Senate confirms PAM BONDI as a lawyer

The Senate confirmed Pam Bondi as a lawyer on Tuesday night, a quick ascent to become the country’s supreme law enforcement at a time when President Trump has already begun to reshape the Ministry of Justice, which he has bitterly condemned.

Ms. Bondi, 59, spent years as a prosecutor in Florida, and eventually got up to become its lawyer. Recently, she has been a high -profile surrogate for Mr. Trump, who cast doubt on the results of the 2020 election, criticized prosecutors in other jurisdictions who accused him of crimes and defended him at his first impeachment whether he had incorrectly withheld military assistance to Ukraine.

She takes the reins of the Ministry of Justice as the president has thrown vague allegations of criminal wrongdoing against his political rivals, and Democrats out of power warn that the lawyer may enable abuse of power.

The Ministry of Justice has already begun to make sweeping staff changes in careers – grants or rejects scores of prosecutors, including those involved in the investigations of Mr. Trump.

Hours before the vote, the FBI officials turned a long list of information about agents who had worked on January 6, 2021, Riot Investigation – a list that has provoked fears that it could be used to punish or shoot hundreds of agents. Some agents filed a trial on Tuesday that tried to prevent the Ministry of Justice from publishing the names of the agents.

On the Senate floor, Adam B. Schiff, Democrat in California, said Mr. Trump’s promised “Campaign for retaliation happens.”

“Top FBI agents have been fired,” he continued. “Would she have defended these FBI agents at risk of her own job, as a senior FBI leader has done? Of course not, and let’s not pretend anything else. “

The country “can’t afford,” Mr. Schiff, a legal lawyer who believes their role is to defend Mr. Trump rather than the American people.

Senator Eric Schmitt, Republican from Missouri, called Ms. Bondi “Extremely qualified for this job,” and the right person to take over “a Ministry of Justice that has come astray.”

In his first period Mr. Trump troubled relationship with his two lawyers – both of whom he forced out of their jobs after they were dissatisfied by not meeting his demands from the Ministry of Justice.

By Ms. Bondi’s confirmation hearing urged Republicans to drastically review the department and punish all employees who exhibited what they said were bias against conservatives. Democrats, in turn, questioned whether she would bow to Mr. Trump’s declared desire to seek revenge.

Ms. Bondi refused to say explicitly how she would deal with such pressure from Mr. Trump, but insisted that “politics will not play a role” in her investigative or prosecuting authority.

She criticized how the department had been run under the Biden administration and said the department “has become weapons this year and year and it should stop.”

She also refused to settle back from her previous promise in a TV interview that “the charges will be prosecuted, the bad.” Pressure on this statement replied Ms. Bondi that “none of us is over the law.”

In 2010, Ms. Bondi out of a crowded Republican primary to win Florida Attorney General’s Race. During his eight years in the job, Ms. Bondi a national figure in the fight against opioid addiction. Since her nomination, she has focused on that part of her resume and her prosecution of violent criminals as her main information for the job.