U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Department of Justice have been openly violating a federal law for two and a half months to shield President Donald Trump from transparency in the metastasizing "Epstein files" scandal.

And now Bondi will get a second chance at explaining herself in Congress. But based on her last performance before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee in February, expect only more pathetic theatrics and zero acceptance of accountability.

Still, something has shifted since Bondi rolled into that Feb. 11 House hearing with pre-printed, dimwitted insults for the Democrats who wanted to know why so many documents from the Epstein files – especially ones naming Trump – have been withheld from public release or deleted from the DOJ's website soon after being released.

Republicans largely backed Bondi after her last hearing, even after the attorney general inadvertently revealed that her department was secretly tracking what members of Congress searched for when given private access to unredacted Epstein files.

Now, five Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee joined all of the Democrats on March 4 to vote 24-19 to subpoena Bondi to explain why she has been "instrumental in orchestrating the White House's cover-up of the Epstein files."

U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, a Republican from South Carolina who has pushed for the release of the Epstein Files, said in a social media post the committee wants "to know why the DOJ is more focused on shielding the powerful than delivering........

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