Legal Experts File Complaint Against Pam Bondi, Citing 'Serious' Misconduct, Trump Bias
Roughly 70 law professors, attorneys and justices filed an ethics complaint against Attorney General Pam Bondi with the Florida Bar on Thursday, accusing her of “serious professional misconduct” and political bias in favor of President Donald Trump.
The complaint alleges that the former Florida attorney general has worked to weaponize the Department of Justice by threatening department lawyers with discipline or termination if they fail “to zealously pursue the President’s political objectives.”
DOJ lawyers say Bondi and her staff have pressured them into “violating their ethical obligations” and doing things they are “ethically forbidden from doing.” This has resulted in “serious professional misconduct that threatens the rule of law and the administration of justice,” states the complaint, obtained by HuffPost and first reported by the Miami Herald.
Francisco Digon-Greer, counsel for the Florida Bar, dismissed the complaint in a letter on Friday, saying the institution does not “investigate or prosecute sitting officers appointed under the U.S. Constitution while they are in office.”
“Such proceedings by The Florida Bar, as an arm of the Florida Supreme Court, could encroach on the authority of the federal government concerning these officials and the exercise of their duties,” his letter read.
Dozens of legal experts, including retired Florida Supreme Court justices Barbara J. Pariente and Peggy A. Quince, had signed the complaint, which demanded an investigation and sanctions against Bondi.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pam-bondi-florida-bar-ethics-complaint_n_6842e94de4b004bd540a33ac
One can only hope that this will lead to her disbarment!
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