The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms’ (ATF) chief authorized counsel was fired by Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi on Thursday, the previous ATF official confirmed on social media.Â
“Earlier at the moment, I used to be served official discover from the Lawyer Normal of the US that I used to be being faraway from my place because the Chief Counsel of ATF and my employment with the Division of Justice terminated,” Pamela Hicks posted on her LinkedIn web page on Thursday, confirming the termination.Â
Hicks had served as ATF’s chief counsel since 2021 below the Biden administration, and served as deputy chief counsel for ATF below President Donald Trump’s first administration. She spent 23 years total as an lawyer inside the Division of Justice (DOJ), she posted to LinkedIn.Â
“Serving as ATF Chief Counsel has been the very best honor of my profession and dealing with the folks at ATF and all through the Division has been a pleasure,” Hicks continued in her LinkedIn submit. “I thank my colleagues for his or her friendship and partnership over time.”Â
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Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi fired the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms’ chief authorized counsel Pamela Hicks, inset, on Thursday. (ATF/Getty Photographs)
A supply conversant in the termination stated Hicks was escorted out of the ATF constructing upon her termination.Â
“ATF respects the rights of all our staff,” ATF informed Fox Information Digital when requested about Hicks’ termination. “As a normal coverage, ATF doesn’t touch upon personnel issues, together with however not restricted to, particular personnel points, actions, or the existence of ongoing investigations.”
The firing comes after a handful of senior DOJ officers have give up or been fired in latest days. At the very least seven federal prosecutors give up in February over the Trump DOJ ordering the corruption costs towards New York Metropolis Mayor Eric Adams be dropped, whereas Trump on Tuesday ordered the DOJ to “clear home” of all Biden-era U.S. attorneys.Â
Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi was confirmed because the nation’s 87th lawyer normal on Feb. 5. (Getty Photographs/Fox Information Digital)
“Subsequently, I’ve instructed the termination of ALL remaining ‘Biden Period’ U.S. Attorneys. We should ‘clear home’ IMMEDIATELY, and restore confidence,” Trump wrote. “America’s Golden Age should have a good Justice System – THAT BEGINS TODAY!” Trump posted to Fact Social.Â
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Bondi, who was confirmed because the nation’s 87th lawyer normal on Feb. 5, joined the Conservative Political Motion Convention (CPAC) close to Washington, D.C., on Thursday, the place she remarked that the sheer “quantity” of political weaponization within the DOJ left over from the Biden administration involved her.Â
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) headquarters is seen in Washington, D.C. (Wealthy Clement/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photographs)
“What involved me probably the most? It is the amount of how unhealthy it was, and it nonetheless is,” she stated whereas talking with Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on a stay episode of his podcast, “Verdict.” “We’re engaged on it. It is daily by day, however we have got a group of nice folks. And on day one, I issued 14 govt orders. And primary is the weaponization ends. And it ends now. And that is what we did.”Â
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Bondi added that the state of the DOJ was “worse” than she anticipated.Â
“Worse which means, that division had fully misplaced its mission of combating violent crime,” she stated of the DOJ. “Look what they did to President Trump. Have a look at the weaponization.”Â
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ATF was transferred from the Division of Treasury to the Division of Justice in 2003, following the Homeland Safety Act mandating that the legislation enforcement company be a part of the DOJ amid the nation’s reshuffling of the federal authorities to raised fight terrorism following 9/11.
