WaPo / Aaron Blake: Pam Bondi's striking comments on arresting judges

[Dennis Donovan]

WaPo / Aaron Blake - (archived: https://archive.ph/izIMC ) Pam Bondi’s striking comments on arresting judges

Amid criticisms that the administration is intimidating judges, Bondi didn’t exactly downplay the idea that this was part of a larger crusade against the judiciary.

April 25. 2025 5:16 p.m.
Analysis by Aaron Blake

The Trump administration’s brash moves to crack down on illegal immigration entered a fraught new phase Friday, with the FBI arrest of a local Wisconsin judge who was charged with allegedly obstructing the arrest of an immigrant.

This is, needless to say, a significant escalation of the administration’s efforts. Any time you’re arresting judges, you enter yet more constitutionally dicey territory, with the administration already flouting and resisting judges’ orders. And the backdrop looms large here: The administration has in recent weeks ramped up its attacks on what it labels the radical activist judges who have ruled against many of its immigration actions. (In actuality, several of the judges have been Republican and even Trump appointees.)

Some Democrats responded by offering cautious statements that allowed for the idea that the judge might have actually done something very bad. But many others pitched this as an obvious effort to intimidate a judiciary that has stood up to Trump. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-New York) labeled it “an attack on the separation of powers, and we will fight this with everything we have.”

There is much we have to learn about this situation (you can see all the major known details here).

But in some of its first comments about the situation, the Trump administration didn’t downplay the idea that this was connected to its broader crusade against the judiciary.

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[Dan]

1. When America becomes america again, we must make an example of the enablers - starting with the members of the

Executive Branch.

We must not only deny them their freedom but take their wealth and reputation.

We must make MAGA ashamed and shamed.

And members of ICE (the American version of the Gestapo) should lose police immunity and be subject to not only criminal charges but civil liability to their victims.

And none of this 3 years (Garland style) time frame for justice.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Bondage Barbie cracking her whip.

She is always smiling and laughing, like when she talks about giving someone the death penalty.

Or play acting indignant self-righteousness when accusing judges of trying to be above the law.
What a damn hypocrite bondage barbie is.

She is having the time of her life being as cruel as possible.

[Solly Mack]

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