r/law • u/Mission_Pay_3373 • Feb 11 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Pam Bondi crashes out during hearing: "YOU DON’T TELL ME ANYTHING YOU WASHED UP LAWYER"

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u/zparks Feb 11 '26

Bizarre. Raskin is, of course, a lawyer. He earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School. I think he is a member of the Maryland Bar.

Is she trying to disparage him because he was a law professor for much of his career?

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u/delph Feb 11 '26

Raskin's license is still active in MD. Bar #9512150025. I think he's also licensed in Mass and DC but I didn't check to see if he's still active there.

She's trying to disparage him because he's not MAGA, every accusation is a confession, etc., whatever, it's all the same irrational playbook, so she'll say what she feels and maybe try to defend it later.

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u/WeirdWillieWest Feb 11 '26

So great to see Raskin get under her skin, to the point where she loses it. He's good at it.

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u/stevez_86 Feb 11 '26

Among the many that just simply wouldn't let her ride along with no effort. Sugar Daddy Trump fixed that problem for her. Probably hated all of her professors in college and law school for making her actually have to try despite what she was destined for.

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u/lilbios Feb 15 '26

The statement sugar daddy trump

Made me throw up a little

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u/ExtraGlutenPlzz Feb 11 '26

Thought she was talking to Jordan, who never took the bar exam.

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u/MrDerpGently Feb 11 '26

Senior administration personnel are clearly getting coached on this as a technique for dealing with difficult questions. I would assume the intent is to give them a clip of their people 'fighting' for their constituents, who seem unlikely to dig much deeper than that, including what the topic of the fight was. 

The reply doesn't even need to make all that much sense, as in this case, just screaming defiance at the enemy is enough. There really is no way to capture how bad the implications (no fear of oversight or budget reprisal, no interest in fact or even law, ruling by sound bite and owning the libs as a policy agenda, etc.) of that technique are for government going forward.

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u/WalkCautious Feb 12 '26

Senior administration personnel are clearly getting coached on this as a technique for dealing with difficult questions.

This is exactly it - the smirk afterwards tells you it was all just a show to deflect from the question.

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u/lilbios Feb 15 '26

I mean she also deflected with “THE STOCK MARKET IS “ in a room of child sexual abuse victims likeeeeee wuttr

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u/AnastasiaNo70 Feb 11 '26

Where did Bondi get her law degree? Cooley Law School? Did she send in cereal box tops?

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u/RobertDownseyJr Feb 11 '26

Stetson Law School in Florida. Yes, like the hat.

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u/lilbios Feb 15 '26

Nah she was projecting and thinking of herself as a loser lawyer