The Justice Department has put new emphasis on prosecutions and investigations with a focus on states that have helped undocumented immigrants.

Historically, the Justice Department has been understood by both Democrat and Republican administrations as serving the people—not the president. As Ted Olson, Ronald Reagan’s chief legal counsel, wrote in a memo to the attorney general in 1982,

On her first day as attorney general, Bondi issued orders to review Trump prosecutions and create a "weaponization" of government working group.