Senate’s poll on PAM BONDI as the US Lawyer could put Trump Ally on the Justice Department’s Helm

Washington (AP) – The Senate was on its way to a confirmation vote for PAM Bondi as an American court lawyer on Tuesday night, potentially set a long -lasting ally by Donald Trump at the helm of a justice ministry who has already been rattled by Firings of career employees seen as disloyal to the Republican president.

Bondi, A former Florida -General Attorney And business lobbyist is expected to oversee a radical transformation of the department that has been the target of Trump’s Ire over Criminal cases it brought against him. She would come in with the FBI that she would oversee, In unrest over the control of agents involved in investigations related to the president who have made it clear that his desire to seek revenge on his perceived opponents.

Republicans have praised Bondi as a highly qualified leader they claim will bring much needed change to a department they believe unfairly pursued Trump through investigations results in two charges.

But Bondi has been subjected to intense control over his close relationship with the president who during his period fired a fbi director who refused to lift loyalty to him and forced a court lawyer who repeated himself From the Ministry of Justice’s study of potential ties between Russia and his presidential campaign in 2016.

While Bondi has tried to reassure Democrats that politics would not play any role in her decision making, too she refused by her confirmation hearing last month to determine potential investigations of Trump’s opponents. And she has repeated Trump’s claims that the charges against him constituted political persecution and said that the Ministry of Justice “had become weapons this year and years, and that has to stop.”

Senator Peter Welch, D-Vt., Praised Bondi as “skilled and competent,” but said that his “serious concern is really about President Trump and what he clearly requires.”

“It is clearly a loyalty to him as opposed to a demand for straightforward, sincere counseling, including if the president asks that something be done as a prosecution of a political opponent,” Welch said.

Bondi’s confirmation reconciliation comes hours after the FBI agents defended the Ministry of Justice over the efforts of Develop a list of employees involved in the prosecution on January 6, which agents fear can be a precursor to mass shoots.

Working Deputy Deputy Attorney Emil Bove Last week, the acting FBI director ordered the name, titles and offices for all FBI employees who worked in the 6th of January -Case – as Trump has described as a “serious national injustice.” Bove, who defended Trump in his criminal cases before joining the administration, said that officials of the Ministry of Justice would conduct a “review process to determine if additional staff actions are needed.”

The Ministry of Justice’s officials have also recently forced senior FBI leaders, fired prosecutors on special adviser Jack Smith’s team who examined Trump And ended a group of charges in DCU’s Attorney’s Office, hired to help with the massive 6th of January -Investigation.

Bondi repeatedly emphasized by her confirmation hearing that she would not pursue any of political reasons, promising that the public, not the president, would be her client. But her response sometimes repeated Trump’s campaignoric about a politicized justice system.

“They targeted Donald Trump,” Bondi told lawmakers. “They went after him – actually started back in 2016, they targeted his campaign. They have launched countless studies against him. “She added,” If I’m a lawyer, I won’t politicize this office. “

Bondi has been a luminaire in Trump’s orbit for years and a regular defender of the elected president on news programs in the midst of his legal evil. In a 2023 FOX News performance, she suggested that “bad” courts prosecutors would be investigated during the Trump administration.

“Investigators will be examined,” she said.

Smith has said that politics did not play any role in his decisions, and the evidence his team assembled were sufficient for Trump to be sentenced during trial of charges of Planning to overthrow the results of the presidential election in 2020.

Smith dropped that case And a separate who charges Trump with illegal hamstring of classified documents on his Mar-A-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida, after Trump’s election gain in November, citing long-term Ministry of Justice policy, which prohibits criminal cases against a sitting president.