Pam Bondi’s ouster makes Trump’s Justice Department even more dangerous

Outgoing Attorney General Pam Bondi “will be transitioning” to a “new job in the private sector,” President Donald Trump announced. | Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Early in the first Trump administration, the legal journalist Benjamin Wittes coined one of the best descriptions of how President Donald Trump governs: “malevolence tempered by incompetence.” Trump, as Wittes originally wrote, often issued executive orders that were not vetted by lawyers or policy experts — and thus...