Pam Bondi, in Effort To Upend Jack Smith’s Legacy, Declares: ‘No More Special Counsels’

The new attorney general marks a break with the recent past, where special counsels became de rigueur.

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Attorney General Bondi stands shortly before being sworn in as Attorney General in the Oval Office at the White House on February 05, 2025, at Washington. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Attorney General Bondi’s antagonism toward special counsels underscores the decisiveness of her pivot away from the prosecutorial posture of her predecessor — and her intent to upend Special Counsel Jack Smith’s legacy. 

Ms. Bondi told Fox News’s Sean Hannity that special counsels “from here on out in our country will be legally appointed, and they won’t be done constantly like they have been done in the past. The weaponization of government will end. No more special counsels out there targeting anyone.”

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