The US Senate confirms Trump -nominated Pam Bondi as a lawyer | Trump -Administration

The Republican-led Senate confirmed Pam Bondi as the new US law lawyer on Tuesday and emerged one of Donald Trump’s strongest political allies to the top perch of US law enforcement.

Voting of 54-46 to confirm the former State Attorney in Florida will help strengthen his control over the US Department of Justice, which has recently seen sweeping cuts aimed at prosecutors and FBI agents investigating January 6, 2021- The attack on the capitol of the president’s supporters.

Democratic Senator John Fetterman joined all 53 Republicans in voting for Bondi.

Bondi, 59, promised to maintain the department’s independence during a confirmation hearing last month and said legislators that she will not inject policy into criminals or civilian investigations.

But legislators continue to have concern as to whether she will withstand potentially incorrect or illegal orders from Trump, following the layoffs of dozens of prosecutors pursuing criminal cases against him.

After participating in office on January 20, Trump signed an executive order that jumped what he called the “weaponization” of federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies and ordered the legal lawyer to “review the activities of all departments and agencies exercising civil or criminal enforcement authority. ”

Bondi, who spent decades as a prosecutor, represented Trump during his first trial. She has also repeated some of his false allegations of electoral fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

The incoming court lawyer has a share in Trump’s media company, Trump Media and Technology Group, according to financial information she filed with the Office of Government Ethics.

Bondi was Trump’s second election for the top US law enforcement job. His first election, former American congressman Matt Gaetz, withdrew from Congress and withdrew his name from consideration just before a representative’s house of representative ethics found that he had paid women for sex and drugs and hindered the congress.

Gaetz so far is the only nominated Trump cabinet to end his bid in the office. Senate Committee on Tuesday, the nominations of two of Trump’s most controversial nominees, Robert F Kennedy Jr. put forward to being the country’s top health worker and Tulsi Gabbard to act as his top spy.