Attorney General of the United States
Confirmed as the 87th Attorney General on February 5, 2025. Under her leadership the Justice Department indicted former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James on politically motivated charges — both cases were dismissed by a federal judge. Obstructed release of Epstein investigation files by missing court-ordered deadlines, re-redacting previously public documents, and withholding FBI memos, prompting a bipartisan House Oversight Committee subpoena (24-19 vote including five Republicans). Oversaw the firing of career prosecutors who worked on Capitol riot and Trump investigation cases. The DOJ Civil Rights Division experienced a roughly 70% exodus of career staff. Democratic Rep. Summer Lee introduced articles of impeachment accusing Bondi of turning the DOJ into a "personal law firm" for the president.
Grade 3 of 5: Serious Rights Violation
Systematic weaponization of the DOJ through a retaliatory investigations unit, indictments of political opponents that were dismissed as brought by an unlawfully appointed prosecutor, mass departure of career prosecutors, and dismantlement of the Civil Rights Division and Public Integrity Section.
Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern
After signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the Trump administration's DOJ missed legal deadlines, secretly re-redacted files, and withheld documents containing an unadjudicated allegation that Trump sexually abused a minor. Separately, UN special-procedure experts stated that a number of the crimes described in the files 'may reasonably meet' the threshold of crimes against humanity. The case has drawn bipartisan congressional subpoenas of AG Bondi, and calls for a special counsel over alleged perjury.
Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern
A pattern of court order defiance, threats against judges, calls for impeachment, and DOJ Civil Rights Division gutting that constitutional scholars describe as the most serious executive-judicial confrontation since at least Watergate.
Grade 2 of 5: Major Abuse of Power
Unprecedented use of executive orders to punish four law firms for representing clients adverse to the president. All four orders were struck down as unconstitutional violations of the First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments. The campaign chilled legal representation and coerced at least nine other firms into compliance deals that remain operative.