Carrie Johnson

She presided over a massive exodus at the Justice Department.

Hundreds of prosecutors and FBI agents now gone, reshaping the institution.

Judges, of course, have criticized the department for blowing off orders.

Grand juries pretty frequently decline to bring indictments, which almost never happened before last year.

And some of the top leaders in the FBI who were fired last year have sued.

They say they were ousted for political reasons because they were not sufficiently loyal to Donald Trump.

Last year, Attorney General Pam Bondi brought in a group of influencers and MAGA personalities to review binders that she had provided them of some of the Epstein documents.

Those people came out of the White House and said they seemed like old papers that had already been made public.

And then Pam Bondi went on Fox News and said she had the Epstein client list on her desk and was reviewing it.

The DOJ went on to say there was no such client list.

And that was kind of a PR mistake.

fiasco from which the attorney general really never recovered.

In a post on social media, President Trump calls Pam Bondi a great American patriot and loyal friend and says she'll transition to a job in the private sector.

Trump has blamed Bondi for mishandling law enforcement files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and he's demanded the Justice Department do more to go after his perceived political enemies.

Bondi presided over a huge exodus at the DOJ.

The group Justice Connection, which supports current and former justice workers, says DOJ's independence, integrity, and workforce have degraded more under her leadership than any other time during the department's history.

Todd Blanch, one of Trump's former personal lawyers, will run the Justice Department on an acting basis.

Carrie Johnson, NPR News, Washington.

President Trump issued an executive order on day one that would end citizenship to babies born to people who are in the country illegally or here to work or visit on a temporary basis.

If the Supreme Court agrees, that order could affect 250,000 babies born in the U.S.