The End of the Beginning?

Trump just fired Pam Bondi.

I think that this is more significant than Noem's firing for a number of reasons:

• It's the second firing from the Trump administration in a fairly short time.
• The Senate is likely to be a bit less likely to rubber stamp Trump's next nominee for Attorney General.
• Her exit is likely to slow down attempts to use the DoJ for Trump's desired vengeance.

I have no doubt that Trump will attempt to replace here with something even more bizarrely inexplicable 

Donald Trump has fired Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, dismissing a loyalist who reshaped the justice department but still failed to please a president fixated on prosecuting political enemies and frustrated with the politically explosive release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social: “Pam Bondi is a Great American Patriot and a loyal friend, who faithfully served as my Attorney General over the past year. Pam did a tremendous job overseeing a massive crackdown in Crime across our Country, with Murders plummeting to their lowest level since 1900. We love Pam, and she will be transitioning to a much needed and important new job in the private sector, to be announced at a date in the near future.”

The president added that Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, would serve as acting attorney general. Lee Zeldin, a former New York congressman who now leads the Environmental Protection Agency, is said to be a top contender to replace Bondi.

Yeah, Zeldin would qualify as something even more bizarrely inexplicable

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During her 14 months as attorney general, Bondi presided over a major purging of career justice department staff, shifted focus away from criminal prosecutions toward immigration cases, and spearheaded the defense of Trump’s towering stack of executive orders as they faced legal challenges.

But she will be perhaps best remembered for complying with Trump’s public demand last year that federal prosecutors bring criminal charges against his personal enemies. Within three weeks, federal prosecutors had indicted James Comey, a former FBI director, and Letitia James, the New York attorney general.

Maybe someone should refer her to the state bar.