According to a Saturday report from the Washington Post, Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Justice Department she runs are looking to make a key change in the way federal prosecutors prosecute members of Congress and other elected officials; under the proposal, they would not have to seek guidance or approval from the Department’s Public Integrity Section.

Why would this be important? Bondi believes—as do all thinking Americans—that former AG Merrick Garland politicized the department, and she believes this is one way of clamping down on that.

Under the proposal, investigators and prosecutors would also not be required to consult with the section’s attorneys during key steps of probes into public officials, altering a long-standing provision in the Justice Department’s manual that outlines how investigations of elected officials should be conducted.

If adopted, the changes would remove a layer of review intended to ensure that cases against public officials are legally sound and not politically motivated. Career prosecutors in the Public Integrity Section guided and signed off on the criminal investigations into alleged corruption by New York Mayor Eric Adams (D) and former Democratic senator Bob Menendez.

🚨 HUGE MOVE: @AGPamBondi is working to let Federal Prosecutors INDICT Congress members WITHOUT DOJ Public Integrity Section approval!

No more D.C. insider protection for corrupt lawmakers.

Is this the start of Draining The Swamp? pic.twitter.com/PjplMFympe

— Publius (@OcrazioCornPop) May 18, 2025

The DOJ confirmed that the idea is under discussion but said no final decisions have been made. Of course, those who have conducted their careers deep in the bureaucracy think everything should just continue in perpetuity:

…cutting the Public Integrity Section out of the approval process for lawmaker prosecutions entirely could give presidentially appointed U.S. attorneys more authority in shaping public corruption cases, making prosecutions more political, said Dan Schwager, a former Public Integrity Section attorney who now works in private practice.

“The reason you have the section is exactly what this administration says they want, which is stop politicization,” Schwager said. “That requires a respect and ability to understand how the laws have been applied in similar situations in the past. The only way to ensure that public officials on both sides of the aisle are treated similarly is to have as much institutional knowledge and experience as possible.”

Ok, Mr. Schwager, if the system works so perfectly, why are even Democrats admitting that the DOJ was weaponized by Joe Biden and his AG to “get” Donald Trump? Why were investigations into the Biden Crime Family routinely buried?

Here’s a lengthy but very interesting post from reporter and political commentator Julie Kelly about the days when Jack Smith was in charge of the Public Integrity Section:

Why Did Jack Smith ignore Biden family scandals when he was head of DOJs Public Integrity Section, tasked with investigating political corruption?

In May 2014, the Obama/Biden White House was scrambling to deflect questions related to Hunter Biden’s new gig as a board member at… pic.twitter.com/Q6nP53cKRw

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) July 27, 2023

Since the sources for the WaPo report are anonymous (it's the Washington Post, after all), it’s unclear where this is headed or when. However, you can often tell whether an idea has merit by how liberals react: if they freak out, you know you’re onto something good.

The endless lawfare against Donald Trump was emblematic of the banana republic Biden regime. 

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