If you're a lawyer working for DOJ under Pam Bondi, honestly answering a judge's questions gets you fired

[In It to Win It]

WSJ (Archived)

Justice Department Suspends Lawyer Over Candid Comments on Immigration Case

The Justice Department suspended one of its top immigration lawyers after he criticized the Trump administration for a lack of transparency about a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador.

Erez Reuveni, a senior lawyer in the Justice Department’s immigration litigation office, was placed on indefinite leave Saturday, the day after a hearing that led to a judge’s ordering the U.S. to return the man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

“At my direction, every Department of Justice attorney is required to zealously advocate on behalf of the United States,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement confirming the move. “Any attorney who fails to abide by this direction will face consequences.”

Immigration officials have attributed Abrego Garcia’s deportation to El Salvador as an administrative error. In 2019, an immigration judge ordered that he not be returned to his home country.

After Abrego Garcia’s March arrest, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt alleged that he was a leader of MS-13.

[Irish_Dem]

1. Bondi wants DOJ attorneys to lie to judges.

[Raven]

2. If that attorney was a MAGA hire (and I assume he was) he learned pretty quickly that

lying to the Court is zealous representation, according to Pam Bondi, and if he had followed the "Trump Rule" he would have been in contempt and likely in danger of losing his license to practice law.

[Irish_Dem]

3. A judge reading the riot act to an attorney might focus that attorney's mind a bit.

[Raven]

4. That's an understatement!

[rickyhall]

5. The Teeny Bopper has spoken.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Court of Appeals scolds the Justice Department for penalizing the lawyers who argued the case

The attorney in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case was suspended by Bondi for not lying to the court and coming up with a bogus explanation for deportation of this man. The Court of appeals called Bondi out on this

Link to tweet

This is a major call out of Bondi by this Court of Appeals

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Bondi changed her prosecutorial tune on trump after he paid her big bucks.

The Trump Foundation-Pam Bondi scandal

CREW / Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington

In March 2016, CREW discovered that the Trump Foundation had broken the law by giving an illegal $25,000 contribution to a political group supporting Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi. Charitable foundations like the Trump Foundation are not allowed to engage in politics. Even more problematic was the fact that the contribution was given as Bondi’s office was deciding whether to take legal action related to Trump University. This would set off an investigation which would lead to one of the biggest stories of the year. Here’s how it went down: (Complete Timeline)

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https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/the-trump-foundation-pam-bondi-scandal/