Proud Boys members call for Pam Bondi's resignation for seeking to dismiss their $100 million lawsuit

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News

September 2, 2025 / 1:41 PM EDT


Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department are facing blowback over their effort to block a lawsuit from members of the far-right Proud Boys, who are seeking financial reimbursement for their criminal cases and imprisonment for offenses stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot.

The Proud Boys Jan. 6 rioters, who met in a social media "X spaces" gathering last month, are calling for Bondi's resignation, after the Justice Department filed a motion in federal court in Florida last week, asking a judge to dismiss a civil lawsuit filed by Enrique Tarrio, Zachary Rehl, Domenic Pezzola and other Proud Boys. All the men were imprisoned for their roles in the riot before President Trump pardoned them on the day he was inaugurated for his second term.

The Proud Boys' lawsuit seeks more than $100 million in damages and alleges the men suffered "A parade of horribles: egregious and systemic abuse of the legal system and the United States Constitution to punish and oppress political allies of President Trump, by any and all means necessary, legal, or illegal."

"Through the use of evidence tampering, witness intimidation, violations of attorney-client privilege, and placing spies to report on trial strategy, the government got its fondest wish of imprisoning the J6 Defendants," the lawsuit claims. In a filing on Aug. 25, the Justice Department responded that the Jan. 6 defendants had not yet exhausted administrative remedies before they filed suit and also argued the U.S. enjoys sovereign immunity from such claims.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/proud-boys-call-for-pam-bondi-resignation-lawsuit/

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[littlemissmartypants]

1. Ladies and gentlemen, et. al. ...

It appears that we have entered the Leopards eating faces eating the Leopards eating faces portion of the program. Please try to remain seated...or you might spill your popcorn.

[Marie Marie]

2. GTFO - Who'da thought? This could be interesting.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Greed is God.

[alwaysinasnit]

4. Is it any wonder that these J6ers are suing after having tsf and others in Congress refer to them

as hostages, and after settling with Babbitt's family for $5 million. It would seem like easy money for these people.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. Need help with spelling: is it "chutzpah", or "hutzpah"?

Either way, them Jan 6 folks got it in spades.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Spelled 'chutzpah'

Pronounced "hutzpah," or simply "noive."

_{Funny, I don't look Jewish..}

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. Well, these J6ers gotta lotta noive.

They're asking for a lot of money they don't desoive.

[turbinetree]

6. Traitor's are pissed off at traitors............and traitors that support a fascist traitor............

[Diraven]

9. The real reason

Is that their lawyers and the DOJ are already working on setting up a J6 "victims" compensation commission. Where the supposed victims are all the pardoned J6 rioters, not the police officers they severely injured. There's no reason to keep this separate lawsuit going because they would lose the case anyway. The convicted and pardoned Proud Boys are already going to be getting paid millions of our tax dollars without going through the courts.

[popsdenver]

10. they are just pressing for Bimbo Bondi, and Trump

to give them TOP LEVEL positions, with extremely high pay, to man their latest STORM TROOPER ICE groups................

[Martin68]

12. Conservative extremists suing fascists. Win/win situation!

[mdbl]

13. Throw their asses back in jail

A convicted felon should never be allowed to pardon other felons.

[Figarosmom]

14. How can they sue?

A pardon only comes after admission of guilt. So they can't sue for wrongful arrest or defamation. And all the things they list as abuse are investigative techniques used all the time.