The Senate Judges Committee voted on Wednesday to favor the appointment of Pam Bondi for the American attorney general to the Senate, a generally expected mood that will release it in the entire room later this week.
She insured the votes of the 12 Republicans of the Commission, with all 10 Democrats voting against.
Bondi, the former Attorney General of Florida, made one Name for itself in Florida By refraining from drug trafficking, violent crime and the many “pill factories” that are active in the state. She also spent 18 years as an public prosecutor for the Hillsborough County State Attorney office, and gave her the experience that many believe she should serve as the best American lawyer.
Bondi was expected to see a slide to confirmation prior to Wednesday’s vote. Her nomination to become president Donald Trump ‘S prosecutor also earned the praise of more than 110 former officials from the Ministry of Justice, including former Attorney General, and dozens of Democratic and Republican government lawyers -General, who praised her experience and work in Party and state lines.
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Pam Bondi, former Attorney General of Florida, who speaks during a hearing of the Senate judge in a US Capitol. (Photo by Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA)
Those backers described Bondi in interviews and letters that were only viewed for FOX News Digital as an experienced and motivated public prosecutor whose record has proved more consensus-builder than Bridge burner.
In its confirmation hearing, earlier this month, Bondi emphasized that if confirmed to lead Doj, the “bias, the armament has disappeared.” America will have one level of justice for everyone. “
However, it is still to be seen whether the approach will appear successful.
The confirmation mood on Wednesday was held against a strikingly different political background than just two weeks ago, when Bondi testified before Trump’s termination.
In his first nine days in office, Trump has fired more than 15 inspectors general from the best federal agencies, more than a dozen special council members who were responsible for investigating him and have re -assigned or removed officials of top posts in the department in the department .
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Pam Bondi, the choice of President-Elect Donald Trump to Leiden’s Ministry of Justice in Leiden, is sworn in for the Senate Cycling Committee for her confirmation, in the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, January 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
He also froze new recruitment at DOJ, gave a radical claim for more than 1500 criminal defendants charged in the 6 January 2021, riots in Capitol, USA and installed as an acting American lawyer for the District of Columbia, a criminal lawyer Lawyer high -ray rioters.
Combined, Democrats have expressed serious concern about these actions and about Bondi’s ability to steer the Ministry of Justice in the light of a deliberate and sometimes apparently impulsive President-Elect, and asked her willingness to go after political “enemies” And she asked to give faith to certain comments from Kash Patel, Trump’s FBI nominated.
But Bondi seemed composed and largely inexplicable during her confirmation hearing, which stretched for more than five hours, except a lunch break of 30 minutes.
She emphasized her record about fighting violent crime, drug trafficking and human trafficking as the best public prosecutor of Florida and outlined her broader vision to lead the Ministry of Justice, where she emphasized her wish to release a department from political influence.
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Logo of the Ministry of Justice and Pam Bondi (Samuel Corm/Bloomberg via Getty images, left, and Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty images, right.)
If confirmed, the former colleagues of Bondi have Fox News Digital told They expect that she will bring the same playbook to Washington in Florida – this time with a view to breaking down drug trafficking, illegal fentanyl use and the cartels responsible for smuggling drugs across the border.
Democrat Dave Aronberg, who challenged Bondi in her bid at the Attorney General of Florida, told Fox News Digital in an interview he was astonished when Bondi called him after winning the race and asked him To be her drugs tsar.
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He noted that she has previously sent political challenges. When she took office in Florida, Aaronberg said, Bondi received “a lot of pushback” from members of the Republican Party for certain actions she undertook, “including naming a democrat in a top office.
“But she came across them and she did what she thought was good, regardless of political pressure,” Aaronberg told Fox News Digital on the eve of her confirmation voice. “So that is what gives me hope is that she has the Ministry of Justice editor and can re -focus on policy and politics. You know, I hope she will concentrate and I know that the border and the and human trafficking and the The rise of anti -Semitism in our country and at university campuses will not be popular positions. “
