On Tuesday, former Attorney General of Florida Pam Bondi was confirmed as the next head of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), in a mostly party-line vote in the Senate.
As Fox News reports, Bondi was confirmed with 54 senators voting in favor, while 46 voted against her. She received the support of all 53 Senate Republicans, plus a single Democrat defection in Senator John Fetterman (D-Penn.).
As the next Attorney General of the United States, Bondi will be taking over during a period of intense scrutiny of federal law enforcement, after widespread and credible accusations of the DOJ and the FBI being weaponized against conservative Americans during the four years of Joe Biden’s presidency.
The FBI has been further criticized after it was revealed that nearly 5,000 agents—roughly one-third of the entire agency—were assigned exclusively to cases regarding the peaceful protest at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. On his first day back in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order pardoning all 1,600 J6 defendants. He also ordered the removal of 15 federal inspectors general and special counsel investigators.
During her confirmation hearings, Bondi confirmed that she would fulfill her duty as a law enforcement officer and not target political opponents, telling the Senate Judiciary Committee that “politics has to be taken out of this system.”
Bondi was the second person nominated by President Trump to serve as attorney general, after former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz; Gaetz quickly withdrew himself from consideration over concerns that not enough Republicans would support his nomination due to his hard-right stances.
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