Bondi to Probe DOJ Weaponization, Target ‘Sanctuary’ Cities (1)

Newly sworn-in Attorney General Pam Bondi kicked off her first day in office with a slew of memos announcing a new working group to examine past “weaponization” of the Justice Department and plans to withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities.

The changes were announced in a series of over a dozen memos, distributed internally Wednesday and obtained by Bloomberg Law, that preview a host of priorities for the department just hours after Bondi was installed at its helm.

The so-called Weaponization Working Group would review DOJ activities over the past four years to identify instances where conduct “appears to have ...