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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 18h

BREAKING: Federal judge officially found ICE violated people’s rights during raids in Chicago, conducted unlawful arrests.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 19h

Kristi Noem sang a pretty different tune on the National Guard last year.

“He actually was going to take control of our South Dakota National Guard and actually activate them.”

ZERO PRINCIPLE.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 19h

Well, darn. Couldn’t say it better ourselves.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

Sen. WHITEHOUSE: Did the FBI find photographs of Donald Trump with half-naked young women that were shown by Jeffrey Epstein, according to a witness?

Bondi: *silence*

Whitehouse: You don’t know anything about that?

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

Sen. BOOKER: DOJ brought baseless charges against the Mayor of Newark. The federal judge even admonished prosecutors for bringing the case.

Bondi: That matter is ongoing, and I can’t discuss it.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

Sen. PADILLA: This Justice Department fired a 15-year career prosecutor who put away sex traffickers and transnational terrorists. She was marched out of her office. Why? Because she had the audacity to remind Border Patrol that it should follow court orders.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

Sen. SCHIFF: You’ve refused to answer questions about ethics, the Qatari plane, the Epstein files, Tom Homan’s alleged bribery, political prosecutions, military authorization…

Bondi: *tries interrupting*

Schiff: Excuse me. This is an oversight hearing. We demand answers.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

Sen. HIRONO: The Department of Justice has become the Department of Revenge and Corruption. The double standard of this Justice Department is clear. The American people are waking up to the corruption, favoritism, and lawlessness.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

Sen. DURBIN: Madam Attorney General, it's my job to grill you. Investigation of your agency is part of my responsibility. You may not like the experience, but others have weathered this storm and answered questions in a respectful manner.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

Sen. KLOBUCHAR: Why did DOJ fire a prosecutor who was pursuing justice for service members killed in Afghanistan?

Bondi: I’m not going to discuss that.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

Sen. DURBIN: Were you consulted by the White House before they deployed National Guard troops to cities like Chicago?

Bondi: I'm not going to discuss.

Durbin: Even if you talked with them?

Bondi: I'm not going to discuss.

Durbin: Why do you want to keep this secret?

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

Sen. WHITEHOUSE to Bondi: Responding with completely irrelevant far-right internet talking points is not helpful here. These are pretty simple questions.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

Sen. KLOBUCHAR: Do you support raising the age to 21 to purchase assault weapons?

Bondi: I won’t discuss pending litigation.

Sen. KLOBUCHAR: Your views are not pending litigation.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

Sen. DURBIN: Why was the FBI directed to flag Donald Trump’s name in the Epstein files?

Bondi: I'm not going to discuss anything related to these files.

Durbin: Eventually, you're going to have to answer.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

America is suffering from a TRUMP-BONDI JUSTICE SHUTDOWN.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

WATCH:

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 1d

Never forget when Pam Bondi lied that the Epstein list was “on her desk.”

She will always put Donald Trump ahead of America.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 2d

Let’s not forget who Donald Trump originally wanted as Attorney General…

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 2d

Pam Bondi only has Donald Trump’s back—not YOURS.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 2d

Sen. DURBIN: What’s taken place since January 20th would make even President Nixon recoil. This is your legacy, Attorney General Bondi.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 2d

Pam Bondi showed us exactly who she’d be as Attorney General.

She’s a Trump loyalist who ignores his worst moments.

Just watch every time she played ignorant during her hearing.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 2d

Firing career prosecutors.
Defunding law enforcement.
Targeting critics for sham prosecutions.
Undermining free speech.

This is the TRUMP-BONDI JUSTICE SHUTDOWN.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 2d

We’re on day seven of the Trump government shutdown… but on MONTH EIGHT of the Pam Bondi justice shutdown.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 2d

Donald Trump wants to use the American military against its own cities.

Get troops out of Chicago.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 2d

BREAKING: Illinois Democrats demand Donald Trump immediately rescind inflammatory, unconstitutional order to deploy National Guard troops to Chicago.

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