🚨 BREAKING: Pam Bondi’s Justice Department sparks outrage with a proposal that could shield federal lawyers from independent ethics investigations. In a move that has legal experts sounding the alarm, the Justice Department is pushing a rule that would allow the Attorney General to intervene in — and potentially halt — state bar investigations into misconduct by federal attorneys. Under the proposal, if a state bar association opens an ethics probe into a DOJ lawyer, the Attorney General could step in and force the investigation to pause while the Justice Department conducts its own review. If the DOJ later decides its lawyer did nothing wrong, the state investigation could effectively be shut down. Critics say that would create a dangerous precedent: the federal government policing its own attorneys while blocking independent oversight. Hilary Gerzhoy, who chairs the rules review committee for the D.C. Bar, warned the idea is “incredibly concerning” and conflicts with a long-stan...