Overview
- Attorney General Pam Bondi terminated Elizabeth Baxter, a paralegal in the Environment and Natural Resources Division, effective immediately for “inappropriate conduct towards National Guard service members,” according to her memo.
- Justice Department officials confirmed the firing, with spokespersons posting on X that those who do not support law enforcement may not fit at the department.
- Reports and DOJ security footage described multiple August incidents in which Baxter raised a middle finger and used expletives toward Guard members and recounted the behavior to a DOJ security officer.
- The action follows Bondi’s earlier dismissal of paralegal Sean Dunn, who was accused of throwing a sandwich at a federal officer and now faces a misdemeanor after a grand jury declined a felony indictment.
- The incident unfolded during a federal surge that placed National Guard troops and agents across Washington, a deployment that the administration credits with crime reductions and critics question on authority grounds.