The Senate on Tuesday night confirmed Pam Bondi as President Donald Trump’s attorney general.
The vote was 54-46, with only one Democrat, Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, supporting Bondi, a former Florida attorney general who became Trump’s pick when former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., turned down the nomination and resigned from Congress.
“Pam Bondi is just the kind of person to come in to restore integrity and to make sure that our Department of Justice is fighting on behalf of the American people and not an attempt ironically to undermine the Republic in the very accusations lobbed at Joe Biden’s political opponent,” Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., said on the Senate floor before the vote. “I look forward to voting yes for Pam Bondi and having a real leader, somebody that we will be able to look up to in that very important Department of Justice.”
Trump will task Bondi to reshape the Department of Justice, which was highly politicized under her predecessor, Merrick Garland. Former President Joe Biden’s DOJ launched political prosecutions of Trump, jailed nearly 2,000 people connected to the events of Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol and also targeted Catholics as potential domestic terrorists, and jailed peaceful anti-abortion protestors.
The Senate on Monday voted 52-46 along party lines to end debate and send Bondi’s nomination to the floor for a full vote. Sens. John Fetterman, D-Pa., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., did not vote Monday.
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