Pamela Jo Bondi is the current United States Attorney General. She was nominated by Trump on 11/24/2024 and confirmed by the Senate on 2/4/2025. She earned her law degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. She is licensed to practice law in Florida.

Before joining the Trump Administration as the Attorney General, Bondi served, among others, as the State of Florida Attorney General (2011-2019), and before that as a state prosecutor at Hillsborough County, Florida. Bondi was also hired by the White House during the first Trump administration to assist in Trump’s first impeachment defense.

In her capacity as the United States Attorney General, Bondi heads the Department of Justice and is representing the U.S. in legal matters and providing legal advice to the President and Executive Departments.

⚠️ Conflicts of Interest or Other Misuse of Position

• An ethics complaint filed against Bondi in Florida alleges that in at least three instances, Bondi, or members of her senior team “ordered [Department of Justice] lawyers to do things those lawyers were ethically forbidden from doing, under threat of suspension or termination—or fired them for not having done so.”:

• Erez Reuveni, the Dep’t of Justice lawyer who originally represented the government in the Abergo Garcia wrongful deportation case, was suspended and later fired for telling the truth in court, namely, that Garacia has been deported in error. Reuveni later filed a whistleblower complaint claiming that Bondi had made “false and misleading” statements regarding Reuveni’s conduct in the case. 

• Denise Cheung, the Dep’t of JusticeChief of Criminal Division in the DC Office, has been forced to resign after refusing Bondi’s order to open a criminal investigation against the Environmental Protection Agency, after finding there was no basis for such investigation.

• Danielle Sassoon, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, has resigned in protest after she has been ordered to dismiss a case  against New York Mayor Eric Adams. In a letter to Bondi, Sassoon expressed concern that the dismissal was politically motivated, and concluded that “[b]ecause the law does not support a dismissal, and because I am confident that Adams has committed the crimes with which he is charged, I cannot agree to seek a dismissal driven by improper considerations.”

The Florida bar has refused to investigate the complaint, maintaining that it “does not investigate or prosecute sitting officers appointed under the U.S. Constitution while they are in office.”  

• In 2013, Pamela Bondi, in her role as the Florida Attorney General, received 22 complaints against Trump University but decided not to pursue legal action after receiving a $25,000 campaign donation for her Attorney General race. The IRS later determined that the donation was illegal and imposed fines on the Trump Foundation.

❌ Factually inaccurate statements

Among others, Bondi made the following inaccurate or false statements in support of the Trump administration’s or the Trump campaigns legal positions:

• In a Congressional hearing on June 25,2025, Bondi was asked about masked federal agents involved in immigration enforcement. She has feigned ignorance of the issue, claiming “that's the first that issue has come to me.” This seems implausible given the widespread reports, in the weeks preceding the hearing, of federal officers masking themselves during immigration enforcement raids.   

• In defending the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Bondi falsely claimed in an Oval Office address that two courts had “ruled” that Mr. Abrego Garcia was a member of MS-13.

• Bondi repeatedly boosted Trump’s demonstrably false claims that the 2020 elections have been rigged.

🔇 Other Judicial Criticism and failure to follow court orders

• Bondi is a named defendant in J.G.G. v. Trump, in which the government is alleged to have violated court order to halt deportation flights to El Salvador. As a result, the court has launched criminal contempt proceedings against the defendants, including Bondi.

• Under Bondi’s leadership, “Justice Department lawyers defending the Trump administration’s policies are encountering mounting criticism and frustration from federal judges”. This has created a “credibility problem” for the DOJ in federal courts.