Attorney General Pam Bondi’s decision to swiftly fire a career Justice Department official over a secretly recorded conversation about how the Trump administration is handling the Jeffrey Epstein files has now exploded into a federal lawsuit accusing her of violating bedrock constitutional protections.

Joseph Schnitt, a 23-year DOJ employee who managed the Federal Witness Security Program, was on a first date with a woman purportedly named “Skylar” he had met on the dating app Hinge when she began asking him what he knew about Epstein and his convicted sex trafficking accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, according to his lawsuit filed on Nov. 24 and obtained by Atlanta Black Star.

During the more than hour-long date and what he considered to be a private conversation at a restaurant in Old Town

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