WASHINGTON – The US Senate confirmed Florida prosecutor Pam Bondy as U.S. Attorney General under President Donald Trump.
Senators voted 54-46 Trump has on his crosshairs after federal prosecutors targeted his actions after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election to set up the former Florida Attorney General at the top of the U.S. Department of Justice .
Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman voted in favor of confirming Bondi.
Bondi easily gained support from a Republican-led Senate committee on justice, which put her on the glimpse of confirmation. The panel was split along the party line on Wednesday Progress She’s on a full floor vote.
Bondi was sworn in an oval office Wednesday morning by Supreme Court Judge Clarence Thomas. According to Pool’s reports, Trump congratulated Bondi by calling her “incredibly fair and incredibly good.”
Grassley’s support
“I’m disappointed that my Democrat colleague on the Judiciary Committee didn’t vote for Mr Bondy. I hope the whole Senate takes a different approach.” I said On the floor on Monday.
“If my colleagues don’t cross the aisle for this qualified candidate, they’ll show that they’re willing to oppose President Trump’s pick on purely partisan reasons,” Grassley said. Ta.
Senate majority leader John Toon said Tuesday that Americans have “lost their faith” at the Justice Department.
“Pam Bondy has pledged to return the department to its central mission: to prosecute crimes and protect Americans from threats to their safety and freedom,” said South Dakota Republican. I said On Tuesday afternoon, he condemned the Department of Political Bias under former President Joe Biden.
“Real Concerns” from the White House
Democrats spoke to Bondi ahead of the confirmation vote, highlighting Bondi’s indirect response to members of the Democratic committee. question Who won the 2020 election?
Sen. Sheldon White House, a Rhode Island Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said on Tuesday that Bondy’s response during her confirmation hearing was the cause of “real concern.”
“She said a lot of right things about divisional independence and the rule of law. What I couldn’t get over was how things changed when I reached a topic that was sensitive to Donald Trump. That was about Taka.
“Did she not say anything obvious, like, ‘Did President Biden win the 2020 election?’ “That’s a simple answer. Super simple. When she can’t say that, that’s a sign,” the White House continued.
The former president faced charges for hoarding plans to overturn the 2020 election results and documents classified as Florida real estate. The Justice Department cited a long-term policy of halting the lawsuit after Trump won the election and not prosecutes the sitting president.
Trump’s interim US lawyer in Florida’s southern district last week Dropped The classified documents are cases of two Trump co-defendants.
I have Trump Dismissal Not only he, but the rounds of Justice Department officials involved in his prosecution I was involved In the prosecution of those charged after the violent attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
On his first night of office, Trump granted leniency to all of the nearly 1,600 defendants charged with the attack.
Last updated at 10:39am, February 5, 2025
