Former GOP strategist Rick Wilson predicted Friday that Attorney General Pam Bondi has serious concerns about the Trump DOJ and her own legal future.
In a Substack post on Friday, the co-founder of anti-Trump organization The Lincoln Project described what Bondi has planned next, in his view.
"Attorney General Pam Bondi is currently attempting to build a legal fortress around DOJ lawyers to protect them from the one thing they fear most: professional ethics, sanctions, and losing their law licenses," Wilson wrote. "The proposed new regulation would allow the Attorney General to effectively veto state bar associations' sanctions against DOJ lawyers for misconduct."
And for Bondi, the stakes are high.
"It’s a 'Rule of Law for Thee, but Not for Me' policy of the highest order," Wilson explained. "Bondi and Deputy AG Todd Blanche are tired of pesky organizations like the New York or even the Florida Bars investigating their 'creative' interpretations of legal duty. They want to be the sole arbiters of their own conduct, effectively purging the Office of Professional Responsibility and making themselves unaccountable."
"If they succeed in this power grab, the Department of Justice becomes a law firm where the partners write their own ethical code in disappearing ink," Wilson wrote. "It would effectively grant federal prosecutors a license to lie and mislead judges under the cloak of official duty, with no fear of losing the law license that got them there."
But the unusual move could backfire, Wilson suggested.
"It’s an unprecedented weaponization of the DOJ to protect the very people who are dismantling the legal system from within," Wilson added. "Pam Bondi, Ed Martin, Lindsay Halligan, Harmeet Dhillon, Judge Franzia Pirro, and even Golden Boy Todd Blanche all would love to keep their law licenses despite violating every aspect of their legal obligations, every damn day. I think not."