‘WE’RE WINNING’: Pam Bondi Responds to the Left’s Lawfare Against Trump

OXON HILL, Md.—Attorney General Pam Bondi told Texas Sen. Ted Cruz that the Trump administration is winning against the legal challenges of the Left, and on the cases the administration doesn’t win, they will appeal them to the Supreme Court.

Bondi riled up the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday by declaring, “We’re winning!”

Cruz, a Republican, interviewed Bondi at the conference. He noted that after President Donald Trump issued executive orders freezing some federal funding; directing the federal government to stop promoting the movement for “diversity, equity, and inclusion;” and declaring that the government will not support gender ideology, leftist groups and Democrat attorneys general have sued to block these moves, and some district court judges have issued nationwide injunctions that purport to change federal policy. The lawsuits have also targeted Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency.

“Every day, we are seeing Democrat attorneys general and Democrat interest groups suing the president, suing Elon Musk, suing the federal government, and the Department of Justice is on the front lines. And sadly, we’re seeing left-wing activist judges, individual district court judges, issuing nationwide injunctions,” Cruz said.

“Tell us about what it’s like defending against those lawsuits, and give us your thoughts on the authority of one radical district judge to try to run the executive branch and issue a nationwide injunction,” the senator added.

“Two words: We’re winning,” Bondi replied.

“You’ve got one unelected district judge trying to tell President Trump—who was elected overwhelmingly by the American people—where federal funds can go,” she remarked. “We’re winning, even in liberal courts, senator, we’re winning.”

“And if not, we’re going to go all the way to the Supreme Court,” she added.

While some district court judges have indeed upheld Trump’s moves, most judges have issued injunctions to block them. The administration has appealed one case to the Supreme Court already.

Bondi also announced news from the stage at CPAC. She said that Joint Task Force Alpha—which marshals the forces of the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security against human smuggling and trafficking groups operating in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras—just arrested a group of human smugglers in Juarez, Mexico.

Cruz recorded his podcast, “Verdict With Ted Cruz,” live on stage with Bondi and his podcast co-host, Ben Ferguson.

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