Attorney General Pam Bondi is set to issue directives to target the previously weaponized Department of Justice, enforce criminal laws, and support presidential policies.
The directives, exclusively obtained by Fox News, describe “zealous advocacy” for various responsibilities, including “aggressively enforcing criminal laws passed by Congress, but also vigorously defending presidential policies and actions on behalf of the United States against legal challenges.”
“The discretion afforded Justice Department attorneys with respect to those responsibilities does not include latitude to substitute their personal political views or judgments for those that prevailed in the election,” the memo says.
Bondi states in the document that “any Justice Department attorney who declines to sign a brief, refuses to advance good-faith arguments on behalf of the Trump administration, or otherwise delays or impedes the Justice Department’s mission will be subject to discipline and potentially termination.”
The new U.S. Attorney General will also establish the “Weaponization Working Group,” to review agencies’ behaviors to identify “politicized justice.” Some of the situations to be reviewed include the prosecutions against President Donald Trump led by Special Counsel Jack Smith, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Fox News further reported that the directive also instructs the DOJ to “re-evaluate instances of the prior administration electing not to seek the death penalty.”
Upon taking office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that authorizes the Attorney General to “pursue the death penalty for all crimes of a severity demanding its use.”
“It is the policy of the United States to ensure that the laws that authorize capital punishment are respected and faithfully implemented, and to counteract the politicians and judges who subvert the law by obstructing and preventing the execution of capital sentences,” the order reads, explaining that the Attorney General will seek the death penalty in cases regarding the murder of law-enforcement officers and in instances where an illegal immigrant committed a capital crime.
The Attorney General will also see that states allowing capital punishment have a “sufficient supply of drugs needed to carry out lethal injection.”
