“I will restore integrity to the Justice Department and I will fight violent crime throughout this country and throughout this world and make America safe again,” Bondi said.
To set the tone for her tenure as the nation’s top law enforcement official, Bondi will take several swift and dramatic steps on her first day in office to look into and reverse legal actions taken by the Biden administration, according to people familiar with her plans who spoke to CNN.
“Those actions will be a series of department-wide memos and orders, a law enforcement official said, that officials hope will shift the narrative coming out of the Justice Department away from the January 6 pardons and FBI employee purges that have led the headlines,” CNN reported.
According to sources who spoke to CNN, Bondi is anticipated to retract memoranda that were released during the Biden administration, including one from the FBI field office in 2023 that appeared to indicate the agency was pursuing “radical traditionalist” Catholics. Though it was nearly immediately removed, the memo—which then-Attorney General Merrick Garland described as “appalling”—was never formally withdrawn.
Bondi will also rescind a 2021 memo from Garland that addressed the “disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence” levied at schools, sources said.
The new AG is also anticipated to mandate an examination of the over 1,500 criminal cases related to January 6.
