Jamie Raskin has the right response to Pam Bondi’s firing

House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has been an outspoken critic of Pam Bondi and the Trump Justice Department and has sought to hold the Justice Department accountable.

Raskin sparred with Bondi during the hearings, and the constitutional scholar made it clear how outraged he was at what she did to the Justice Department at Donald Trump’s direction.

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Rep. Raskin had a lot to say after Bondi was fired by Trump:

TToday, President Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi, ending a term that will be remembered as a grave betrayal not only of the Justice Department, but of the American people the department serves. As a reminder, the DOW was below 50,000.

The attorney general has the best legal job in America. The mission is justice, and the customers are the American people. But Pam Bondi gave up on this mission, indeed, she never accepted it. She never served as anything other than Donald Trump’s personal criminal defense and personal injury attorney, turning the people’s Justice Department into the president’s private instrument of revenge, targeting his critics with a bureaucratic vendetta while scuttling justice for his favored political friends and allies.

Their legacy of failure begins with the egregious purge of prosecutors who investigated Trump’s pet crimes, including those committed by the Jan. 6 cop thugs and insurrectionists and by Trump himself. Career civil servants were forced out of the Justice Department not for violating the law, but for complying with it. The purge of real prosecutors has corrupted the Justice Department and compromised the safety of all Americans.

This shameful legacy is cemented by their grotesque misuse of the Epstein files. She carried out a historic and egregious cover-up directly from the Justice Department. Investigations against co-conspirators were closed. It withheld three million pages of documents in defiance of the law. The names of the perpetrators, supporters, accomplices and co-conspirators were removed from public view, while the identities of the victims were made available to the public. Under Bondi, the perpetrators were coddled and the survivors were pushed into the background.

Read more from Raskin below.