Attorney General Pam Bondi is reportedly considering doing away with a critical Justice Department safeguard designed to prevent politically-motivated prosecutions of elected officials, according to multiple officials familiar with a proposal circulated last week.
The change would remove the requirement of the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section (PIN), a Watergate-era department responsible for reviewing and approving prosecutions of public officials and signing off on federal prosecutors’ indictments of lawmakers. Instead, Trump-appointed U.S. attorneys would have the power to bring corruption charges without centralized oversight.
PIN also handles voting-related matters. In the case of a contested election, they would determine how the DOJ would intervene.
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