Welcome to the beat. I'm Melissa Murray in for Ari Melburgh, and we start tonight with a major shakeup at the Department of Justice.

President Trump has fired Attorney General Pamela Joe Bondi after just a 14-month tenure leading the DOJ.

Bondi is now the second member of Trump's cabinet to be forced out in the second term.

Bondi reportedly ended up in the president's crosshairs for a couple of reasons,

principally her handling of the DOJ's Epstein files. We'll have more on that later. Also an issue

was her failure to successfully prosecute the president's political foes.

Let's take a look at how some of that played out.

Trump putting extraordinary pressure on his attorney general, Pam Bondi,

publicly calling on her to use the power of the Justice Department to prosecute his political enemies.

Notable cases include two failed attempts to indict

New York Attorney General Letitia James. Today's ruling means, at least for now, both cases will be

dismissed. The federal charges have been dropped against Mayor Razbaraka following his arrest

outside an ICE facility. Bondi is the one who installed Lindsay Halligan as the interim

U.S. attorney.

That has been invalidated.

Both Halligan and Bondi should be disbarred.

Those are just some of the many cases that the DOJ has tried without success to pursue.

Here are some more.

Judges have pushed back in each case, saying that the challenges

themselves lack legal merit. And with any government shakeup, it seems that breaking up is hard to do.

Bondi reportedly did not want to leave her post at DOJ. The New York Times reports that she

spent much of yesterday making her case to stay

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