section_path: U.S. attorney general (2025–present)/Tenure
section_name: Tenure
paragraph_text: Tenure
  
  On February 5, 2025, Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas swore Bondi into office as the 87th attorney general. On Bondi's first day in office, she shut down the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force, shut down the DOJ's Task Force KleptoCapture, and cut back enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Bondi has largely taking an implementation role as attorney general, with key decisions being made by Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and other White House officials.
  
  During the beginning of her tenure, Bondi faced criticism for her handling of the release of the " Epstein Files ", which were heavily redacted and offered little new information, leading to accusations that the move was a political stunt rather than a genuine effort at transparency. Even right-wing commentators derided the release as "a lot of redacted nothing", further undermining confidence in her approach to high-profile cases.
  
  In March 2025, Chief Judge James Boasberg of the federal district court in D.C. issued an order to temporarily block the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act deporting alleged members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, and also verbally ordered for the deportation flights "to be returned to the United States", to be "complied with immediately"; however the Trump administration completed the deportations anyway, with Bondi and other Justice Department officials later arguing in a March 17 legal filing that "an oral directive is not enforceable as an injunction ".
  
  Bondi and other Justice Department officials then submitted a March 18 legal filing stating that regarding certain details about the deportation flights requested by Judge Boasberg, "there is no justification to order the provision of additional information, and that doing so would be inappropriate". During a media interview on March 19, Bondi said regarding Boasberg: "this judge has no right to ask those questions" regarding details about the deportation flights, and has "no power" to order the Trump administration to stop the deportation flights, as Bondi declared that judges are "meddling in our government".
  
  Following the United States government group chat leak in March 2025, Bondi indicated that the leak would not be investigated stating that the information shared was not classified.
  
  Bondi directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in the Luigi Mangione case.
  
  In April 2025, Bondi said that fentanyl seizures in the first 100 days of Trump's second term as president had saved 21 million lives. Two days later, she increased this estimate to 119 million. Later that week during a cabinet meeting where she praised Trump and said that his first 100 days "far exceeded that of any other presidency in this country", she said that during the same period, DOJ agencies had seized "3,400 kilos of fentanyl…which saved—are you ready for this, media?—258 million lives". These statistics were met with skepticism given that only around 70,000 fentanyl deaths occur in the U.S. each year and the claim of lives saved represents 75% of the US population.
  
  In April 2025, Bondi held a task force meeting on anti-Christian bias.
  
  In May, it was reported that Bondi sold at least $1 million worth of shares in Trump Media on Liberation Day.
  
  On February 5, 2025, Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas swore Bondi into office as the 87th attorney general. On Bondi's first day in office, she shut down the FBI's Foreign Influence Task Force, shut down the DOJ's Task Force KleptoCapture, and cut back enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. Bondi has largely taking an implementation role as attorney general, with key decisions being made by Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller and other White House officials.
  
  During the beginning of her tenure, Bondi faced criticism for her handling of the release of the " Epstein Files ", which were heavily redacted and offered little new information, leading to accusations that the move was a political stunt rather than a genuine effort at transparency. Even right-wing commentators derided the release as "a lot of redacted nothing", further undermining confidence in her approach to high-profile cases.
  
  In March 2025, Chief Judge James Boasberg of the federal district court in D.C. issued an order to temporarily block the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act deporting alleged members of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, and also verbally ordered for the deportation flights "to be returned to the United States", to be "complied with immediately"; however the Trump administration completed the deportations anyway, with Bondi and other Justice Department officials later arguing in a March 17 legal filing that "an oral directive is not enforceable as an injunction ".
  
  Bondi and other Justice Department officials then submitted a March 18 legal filing stating that regarding certain details about the deportation flights requested by Judge Boasberg, "there is no justification to order the provision of additional information, and that doing so would be inappropriate". During a media interview on March 19, Bondi said regarding Boasberg: "this judge has no right to ask those questions" regarding details about the deportation flights, and has "no power" to order the Trump administration to stop the deportation flights, as Bondi declared that judges are "meddling in our government".
  
  Following the United States government group chat leak in March 2025, Bondi indicated that the leak would not be investigated stating that the information shared was not classified.
  
  Bondi directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in the Luigi Mangione case.
  
  In April 2025, Bondi said that fentanyl seizures in the first 100 days of Trump's second term as president had saved 21 million lives. Two days later, she increased this estimate to 119 million. Later that week during a cabinet meeting where she praised Trump and said that his first 100 days "far exceeded that of any other presidency in this country", she said that during the same period, DOJ agencies had seized "3,400 kilos of fentanyl…which saved—are you ready for this, media?—258 million lives". These statistics were met with skepticism given that only around 70,000 fentanyl deaths occur in the U.S. each year and the claim of lives saved represents 75% of the US population.
  
  In April 2025, Bondi held a task force meeting on anti-Christian bias.
  
  In May, it was reported that Bondi sold at least $1 million worth of shares in Trump Media on Liberation Day.