https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-lines-up-next-target-as-bolton-could-face-life-in-prison
Donald Trump’s new prosecutorial bulldog is showing mounting signs of impatience as she moves at breakneck speed against the president’s political enemies.
Lindsey Halligan, whom Trump last month appointed as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, made the decision to file charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James this week without letting either Attorney General Pam Bondi or Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche know ahead of time.
“[She] just wanted to get it done,” a source with knowledge of the case told the Wall Street Journal Saturday.
The newspaper adds Halligan had originally wanted to indict James in Norfolk, Virginia, where some of her colleagues believed she stood a better chance of getting a conservative jury at trial.
Her decision to file in Alexandria instead, where she may now face a more liberal pool of jurors, reportedly followed after she learned Norfolk was off the table until sometime next week.
A former insurance lawyer who, like Deputy AG Blanche, has also worked as Trump’s personal defense attorney in the past, Halligan has never prosecuted a case before. Critics have slammed her moves against both James and former FBI Director James Comey as not only a sign of her inexperience, but also her die-hard loyalty to the MAGA leader and a mounting weaponization of the DOJ, given the perceived evidentiary weaknesses of both cases.
The WSJ notes there may also be practical reasons behind the apparent urgency of Halligan’s filings against the president’s foes. Her position as U.S. attorney is technically subject to Senate confirmation, and interim officials are only eligible to serve for 120 days.
District judges can potentially vote to extend her tenure, though it’s understood both Comey and James are planning to argue her appointment was in any case invalid given ongoing questions about the legitimacy of Trump’s effective ouster of Halligan’s predecessor Eric Siebert last month.
Siebert, Also a Trump appointee, reportedly provoked the president after warning him that any charges levied against James or Comey would almost certainly not hold up in court.
Within days of assuming her post, Halligan charged Comey with lying to a Senate Committee about whether he had authorized media leaks from inside the bureau as to its probe of Russian interference on behalf of Trump’s campaign in the 2016 election, long railed against by the president and his supporters as part of a Democratic “hoax.”
It’s since transpired that John Durham, a Trump-appointed special counsel who spent four years investigating the origin of the FBI’s probe into Russian election interference, had already told Siebert’s team he’d been unable to uncover any evidence that would support charges against the former bureau chief.
Halligan’s indictment against James, who previously pursued claims of fraud against the president and his businesses, concerns similarly long-running Republican allegations of mortgage fraud against the New York prosecutor described by herself and her allies as baseless.
Siebert and his staff concluded earlier this year they had not uncovered sufficient evidence James had knowingly made misrepresentations on the relevant documents in a way that would satisfy the legal standards of criminal liability, with the New York AG’s legal team describing any discrepancies in her files as nothing more than “insignificant” errors.
Looks like Trump found another bimbo bitch to do his vengeful bidding!
Attorney General Pam [Bimbo #3] Bondi and other senior leadership of the Justice Department were caught off guard Thursday by news that the Trump-installed U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia had presented to a grand jury seeking an indictment of New York Attorney General Letitia James, multiple sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.
While [Bimbo #3] Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and other DOJ officials had expected Lindsey Halligan would move forward in seeking to indict James, against the recommendation of prosecutors in the office who had investigated for months the claims she committed mortgage fraud, they were not informed until after Halligan had already presented the case, sources said.
“The Justice Department is united as one team in our mission to make America safe again and as stated previously Lindsey Halligan is fully supported by the AG, DAG, and the entire team at Main Justice,” a Justice Department spokesperson told ABC News in a statement.
The news that Halligan was making her presentment was not news, however, to Ed Martin — who was appointed to several senior leadership positions at DOJ by President Trump after his nomination to be the U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. failed to earn support from Republican senators earlier this year.
Martin, who goes by his self-described nickname “Eagle Ed” posted on his ‘X’ account Thursday morning an image of an eagle flying over the Brooklyn Bridge – and reposted the image Thursday evening following news of James’ indictment.
As ABC News previously reported, Martin and Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, who initially made the criminal referral to DOJ over James’ mortgage applications, have in recent weeks clashed with senior leadership of the department as they’ve demanded more aggressive actions to prosecute President Trump’s political enemies.
In a Truth Social post last month, President Trump publicly urged [Bimbo #3] Bondi to move “now” to prosecute his enemies and said he was appointing Halligan to lead the office and “get things moving.”
One former senior DOJ official said it would be extraordinary for leadership at the department to not be informed of a pending indictment of a major political figure like James, which would more typically be led by the department’s Public Integrity Section. Staff in that office has been eliminated to just two officials down from roughly 30 since Trump’s inauguration, according to sources.
Despite her being initially caught off guard by Halligan’s presentment, [Bimbo #3] Bondi posted on ‘X’ following James’ indictment, “One tier of justice for all Americans.”
https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=126401855
So many people to abuse, so much revenge to be exacted, so many lives to turn upside down & inside out, that poor bimbo bitch Bondi just can’t keep up with it all!
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi fired a federal prosecutor in Miami last week because he had posted critical blog commentary about Donald Trump during his first term as president — a politically fraught decision that nearly derailed an upcoming trial.
Bondi’s firing of Will Rosenzweig threatened to upend the trial of two Medicare fraud defendants set to start on Monday because he was the lead prosecutor and the U.S. Attorney’s Office said it was not prepared to proceed without him. A fellow prosecutor involved in the case asked a federal judge to delay the start of the trial until early November, saying if he didn’t grant his request, the U.S. Attorney’s Office would consider dropping the healthcare fraud and conspiracy charges against them.
Normally, when federal prosecutors weigh whether to dismiss an indictment before trial, it’s for lack of evidence — not for lack of a prosecutor to try the case — underscoring perhaps the unintended consequences of Bondi’s firing of Rosenzweig on Sept. 23 while he was observing the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, with his family.
At a key hearing on Friday, U.S. District Judge Donald Graham granted part of the prosecutor’s request. Graham kept to his initial schedule to start the trial with jury selection on Monday, but he delayed the opening statements and government’s presentation of evidence until Nov. 3.
Graham’s decision appeared to salvage the Medicare fraud trial, giving the U.S. Attorney’s Office extra time to replace Rosenzweig and bring the new prosecutor up to speed on the case.
Until Friday, it had been touch and go.
In a court filing on Thursday, Assistant U.S. Attorney David Turken told Graham that if he “denies this motion” for a delay, the prosecutor “may recommend dismissal” of the indictment against the two defendants.
“There is currently no one at the U.S. Attorney’s Office who is sufficiently familiar with the discovery and evidence in this case to refute the expected unmeritorious discovery allegations by defense counsel at trial,” Turken wrote, adding that “the [federal] government shutdown [on Wednesday] is further complicating the government’s ability to prepare this trial.
“Dimissal of this matter would not be in the interest of justice,” added Turken, who has been involved in the case since the defendants were indicted by a grand jury last year.
Immediately after Rosenzweig’s firing by Bondi last week, Turken asked Graham to delay the trial until March of next year. The judge denied it, saying the trial will begin on Oct. 6 with jury selection but allowed for the opening statements and trial evidence to get underway two weeks later, Oct. 20. Turken asked the judge to reconsider, seeking to postpone the trial another two weeks, until Nov. 3, which the judge did in Friday’s hearing.
Millions of dollars in false billing alleged
Prosecutors, who are alleging millions of dollars in false insurance billing for medical equipment, telemedicine and other services, are expected to present more than 40 government witnesses and 400 exhibits. The trial will last more than a month.
Defense attorneys for the two defendants, Michael Kochen and Sandro Herek, opposed a continuation of the trial, noting that the federal prosecutors had already requested a long delay after Rosenzweig’s firing and Judge Graham denied it, though he allowed for a short two-week postponement for opening statements and trial evidence. A third defendant, Marcello Kochen, will be tried separately because of an illness.
“The Government’s position is that it will not be ready for trial, as currently scheduled,” the Kochens’ defense attorneys, Jayne Weintraub, Christopher Cavallo and Jonathan Etra, wrote in a court filing on Thursday. “That was the same position in the original motion. For that reason alone, the motion for reconsideration should be denied.”
Herek’s defense lawyer, David Tarras, said that while he “empathizes with the unexpected termination of Will Rosenzweig and the administrative difficulties this most certainly causes for the Government, Sandro Herek should not have to suffer for it.”
A prominent defense attorney who is not involved in the Medicare fraud case said the turn of events was highly unusual in federal court, but that federal prosecutors should not be allowed to delay the trial any further because of the circumstances of Rosenzweig’s firing.
“The government tells defendants all the time that ‘decisions have consequences,’ “ Miami lawyer David O. Markus told the Miami Herald. “They made their decision with respect to their trial lawyer. The consequence is simple: The trial goes on.
“State court manages prosecutor turnover every day, and federal courts can too,” he added.
Bondi fires prosecutor on Rosh Hashana
Rosenzweig took a short break from his work at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami to observe the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, last week.
But he noticed something was amiss when his office-issued mobile phone wasn’t working. He called the office to find out what was wrong.
Rosenzweig soon learned his phone was shut off because Bondi fired him. He did not see her terse Sept. 23 email dismissing him on Rosh Hashana — making the 39-year-old lawyer the third federal prosecutor in the Southern District of Florida to be summarily fired by the Bondi-led Justice Department since Trump started his second term as president in January.
But Rosenzweig — considered to be among the rising prosecutors in the office — wasn’t fired because he had been associated with the criminal investigations of Trump by the Justice Department’s special counsel during the prior Biden administration. That was why two other respected federal prosecutors in the Miami office were abruptly terminated this year.
Rather, Rosenzweig was fired, according to multiple sources, because of the negative things he said about Trump on a social media blog before he became a federal prosecutor in Miami. When he was working for the prominent law firm Kobre & Kim in Washington during Trump’s first term, Rosenzweig posted criticisms of the president starting in 2017 — posts that were recently brought to the attention of the Justice Department.
Rosenzweig, who obtained his bachelor’s and law degrees from Cornell University, joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Miami in September 2020 — toward the end of Trump’s first term before he lost the presidential election to Joe Biden.
Rosenzweig worked on dozens of complex cases as a prosecutor in the economic crimes section, which focuses on healthcare fraud, money laundering and other financial schemes. Of late, Rosenzweig was deeply involved in the Medicare fraud case that was scheduled for trial in early October.
His termination shocked several colleagues, who took note of the terrible timing and pettiness of his firing, calling it another “frogmarch.” They also said his loss would be a significant blow to an office that has witnessed a “brain drain” of veteran talent over the past year.
Other firings
In late January, Miami federal prosecutor Michael Thakur, 46, a Harvard Law School graduate who worked on the documents case accusing Trump of withholding top secret materials at his Palm Beach estate, was fired along with dozens of others in the Justice Department who were members of the special counsel’s team.
In addition to Thakur, Anne McNamara, a former federal prosecutor in the Miami office before joining Smith’s team in Washington, was also terminated.
The Justice Department’s rolling purges of lawyers and employees who participated in the two federal criminal cases against Trump — which Smith dismissed after Trump won the 2024 presidential election — are expected to continue in Washington and other regions of the country.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida/2025/10/03/bondi-florida-prosecutor-fired-medicare-fraud
President Donald Trump on Monday said he would target former President Joe Biden’s circle, calling them “evil people.”
“There were some brilliant people,” Trump said, referring to Biden’s allies in his White House. “But they’re evil people, and they’re going to be brought down. They have to be brought down ’cause they really hurt our country.”
Trump’s threat to have his political opponent’s allies “brought down” marks his latest move to potentially target political adversaries in a pattern that has alarmed critics who paint the president as pursuing retribution and say he is weaponizing the Justice Department — a claim the president has made about the Biden administration.
Biden’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump made the comments during lengthy remarks in the Oval Office, where the president and his allies made a series of claims about the impact of his anti-crime efforts in D.C. and top officials took turns heaping praise on him. While signing executive orders that aim to do away with cash bail, Trump repeatedly focused on the murder rate in the city, saying it had not seen a single person killed in 11 days — a change that he has been brandishing in recent days as he touts his administration’s efforts to address D.C. crime. That push has included federalizing the D.C. police force, deploying the National Guard and stepping up the federal law enforcement presence in the city.
Trump claimed that it has been “many years” since D.C. went a week without a murder. Publicly available crime data from the Metropolitan Police Department, however, indicate that D.C. went 16 days without a murder earlier this year, from Feb. 25 to March 12.
Trump argued that the city’s restaurants are experiencing a “boomtown,” a comment that is uncertain, as restaurant employees in a D.C. neighborhood with a large immigrant community told NBC News last week that business was declining due to Trump’s policies. His deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, who attended the signing with Vice President JD Vance, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, claimed that people in D.C. had resumed wearing jewelry and carrying purses because of Trump’s anti-crime push.
“They’re wearing jewelry again. They’re carrying purses again,” Miller said. “People had changed their whole lives in this city for fear of being murdered, mugged and carjacked. It is a literal statement that President Trump has freed 700,000 people in this city who were living under the rule of criminals and thugs.”
At the start of the operation, though, crime in D.C. was down 26% compared to last year. Many city residents, too, have slammed the deployments and said it is scaring Washingtonians.
The president has frequently claimed that Democrats weaponized the Justice Department and other law enforcement agencies against him, pointing to his criminal indictments related to efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his handling of classified documents, as well as his conviction related to falsifying business records, which were dropped when he was elected to a second term. Trump repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in the cases against him.
Democrats have gone after Trump’s comments, arguing that the Trump administration’s several investigations into his political foes constitute the exact weaponization that he claimed they pursued against him.
The Justice Department is investigating Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and New York Attorney General Letitia James on allegations of mortgage fraud.
James led a civil fraud case against Trump, and Schiff served as the lead House manager in Trump’s first impeachment trial. They denied any wrongdoing.
NBC News has also previously reported that the Justice Department is in the initial stages of an investigation into James’ handling of her civil fraud case against Trump, which her attorney likened to a “political retribution campaign.”
Trump also threatened Friday to fire a Federal Reserve governor, Lisa Cook, if she did not resign after facing separate accusations of mortgage fraud. Cook said she won’t step down.
On Monday night, Trump said he was removing Cook from her post. Trump has been highly critical of the Federal Reserve for not adjusting interest rates as he would like.
And late last week, the FBI searched the home of former national security adviser John Bolton. A source familiar with the matter told NBC News at the time that the search was part of a “national security investigation in search of classified records.” Bolton did not respond to NBC News’ request for comment Friday.
Also on Monday, Trump left the door open to investigating former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a staunch critic of Trump who was among the Republicans who ran against him for president. Trump was referring to a 12-year-old scandal called “Bridgegate.“
“If they want to look at it, they can,” Trump said, responding to a question about whether the White House planned to investigate Christie. “You can ask Pam. I think we have other things to do, but I always thought he got away with murder.”
On Sunday, after Christie criticized him on ABC News’ “This Week,” Trump wrote on his social media site Truth Social, “For the sake of JUSTICE, perhaps we should start looking at that very serious situation again?”
Meanwhile, Trump’s allies in Congress have pushed to hear testimony from Biden’s circle about his mental acuity while in office, which Trump and Republicans claim was in decline but was covered up by the former president’s team. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., has sought testimony from Biden’s former White House physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor and former White House aides, including his domestic policy adviser, Neera Tanden and his deputy chief of staff, Annie Tomasini.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/-going-brought-trump-vows-go-bidens-advisers-rcna227019
Democratic state and local officials are forcefully pushing back against threats from Attorney General Pam Bondi that their jurisdictions could be stripped of federal funding or they could face criminal prosecution if they don’t back away from “sanctuary” policies friendly toward suspected undocumented immigrants.
Bondi last week sent a letter to leaders of more than 30 Democratic-led cities, counties and states that accused the jurisdictions of interfering with federal immigration enforcement.
Some responded with their own strongly worded letters. Others seized the moment to speak out in a public show of resistance, accusing Bondi of trying to unlawfully bully governors and mayors amid the political divide over President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration tactics.
But what happens next remains deeply unclear, according to those Democratic officials, who have described the events of the past week as startling and unprecedented, even against the backdrop of the tumultuous launch of the second Trump term. They are staying mum so far about how much they are coordinating with each other to combat potential actions by the administration.
In Seattle, Mayor Bruce Harrell (D), who is seeking a second term, told The Washington Post that the Aug. 13 letter from Bondi warned that his “jurisdiction” had been “identified as one that engages in sanctuary policies and practices that thwart federal immigration enforcement.” It did not reference his city by name, mention specific local laws or policy, or cite Seattle’s crime rates, which Harrell pointed out are “down in all major categories.”
Days later, he was standing behind Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson (D), who had received a nearly identical letter.
“A letter like this cannot be normalized,” Ferguson said Tuesday, speaking to reporters at the state Capitol in Olympia. He called the attorney general’s threats a “breathtaking” tactic aimed at pressuring elected officials to “bend a knee” to Trump.
Ferguson told Bondi in a letter that his state “will not be bullied or intimidated by threats and legally baseless accusations.”
On the opposite coast, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu (D) stepped onto the plaza outside City Hall for a news conference that quickly took on the feel of an anti-Trump rally.
“Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures,” said Wu, the daughter of Taiwanese immigrants. “Boston follows the law, and Boston will not back down from who we are and what we stand for.”
The Trump administration’s intensifying efforts to identify and deport suspected undocumented immigrants include the deployment of thousands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in U.S. cities as they seek to meet a directive from White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller to make at least 3,000 arrests a day.
Bondi and other Trump administration officials have insisted on cooperation from state and local officials, including access to law enforcement facilities and, in some cases, officers as they seek to step up deportation efforts.
Trump last week ordered the deployment of National Guard troops to D.C. and has sought to expand federal control over D.C. police, claiming the city was not doing enough to stem violent crime. He has indicated that cities like Baltimore, Chicago and New York could be next, likening them to urban hellscapes ruined by crime and lawlessness. All three cities are listed as sanctuary jurisdictions on federal government websites.
On Thursday, Trump reiterated his pledge to pursue similar crime crackdowns in Democratic-led cities.
In an interview last week with Fox News, Bondi suggested a takeover could be on the table for any city the administration deems out of compliance with federal immigration laws. “You better be abiding by our federal policies and with our federal law enforcement, because if you aren’t, we’re going to come after you,” she said.
Numerous city and state officials in their letters to Bondi questioned the legality of the Trump administration’s threats against their jurisdictions, with some pointedly critical of Trump’s actions in D.C. and in Los Angeles, where the president — despite the opposition of state and local officials — activated National Guard troops amid protests over the administration’s immigration arrests.
Responding to a letter sent to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D), Ann Spillane, the governor’s general counsel, noted federal courts had repeatedly upheld an Illinois law that restricts state law enforcement involvement in immigration enforcement. Spillane said that Illinois officers’ primary focus is fighting crime and that they routinely cooperate with federal law enforcement on those issues. “We have not observed that type of coordination with local law enforcement in Washington, D.C. or Los Angeles,” Spillane wrote, according to a copy of the letter obtained by The Post.
Bondi’s letters also arrived at the offices of Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston (D). Trump homed in on the state during the presidential race last year, baselessly claiming one of its cities had been overrun by Venezuelan gangs.
Johnston’s city has already lost millions in federal grants intended for migrant shelters, and the Justice Department sued him, Polis, and other state and local officials in May over what it called “disastrous” sanctuary policies. Colorado law bars local police officers from asking a person for their immigration status, arresting someone based only on that status and giving that personal information to federal authorities.
“It is immaterial to whether or not you were doing 55 in a 45, where you were born, and so we don’t ask for that information,” Johnston said. “We don’t have that information.” On Thursday, he remained adamant that Denver had not violated any laws. Bondi’s allegations, he said, are “false and offensiveOn Thursday, Trump reiterated his pledge to pursue similar crime crackdowns in Democratic-led cities.
In an interview last week with Fox News, Bondi suggested a takeover could be on the table for any city the administration deems out of compliance with federal immigration laws. “You better be abiding by our federal policies and with our federal law enforcement, because if you aren’t, we’re going to come after you,” she said.
Numerous city and state officials in their letters to Bondi questioned the legality of the Trump administration’s threats against their jurisdictions, with some pointedly critical of Trump’s actions in D.C. and in Los Angeles, where the president — despite the opposition of state and local officials — activated National Guard troops amid protests over the administration’s immigration arrests.
Responding to a letter sent to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D), Ann Spillane, the governor’s general counsel, noted federal courts had repeatedly upheld an Illinois law that restricts state law enforcement involvement in immigration enforcement. Spillane said that Illinois officers’ primary focus is fighting crime and that they routinely cooperate with federal law enforcement on those issues. “We have not observed that type of coordination with local law enforcement in Washington, D.C. or Los Angeles,” Spillane wrote, according to a copy of the letter obtained by The Post.
Bondi’s letters also arrived at the offices of Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) and Denver Mayor Mike Johnston (D). Trump homed in on the state during the presidential race last year, baselessly claiming one of its cities had been overrun by Venezuelan gangs.
Johnston’s city has already lost millions in federal grants intended for migrant shelters, and the Justice Department sued him, Polis, and other state and local officials in May over what it called “disastrous” sanctuary policies. Colorado law bars local police officers from asking a person for their immigration status, arresting someone based only on that status and giving that personal information to federal authorities.
“It is immaterial to whether or not you were doing 55 in a 45, where you were born, and so we don’t ask for that information,” Johnston said. “We don’t have that information.” On Thursday, he remained adamant that Denver had not violated any laws. Bondi’s allegations, he said, are “false and offensive.”
In his letter to Bondi, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) questioned Bondi’s demand that he identify how he’s working to eliminate laws, policies and practices that she claimed impede federal immigration enforcement.
“In a democracy, governors do not unilaterally ‘eliminate laws.’ The role of the executive is to take care that the laws are faithfully executed, not to pick and choose which to follow,” wrote Walz, the 2024 Democratic nominee for vice president. “In Minnesota, we take pride in following the law.”
New York Mayor Eric Adams, who promised to toughen immigration enforcement in his city after the Trump administration dropped corruption charges against him this spring, did not respond directly to Bondi’s letter. The task was passed on to the city’s corporation counsel, who sent a two-paragraph letter that said the city was not thwarting federal immigration policies but operating under a “system of federalism” that means states and cities do not have to undertake federal mandates.
Kayla Mamelak Altus, a spokeswoman for Adams, said the city was taking Trump’s threat to possibly target New York seriously and preparing for any scenario. But she declined to reveal what that playbook might look like.
In Washington, Ferguson, who previously served as the state’s attorney general before he was elected governor in November, said he had anticipated some dramatic action from the Trump administration. Late last year, before he was sworn into office, Ferguson spoke to state finance officials to determine how the state would fare fiscally if it lost federal funding, which makes up 28 percent of the budget.
But Ferguson did not anticipate Bondi’s threat to potentially prosecute him or any other elected official in the country over differences in policy. As attorney general, he had been the first to file a lawsuit over Trump’s 2017 executive order to ban visitors and refugees from several predominantly Muslim countries.
On Tuesday, Ferguson recalled trying to reassure his 8-year-old daughter at the time, who worried something might happen to him for challenging Trump.
“I remember telling her … ‘We’re lucky to live in a country right where your dad, or any American, can speak out against the president, where your dad can file a lawsuit against the president, say things that are pretty direct about the president, be critical,’” Ferguson recalled.
It was something they shouldn’t take for granted, he told her, because in other countries people could get sent to jail for something like that.
Eight years later, Ferguson said he didn’t know what he would say to his daughter now of that freedom to challenge a president. “Maybe I’m not so sure about that,” the governor said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/08/22/sanctuary-cities-bondi
