Pam Bondi Orders Pause in DOJ Funding of Sanctuary Cities

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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to order federal funding freeze for sanctuary cities -- Fox News

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BREAKING -- Attorney General Pam Bondi has frozen federal funding to 220 sanctuary cities.

A Fox News article from a couple of hours ago reports on Bondi's plans, including a funding freeze for sanctuary cities.

EXCLUSIVE: Attorney General Pam Bondi will issue several major directives on her first day leading the Justice Department, including orders to combat the weaponization of the legal system; make prosecutors seek the death penalty when appropriate; and work with the Department of Homeland Security to "completely eliminate" cartels and transnational criminal organizations, Fox News Digital has learned.

Bondi issued a directive regarding "zealous advocacy." Bondi said DOJ attorneys' responsibilities include "aggressively enforcing criminal laws passed by Congress, but also vigorously defending presidential policies and actions on behalf of the United States against legal challenges."

"The discretion afforded Justice Department attorneys with respect to those responsibilities does not include latitude to substitute their personal political views or judgments for those that prevailed in the election," the memo states.

"When Justice Department attorneys refuse to faithfully carry out their role by, for example, refusing to advance good-faith arguments or declining to sign briefs, it undermines the constitutional order and deprives the President of the benefit of his lawyers," the memo continues.

Bondi, in the memo, states that "any Justice Department attorney who declines to sign a brief, refuses to advance good-faith arguments on behalf of the Trump administration, or otherwise delays or impedes the Justice Department's mission will be subject to discipline and potentially termination."

Bondi is set to establish the "Weaponization Working Group," which will review the activities of all law enforcement agencies over the past four years to identify instances of "politicized justice."

The working group's first reviews will include prosecutions against Trump led by former Special Counsel Jack Smith; Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg; and New York Attorney General Letitia James, who brought the civil fraud case against Trump and his family.

The working group will also review any potential prosecutorial abuse regarding Jan. 6, 2021; the FBI's targeting of Catholic Americans; the Justice Department's targeting of parents at school board meetings; and abuses of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances, or FACE, Act.

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Bondi said Joint Task Force Vulcan, which was created to destroy MS-13, and Joint Task Force Alpha, which was created to fight human trafficking, would be "further empowered and elevated" to the Office of the Attorney General. Those missions are expected to expand -- specifically Vulcan's -- with a new focus on destroying Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang now designated as a foreign terrorist organization.

She's also ending Biden's (illegal) moratorium on seeking the death penalty, and working to give "justice" to 37 families who lost loved ones to the vicious murderers Biden pardoned.

And as for illegal migrants, Bondi has directed the DOJ to pause all federal funding for sanctuary cities.

Bondi also has directed the DOJ to identify and evaluate all funding agreements with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that provide support to illegal aliens.

She is also directing litigating components of the Justice Department to investigate instances of jurisdictions that are impeding law enforcement, and directing they be prosecuted, when necessary.

BREAKING: Newly sworn in Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed the Department of Justice to pause all federal funding for sanctuary cities pic.twitter.com/FH3MZpIKdf

— TaraBull (@TaraBull808) February 5, 2025

She works fast:

Debbie Wasserman-Sharkmouth is down to defending Tren de Aragua, complaining that Secretary Noem called these prison gang killers "dirtbags."

Last time I saw a mouth like that it had a Quint in it.

posted by Ace at 03:11 PM

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