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Pam Bondi facing Florida Bar complaint [1]

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Date: 2025-06-06

It's poetic justice as an ethics complaint has been filed at the Florida Bar Association. It accuses Bondi of weaponizing the Department of Justice for political retribution.

We all know she has been doing it, but now Bondi is facing charges from the very state that controls her law license.

The complaint is signed by 70 law professors and attorneys, including former Florida Supreme Court Justices Barbara Pariente, James Perry and Peggy Quince.

Bondi is accused of "serious professional misconduct that threatens the rule of law and the administration of justice."

Bondi "has sought to compel Department of Justice lawyers to violate their ethical obligations under the guise of 'zealous advocacy' that she espoused in a February 5th memo to all agency employees on her first day in office."

The other thing that we know she has done was to threaten lawyers with discipline or termination if they failed "to jealously pursue the president's political objectives."

The Florida bar rejected two earlier ethics complaints against Bondi, but this coalition said "the Florida Bar's dismissal is unsupported by history or precedent," arguing none of its rules exempt a Florida licensed lawyer from scrutiny who is accused of abusing her position as a federal public official.

Chad Mizelle, DOJ chief of staff said in a statement, "The Florida bar has twice rejected performative attempts by these out-of-state lawyers to weaponize the bar complaint process against AG Bondi. This third vexatious attempt will fail to do anything other than prove the signatories have less intelligence --- and independent thoughts --- then sheep."

They aren't out-of-state lawyers. Insults are not helpful to Bondi's case. Mizelle has been an idiot before. The Florida Bar confirmed receipt of the 23 page complaint, but did not comment.

On May 1st, Rep. Dave Min and Rep. Mike Levin (PDF) sent a 6 page letter to the Disciplinary Counsel of the Florida Bar about bribery involving the case of New York Mayor Adams, the deportation of Venezuelan nationals, and improper public comments regarding the federal and state judiciary and federal and state judges.

"The cumulative conduct described above represents potentially serious violations of Attorney General Bondi's ethical obligations as an attorney."

To round it out they bring up the fact that her position not only should hold her to a higher standard, but it must.

There's the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia where Bondi ignored and disobeyed a 9-0 Supreme Court decision to bring him back to the United States. If you're serious about stopping Bondi, this Facebook page has a two page fill in form and an email address to send it to. It's just about the Abrego Garcia case, but it's also the easiest ethical violation to prove.

She has a history with Trump going back to 2016 when she was the Attorney General of Florida. There was this suspicious $25,000 campaign contribution from Trump in 2013 while her office was being asked about the investigation into Trump University. Ethics complaints were filed against her then also.

Then there's the fact that Bondi was getting $115,000 a month as a lobbyist for Qatar, and then she signed off on the deal of the Qatar 747 being just fine for Trump to accept, when it's possibly the biggest bribe in history.

This time there are so many calls for Bondi to face an ethics investigation that it won't be ignored. There is just too much obvious evidence in plain view.

If she loses her license to practice law, does that disqualify her from being Attorney General? No. There are no qualifications for the job in the Constitution. But there would be serious questions about her ability to do the job. With Trump appointees being so shameless, even with calls from the public and Congress to resign, she might just shine it on. There is also impeachment.

But she will not be able to practice law when she leaves the administration. There would also be a real question if she could appear in court for the government.

Time for Bondi to face the music. Maybe it's "I fought the law, and the law won."

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