Pam Bondi Wins Senate Confirmation to Lead Trump’s Justice Department

President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney general, Pam Bondi, has won confirmation from the Senate to lead the Department of Justice.

The Senate voted late Tuesday to confirm Bondi as attorney general.

Senators voted 54-46 to install the longtime prosecutor and former Florida attorney general to head Trump’s DOJ.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) bucked his party to make the vote bipartisan.

Fetterman was the only Democrat to join Republicans in support of the nominee.

Bondi’s confirmation comes as both the Justice Department and FBI have been under scrutiny by Democrats in Congress.

Democrats are outraged over Trump’s recent decision to pardon or commute the sentences of 1,600 defendants in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol protests.

In addition, Trump has angered his critics on the Left by ousting more than 15 inspectors general and special counsel investigators.

So far, there are no known plans to conduct sweeping removals or take punitive action against the agents involved in the Jan. 6 investigations.

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However, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove sparked fresh concerns last week after he directed the acting FBI director to identify all current and former bureau employees assigned to the Jan. 6 cases for internal review.

The effort prompted FBI agents to file two separate lawsuits on Tuesday.

The lawsuits seek emergency injunctive relief in federal court.

The agents are arguing in the lawsuits that any effort by the DOJ or FBI to review those involved in the Jan. 6 probe would be both “unlawful and retaliatory” and a violation of civil service protections.

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Bondi has repeatedly said she will not use her position to advance any political agenda, however.

She returned to this refrain many times during her hours-long confirmation hearing.

“Politics has to be taken out of this system,” Bondi told the Senate Judiciary Committee last month.

Bondi’s nomination earned praise from both Republicans and some Democrats in the chamber.

Many noted Bondi’s composure and her ability to deftly navigate thorny and politically tricky topics and lines of questioning from some would-be detractors.

She was widely expected to glide to confirmation after the hearing.

Bondi’s nomination had earned the praise of more than 110 former senior Justice Department officials who praised her experience and work across party and state lines.

Those officials include former attorneys general and dozens of Democratic and Republican state attorneys general.

Backers described Bondi as an experienced and motivated prosecutor whose record has proven to be more of a consensus builder than a bridge-burner.

In a letter urging Bondi’s confirmation, former Justice Department officials wrote:

“It is all too rare for senior Justice Department officials — much less Attorneys General — to have such a wealth of experience in the day-to-day work of keeping our communities safe.”

Bondi’s former colleagues in Florida also said they expect her to bring the same playbook she used in the state to Washington D.C.

This time, Bondi will be focused on cracking down on drug trafficking, illicit fentanyl use, and cartels responsible for smuggling drugs across the border.

In floor remarks Monday evening, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) praised Bondi’s prosecutorial experience and her time as a public servant.

Grassley noted that she made history as the first female attorney general in Florida.

Bondi “fought against pill mills, eliminated the backlog of rape test kits, and stood for law and order,” Grassley told lawmakers shortly before the Senate cloture vote.

He continued by noting that Bondi “was easily re-elected to a second term” as state attorney general “because she did such a great job.”

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