Sen. Dick Durbin on Thursday sent U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi a letter demanding answers about the recent firings of 17 federal immigration judges, calling their terminations “an ill-timed vendetta” that is wasting taxpayer dollars.

“The Trump Administration has engaged in an unprecedented attack on due process and the rule of law, and the only plausible explanation for firing immigration judges and placing additional strain on overburdened immigration courts is a political one,” Durbin writes in the letter, which reminds Bondi of the judges’ protections from politicized hirings and firings.

Durbin, who serves as ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has been outspoken about Jennifer Peyton, a former assistant chief immigration judge in Chicago, who was fired on July 3 vi

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