Democrat, GOP Lawmakers Drafting Impeachment Articles Against Bondi
Rep. Ro Khanna said Monday that some Republicans may support efforts to impeach Attorney General Pam Bondi over the Department of Justice’s failure to release all files related to Jeffrey Epstein by a congressionally mandated deadline.
Khanna said the Justice Department did not fully comply with the disclosure requirements, raising concerns among lawmakers about transparency and oversight.
Khanna said that Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) would lead the effort if impeachment proceedings were pursued. Speaking during an interview on Morning Joe, Khanna said that “there are a few Republicans who are on board with it.”
He added, however, that impeachment would not be the initial step, saying lawmakers would first seek to hold Bondi in contempt of Congress as a means of pressuring the Justice Department to comply with document requests.
Democrats have repeatedly raised the prospect of impeaching officials serving in President Donald Trump’s administration, though such efforts have faced long odds in the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, Newsweek reported.
Any support from Republican lawmakers for an impeachment effort would mark a notable shift, but it remains unclear whether such an initiative could gain sufficient traction to advance.
Bondi and the Trump administration have received substantial bipartisan criticism for their management of the release of the Epstein files. The full release was required after both the House and Senate passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act in November, garnering strong support from both Democrats and Republicans, Newsweek added.
The legislation required the files to be released within 30 days with only limited redactions. When the deadline passed Friday, the Department of Justice did not release all of the required materials, and many of the documents that were made public contained extensive redactions.
Khanna and Massie, who co-sponsored and advanced the bipartisan measure, criticized the Justice Department’s handling of the release over the weekend. Other lawmakers and political commentators also raised concerns about the scope and timing of the disclosures, said the outlet.
Speaking Monday on MS NOW’s “Morning Joe,” Khanna said that any potential effort to impeach Bondi would draw bipartisan support, arguing that the circumstances differ from previous impeachment efforts involving officials in President Donald Trump’s administration.
READ MORE
“It’s different because it’s coming from Republicans, too. If it was just me out there or [Democratic Congressman] Robert Garcia out there, it would be seen as, OK, this is just a Democratic thing. This is going to be Thomas Massie leading it,” he claimed.
