Who is Attorney General Pam Bondi? She is already getting bipartisan criticism after fumbling Jeffrey Epstein’s files. According to Capital B News, Bondi came from the Tea Party movement as an opponent of President Obama’s policies. In 2012, she tried and failed to gut Obamacare, then helped appoint a special prosecutor for Trayvon Martin’s killer. Failure is a pattern in Bondi’s history. But so is anti-Blackness. Here are three examples.
Bondi is reinforcing Trump’s anti-D.E.I. executive orders with new memos. One insists that the Justice Department “will investigate, eliminate, and penalize” D.E.I. “in the private sector and in educational institutions that receive federal funds.”
The NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund identified Bondi as a threat to our voting rights. As Florida’s attorney general on the state clemency board, Bondi robbed formerly incarcerated people of their voting rights, disenfranchising 1 in 4 Black voting-age Floridians.
Bondi also wants to expand the death penalty federally and statewide. She can do this by directing prosecutors to use the most serious charges and sentences possible for defendants. She plans to target immigrants, those charged with killing police officers, and people with serious drug-related offenses.
From prisons and jails to the workplace and the voting booth, Bondi’s interpretation of “law and order” has been blatantly anti-Black. So amid the onslaught of constant Trump news, remember her name.