Pam Bondi had insisted at her Senate confirmation hearing that as attorney general, her Justice Department would not “play politics.” Yet in the month since the Trump administration took over, a succession of actions has raised concerns the department is doing exactly that. The moves have generated great upheaval and tested the department's independence. Recent firings and resignations have rattled the foundations of an institution that's prided itself on being driven solely by facts, evidence and the law. A retired federal prosecutor says some of the decisions have all the signs “of corrupting the criminal justice system."
