Jamel Bouie

Like Pam Bondi, you know, not known for running sort of like a clean AG office in Florida, right?

Like not known for being a super scrupulous person, right?

So she's like primed to do exactly what Trump wants you to do.

And the second thing, third thing total is and this is my hobby horse, as you guys know, yours to an extent, too, as well, David.

To me, this just lays bare the insanity of the idea that the entire executive branch must follow the political priorities of the president.

Right.

Like.

DOJ independence wasn't just something that emerged to like frustrate the aspirations of strong executives.

It serves a practical purpose.

And the practical purpose is that when you're asking the attorney general to do things like prosecute members of Congress, you're asking the attorney general to do things like investigate crimes.

the spouses of people killed by your government, as was the case after Renee Goode was killed.

What will happen is that the good faith, highly competent, patriotic prosecutors that work for you, they'll quit.

They don't wanna do that.

They wanna do the thing that they signed up to do, which was like enforce the law and try to bring some measure of justice to people who have been victims.

And so what you're seeing in the DOJ and in offices like in Minnesota is like an exodus of attorneys.

And so not only is Trump asking Bondi to do insane things and she's trying to do them, but in trying to do them, she's hollowing out the DOJ and rendering it unable to do its actual job.

And I think you can see this everywhere, like everywhere that happens.

The Supreme Court in particular has essentially given the sanction to this notion of a unitary executive whose job isn't to execute the will of Congress, but to be able to bend the executive branch in service of their political agenda.

Everywhere that touches, you see dysfunction.

And I don't think it's just because Trump.