Bondi seeks to reverse Biden death row commutations, accuses former president of 'undermining' justice system

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U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi is seeking to reverse the last-hour commutations for decease enactment murderers past period by erstwhile President Joe Biden, directing authorities officials to prosecute the decease punishment against the inmates.

Bondi, who was confirmed Wednesday, sent retired a missive astir the commutations to Department of Justice (DOJ) employees Wednesday, accusing Biden of "undermin[ing] our justness strategy and subvert[ing] the regularisation of law" by granting the commutations.

"The commutations besides robbed the victims' families of the justness promised — and fought hard to execute — by the Department of Justice," Bondi wrote. "The Department of Justice is directed to instantly commence the pursuing actions to execute justness for the victims' families of the 37 commuted murderers."

Bondi said the DOJ volition determination to archetypal "explore opportunities to supply a nationalist forum for the victims' families to explicit however the commutations affected them personally," calling it an "important step" successful gathering spot and achieving accountability.

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Then Bondi said she would nonstop U.S. attorney's offices to prosecute decease sentences against the commuted inmates utilizing authorities instrumentality alternatively than national law. She said this measurement would instrumentality spot "after consultation with the victims' families and different funny parties" and lone "where due and legally permissible."

"The Capital Case Section shall assistance the United States Attorney's Offices successful implementing this directive," Bondi's missive stated. 

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"Third, the Federal Bureau of Prisons is directed to guarantee that the conditions of confinement for each of the 37 commuted murderers are accordant with the information risks those inmates contiguous due to the fact that of their egregious crimes, transgression histories, and each different applicable considerations," she added.

In a late-December decision, Biden removed 37 inmates from national decease enactment and reclassified their sentences to beingness without the anticipation of parole. 

At the time, the White House said the determination would forestall President-elect Donald Trump's medication from "carrying retired the execution sentences that would not beryllium handed down nether existent argumentation and practice."

"The President’s transgression justness grounds has transformed idiosyncratic lives and positively impacted communities, particularly historically marginalized communities," the White House connection said astatine the time. "In the coming weeks, the President volition instrumentality further steps to supply meaningful 2nd chances and proceed to reappraisal further pardons and commutations."

Biden lone near 3 wide murderers connected decease row: Charleston, South Carolina, religion shooter Dylann Roof; Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; and Robert Bowers, the gunman liable for the Pittsburgh Tree of Life Synagogue shooting successful 2018.

Bondi, a erstwhile authoritative and Florida authorities lawyer general, has antecedently said her main extremity arsenic AG is to basal retired governmental power and weaponization from the DOJ.

"America volition person 1 tier of justness for all," she said astatine the time.

Fox News Digital reached retired to the DOJ for comment.

Fox News Digital's Elizabeth Pritchett and Breanne Deppisch contributed to this report.

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