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D.C. Scorecard: Trump administration is ‘cleaning house’

By , Daily Memphian Published: February 16, 2025 4:00 AM CT

U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn is cheering on the Trump administration’s effort to fire or force out U.S. Justice Department prosecutors at a critical moment that has been met by resistance within the DOJ.

Blackburn in a post on X commended U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi for “cleaning house at the DOJ.”

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D.C. Scorecard Marsha Blackburn Bill Hagerty Steve Cohen David Kustoff Subscriber Only

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Bill Dries

Bill Dries

Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.


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