On May 27, over 120 legal scholars, lawyers, judges, as well as a former Florida Supreme Court Justice Peggy Quince, filed a sweeping ethics complaint against former Attorney General Pam Bondi, who is currently a committeewoman on an advisory board for artificial intelligence, to the Florida Bar. The coalition includes the Democracy Defenders Fund, Lawyers Defending American Democracy, and Lawyers for Rule of Law.
In June 2025, the Florida Bar rejected a previous request to investigate Bondi, as she was a sitting officer “appointed under the U.S. Constitution while they are in office.” With her ouster, this excuse will not fly, strengthening hopes of an investigation into Bondi’s weaponization of the Department of Justice (DOJ).
The complaint in question focuses on the authoritarian and unprofessional nature of Bondi’s DOJ. A veteran immigration lawyer, on top of several career officials, who forced to act in an unethical manner, otherwise they would face expulsion. A major example that Trumpfile readers are aware of includes a massacre of prosecutors who refused to drop charges against corrupt former New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The complaint also notes that Bondi’s DOJ refused and violated court orders as they related to immigration and protests. Furthermore, the legal experts hammered Bondi on misleading the American public regarding the Epstein files, who claimed that the clientele list was on her desk, then changed her story after. It was accurately noted that Bondi’s DOJ released the names and faces of countless Epstein victims unredacted, which is illegal.
The DOJ immediately proved the unprofessionalism that the complaint accused it of by defending Bondi, who has no relationship with the DOJ anymore:
The Justice Department lashed out at the group’s latest bid against Bondi, saying: “This complaint is nothing more than a baseless and pathetic media stunt conjured up by inept attorneys desperate for relevance.”
Miami Herald
The DOJ offered no counterevidence to any of the claims made by the complaint, nor did it meaningfully defend Bondi’s conduct.
