Booker: 'Real questions' about using DOJ as 'arm of the president'
Source: The Hill
10/08/25 12:33 PM ET
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) expressed concern Tuesday over President Trump’s apparent use of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to prosecute political rivals, something he and his colleagues have “real questions” about. Booker’s remarks came after Attorney General Pam Bondi testified earlier Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Democrats later described the hearing as “aggressive” and “combative.”
“We have real questions about using the Department of Justice as an arm of the president, as his personal attorneys, to prosecute his personal political vendettas, to pull people away from the kind of crimes that we want solved and instead focus on people like [former FBI Director James] Comey and other political targets of his,” Booker told MSNBC’s Ali Vitali.
“He’s not hiding it,” the senator continued. “He’s being very open. He’s literally tweeting at the attorney general of the United States of America, telling her to ‘take out my enemies’ in a prosecutorial manner.”
The New Jersey Democrat also called the heated exchanges with senators “very unfortunate.” “I’ve never seen [these] kind of personal attacks … just not even coming out of the box,” Booker added. “Attacking senators in a very personal manner. That’s not the way it should be done. We have a responsibility, actually, as spelled out in the Constitution to provide oversight and checks and balances.”
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