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Content Creator Pam Bondi Happily Does Trump’s Dirty Political Work
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TPM – Talking Points Memo
Performative PoliticizationAcross two different categories of cases in two different states yesterday, the Trump DOJ engaged in the kind of performative politicization that it experimented with in Trump I but has brought into full bloom in Trump II under Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Bondi is as much content creator as she is the nation’s chief law enforcement officer.
A few nuggets:Oddly, the search warrant was obtained by the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri, Thomas Albus.
Nothing about Catherine M. Salinas, the longtime magistrate who signed the search warrant, is particularly notable; if anything, her career history might suggest a more liberal than conservative lean.
(Judges are limited in how far they can look outside the four corners of a search warrant application.)