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As predicted, new Attorney General Pam Bondi hit the ground running yesterday, sprinting out of the gate by issuing a record fourteen first-day orders within the Justice Department. ABC-7 New York ran one of the stories under the headline, “New AG Pam Bondi pauses funding to sanctuary cities, including New York City.”




That’s got to hurt. The 60-day pause is already bearing fruit. New York Mayor Eric Adams raced to get in front of cameras yesterday, and pledged to ignore a city ordinance requiring local police to refuse to cooperate with federal immigration officials. The Mayor said that he thinks the local law is wrong and should be changed, adding “I cannot have any city employee that would get in the way of them carrying out their job as a federal authority.”

Adams is right, of course, under the principle of federalism, national laws trump state or local laws. But the facts don’t bother some people.

Like some pro-criminal New Yorkers, who were furious. Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, probably a fake name, complained, “now we have a mayor who is more of an assistant to Donald Trump than a mayor for New York City.” State Senator Zellnor Myrie, also probably fake, whined "Instead of having a mayor willing to stand up to and protect, we have a mayor issuing guidance saying we will do whatever you want President Trump.”

Another first-day Bondi order established a “Weaponization Working Group,” tasked with reviewing the work of specially abled counsel, sorry, I mean special counsel Jack Smith, and all the investigators who worked on the January 6th riot, and the New York prosecutors who brought the criminal and civil cases against President Trump, his family and his businesses during the past four years.

They were right to think they were going to need lawyers. The hunters have become the cockroaches on pest control day.

The Working Group’s members were told to “identify instances where a department’s or agency’s conduct appears to have been designed to achieve political objectives or other improper aims rather than pursuing justice or legitimate governmental objectives.” The group was also ordered to investigate other complaints by Republicans, such as the DOJ’s unfairly targeting of conservatives, such as through prosecutions of pro-life protestors, raids of parents who scolded local school boards, and charges against people who were “legitimate whistleblowers.”

In this morning’s final example (of many others), AG Bondi directed the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division to focus on ways to eliminate and penalize “illegal DEI” policies in the private and education sectors. She also wants DEI rooted out of the DOJ. “All department guidance that encouraged or permitted race- or sex-based preferences as a method of compliance with federal civil rights are rescinded and will be replaced with new guidance affirming that equal treatment under the law,” Bondi wrote.

Bondi demanded “zealous advocacy” of the president’s agenda from the Justice Department’s 10,000 lawyers. She also warned them that putting their personal political beliefs above the department’s priorities “will be subject to discipline and potentially termination.” So.

Jane Bondi.

Yesterday, Politico ran a story headlined, “White House to end funding to sanctuary cities and states on Feb. 1.” We can hope.

@realDonald Trump
EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY FIRST, NO MORE
PAYMENTS WILL BE MADE BY THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT TO STATES FOR THEIR CORRUPT
CRIMINAL PROTECTION CENTERS KNOWN AS
SANCTUARY CITIES. ALL THEY DO IS BREED
CRIME AND VIOLENCE! If States want them, they
will have to pay for them! MAKE AMERICA GREAT
AGAIN!!!

“Starting February 1st, we are not making any payments to sanctuary cities or states having sanctuary cities because they protect criminals at the expense of American citizens,” Trump said yesterday at the Detroit Economic Club, as well as in his post on Truth Social.

It sounds like President Trump intends to halt all federal funding to sanctuary states, but the strategically ambiguous scope isn’t entirely clear. Nor was it clear whether the frozen funding would be tied to specific sanctuary cities or defund the states as a whole. The DOJ has identified 11 states as sanctuary jurisdictions, including California, Illinois, Minnesota, Colorado, Washington, and New York.

In an interview with Laura Ingraham late yesterday, White House advisor Stephen Miller said, “We are not going to, as a country, subsidize mass immigration, mass criminal activity, and mass theft of American taxpayer resources by people who have no right to be here.”

Later, President Trump added, “we intend to imprison any fraudster, politician, or public official involved in these sick plots to pillage and loot our country.” In the next sentence, coincidentally, he mentioned Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.).

Didn't this already happen? See original post above.