Attorney General Pam Bondi said she is aware of reports that pizzas are being anonymously sent to judges’ homes but withheld comment on the deliveries, which Democrats said are meant to be threatening.
“I’m just learning about that,” Bondi told the Washington Examiner at the White House on Wednesday.
When asked if the Justice Department had a response to the incidents, Bondi said, “Not yet, but we will.”
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, called on the DOJ and the FBI in a letter Tuesday to “immediately investigate” the deliveries. He described them as “threats intended to show that those seeking to intimidate the targeted judge know the judge’s address or their family members’ addresses.”
“The targeted individuals reportedly include Supreme Court justices, judges handling legal cases involving the administration, and the children of judges,” Durbin said. “Some of these deliveries were made using the name of Judge Esther Salas’s son, Daniel Anderl, who was murdered at the family’s home by a former litigant who posed as a deliveryman.”
During a brief Q&A session with reporters outside the West Wing of the White House, Bondi said she would speak with Ed Martin, President Donald Trump‘s nominee for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, later Wednesday. Martin is currently serving in the role in an interim capacity because he does not have enough support from Republicans for a Senate vote.
“I’ll be talking to Ed today and find out what’s going on with that,” she said.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), a Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced on Tuesday that he would not support Martin’s nomination out of committee because of the prosecutor’s comments about the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and his defense of Jan. 6 defendants.
“I have no tolerance for anybody who entered the building on Jan. 6, and that’s probably where most of the friction was,” Tillis said.
Bondi was also asked about Rep. James Comer‘s (R-KY), House Oversight Committee chairman, comment that files regarding Jeffrey Epstein are “missing.”
“The FBI, they’re reviewing. There are tens of thousands of videos of Epstein with children or child porn,” she said. “There are hundreds of victims, and no one victim will ever get released. It’s just the volume, and that’s what they’re going through right now. The FBI is diligently going through that.“
Bondi was at the White House on Wednesday before meeting with victims’ families who have had “no closure” after former President Joe Biden “commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 death row inmates,” she said.
“They found out, some of them, on Christmas Eve,” she said. “One, a Marine who had been raped and murdered. Her family has no closure. … These were people who were commuted off death row by the Biden administration.”
Bondi will hold another press conference on Wednesday afternoon with FBI Director Kash Patel about Operation Restore Justice, a coordinated operation across 55 FBI field offices to “identify, track, and arrest child sex predators.”
“That’s a vital report,” she said. “It’s a huge case that we’ve been working on, the FBI, all of my prosecutors.”
