A sophomore in Congress watched with growing concern as the Department of Justice fired a top ethics official, ousted investigators of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, and opened investigations into the president's political opponents.
As the transformations at the DOJ mounted, she concluded the nation's top law enforcement official wasn't fit to serve.
"This is an administration that is out of control and that is completely lawless," Rep. Summer Lee, D–Pennsylvania, told USA TODAY March 18, as she explained her decision to introduce articles of impeachment against Attorney General Pam Bondi a day earlier.
Lee's impeachment measure, drafted with the help of anti-corruption nonprofit group Free Speech for People, points to investigations and prosecutions that she says demonstrate the Justice Department is being politicized. Those include charges brought at the president's urging against some of his longtime critics, former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
A judge dismissed the charges in November, determining the prosecutor who secured the charges was unlawfully appointed.
