Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, set the tone for a contentious oversight hearing with Attorney General Pam Bondi by accusing her of weaponizing the Department of Justice and hollowing out its ranks by purging experienced career officials.

“The attorney general has systematically weaponized our nation’s leading law enforcement agency to protect President Trump and his allies and attack his opponents and sadly the American people,” Durbin said in his opening statement.

He said Bondi has “purged hundreds of career officials” who “dedicated to their careers to protecting the American people” and as a result the department “has lost literally thousands of years of law enforcement expertise."

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