'Highly abnormal' order by Trump's new Attorney General flagged by legal expert
February 06, 2025
CNN's Elie Honig flagged a "highly abnormal" directive issued by Donald Trump's newly installed Attorney General.
Within hours of being sworn in, attorney general Pam Bondi established a "weaponization working group" to review criminal prosecutions and civil suits against Trump before he was re-elected, including two state cases in New York, and Honig expressed surprise by the move.
"Part of what Pam Bondi did yesterday is totally normal," said Honig, a former federal prosecutor. "When she sent out a memo saying here's our new enforcement priorities, we're going to emphasize immigration, we're going to emphasize human trafficking, that's what you would expect to see from any A.G. What you're talking about here, this new group that's going to examine all the Trump prosecutions, that is highly abnormal, and I think that is corrosive to what DOJ is about."
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"Now, when it comes to the two federal cases, the Jack Smith prosecutions of Donald Trump, DOJ can look at whatever they want – that's their stuff, that's in-house, that's their files. It's going to get dicier if they if and when they try to delve into the state cases, the Alvin Bragg hush money case, the Letitia James lawsuit, because DOJ, I believe, in the next several months will say we need your files, and I think Alvin Bragg is going to say, 'No way,' and we could end up in a showdown in court over this. But look, this is politicization. I mean, there's no reason to reopen these cases. I've been critical of these cases, you know, I think that there there have been prosecutorial missteps. But to go into this and to try to declare that these were politically driven, I think is in itself political."
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