to achieve political purposes or other wrong purposes.”
It mentions a number of specific things that he will investigate, including former special lawyer Jack Smith, “related to weapons” of prosecutors and investigators, who “unprecedented raids on President Trump’s house” Take. FBI agents searched Trump’s Mar-A-Laog Club and his residence as part of their classified document case.
It will also review the Manhattan District Attorney and the New York State Attorney General’s “Federal Cooperation with Weapons” with weapons “to target President Trump, his family and his business. “The Manhattan District Attorney brought state criminal charges against Trump for misrepresenting business records to hide the payment to an adult film star.
It states that the capital riots will also be reviewed on January 6. The Working Group will consider “inappropriate investigative tactics and immoral legal actions related to the capital attack on January 6, 2021.” After Trump returned to the White House, on that day, he gave a claim to every defendant who committed crimes in his first one.
The memo says the Department of Justice will provide quarterly reports to the White House on the progress of the review.
Another memo set up a joint task force on October 7 to “prefer justice for the victims” of Hamas -led attacks on Israel. The task force aims to resolve the “threat posed by Hamas and its affiliates” and “fight against terrorism and civil rights violations” in the homeland.
Two other memoes are related to the death penalty.
A man identifies this on federal executions, and instructs the federal prosecutor to be executed by foreigners for a law enforcement official and the death penalty in the capital crime cases. They are legally in the United States. “
Second, President Biden’s decision in the days of his post, President Biden’s decision, in which federal casualties could be sentenced to death at the age of 37. The Bondi Memo Department directs the Justice Department, along with other things, with the help of local prosecution helping 37 people sentenced to death sentence under state law who received publicity.
Bondi also signed a memo in which the department’s lawyers were given the notice that they are expected to defend, advance and protect the interests of the United States – who decided by the president. Have gone
It states that when the DOJ lawyers “disrupt the constitutional order and deprive the president of the benefits of his lawyers, then appearing in court or signing the briefing forward pushing the arguments of good faith.” Deny. ”
It is ahead to say that the lawyers of any department who “refuse to sign a brief or appear in court because of their personal views or decisions, refuses to advance the arguments of good faith by the administration. Otherwise delay or obstruct the mission of the department.
