Today (February 11, 2026), Attorney General Pam Bondi will appear before the House Judiciary  Committee to testify in an oversight hearing. While it is predicted that the questioning will focus on the DOJ’s mishandling of the Epstein files, Congress must take this moment to fully acknowledge and demand accountability for the role she has played as Attorney General and head of the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the many unconstitutional abuses of executive power that the Trump administration has undertaken since Trump first took office. 

Her testimony is an important step, but it does not fulfill Congress’s obligations and duties. Bondi, in her unrelenting efforts to abuse the power of her office to support Trump, justify his unconstitutional and unconscionable abuses of power, and to shield him and his cronies from accountability under the law, has committed egregious impeachable offenses. 

Free Speech For People, therefore, calls upon Congress to impeach, convict, and remove Bondi from office. She began committing impeachable offenses on Day 1 of her appointment. And in recent months, she has escalated her unconstitutional abuses of power. There are numerous grounds for which Congress could and must impeach Bondi. These include: 

• Reshaping the Office of the Attorney General and the Department of Justice into partisan agencies through the closure of oversight departments and the termination and pushing out of career civil servants; 
• misstating the law in providing a purported legal justification for Trump’s illegal invasion of Venezuela, in direct contravention of Congress’s war powers;
• undertaking baseless and politically motivated prosecutions of Trump’s purported political enemies;
• silencing and punishing political dissent; 
• enabling Trump’s military and military-style occupations of Democrat-led U.S. cities and states, including Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, California, Portland, Oregon, and Minnesota;
• attempting to extort states into turning over voter rolls and the sensitive personal data contained therein, to enable the Trump administration to manipulate elections, unlawfully disclose private voter information, and intimidate voters;
• overseeing coverups in the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and initiating a punitive and baseless investigation into Renee Good’s wife;
• abusing her office to target constitutionally protected political dissent, including that of members of Congress;
• unlawfully delaying and defying the Epstein Files Transparency Act; 
• lying to judges in court filings and evading and defying judicial orders, in part to enable the mass and unlawful arrest, detention, and removal of immigrants from our country; and
• using her office for financial gain.

Particularly in recent months, Bondi has demonstrated a complete disregard for the separation of powers. Her abuses of office have involved trampling over the powers afforded to the states, to the courts, and to Congress. And her misuse of power recently prompted one judge to write, in dismissing one of her office’s baseless lawsuits, that the federal government can no longer be entitled to the presumption that it can be “taken at its word.” Her corruption and lawlessness, and her covering for Trump’s corruption and lawlessness, now threaten the credibility and functioning of the executive branch, the independence of the legislative and judicial branches, and the sovereignty of our states. And she has taken a position that not only supports Trump’s unlawful invasion of Venezuela, but also defies Congress’s war powers and envisions vastly expanded executive control over military strikes in foreign territories, which has the potential for embroiling the United States in costly wars to enrich Trump and his cronies.

Bondi, individually and in coordination with Trump and other senior officials, has crippled or terminated ordinary oversight mechanisms within the government. Her lawlessness has become the policy, not the exception, of her office. Impeachment is warranted and necessary to attempt to salvage the integrity of the Office of the Attorney General, and to protect our country’s democracy.

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