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Pam Bondi turning DoJ into Trump's 'personal law firm', top experts warn

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Pam Bondi turning DoJ into Trump's 'personal law firm', top experts warn

Donald Trump's Department of Justice has taken radical steps to target his political foes, back a harsh agenda against undocumented immigrants and help business allies - steps which underscore its politicization under the attorney general Pam Bondi and undermine the rule of law, say ex-prosecutors and legal experts.

In another radical move, Trump issued an executive order in April telling the justice department to investigate unverified allegations that ActBlue, a major Democratic online fundraising vehicle, had engaged in improper fundraising schemes.

Some even say that the department has in effect become Trump's 'personal law firm'.

'The steps Trump and Bondi have taken using DoJ to punish enemies and reward allies while firing those who object radically transforms and politicizes DoJ in a way that not even the worst who have gone before them ever contemplated,' the former federal prosecutor Paul Rosenzweig said.

Trump's transmuting DoJ into his personal law firm is, in effect, a rejection of the founding principle of the rule of law.