Washington – The Senate confirmed on Tuesday to PAM Bondi as attorney general, installing a key ally of President Trump to take the helm of the Department of Justice.
Bondi’s Nomination for the Attorney General It was approved by the upper chamber 54 to 46, with a Democrat, Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, joining all Republicans to vote to confirm it. She will assume the position of the main agents of the Law of the Nation, since Trump has pledged to end what he calls the weapon of the Department of Justice and threatened to attack his critics.
During his confirmation hearing before the Judicial Committee of the Senate earlier this month, Bondi said that “would not politicize” the department and said that “justice will be administered evenly throughout this country.”
“If confirmed, I will work to restore trust and integrity to the Department of Justice and each of its components,” he said. “Under my watch, partisanship, the weapon, it will have gone. America will have a level of justice for all.”
In the days since Trump began his second term, the Senate has been working to confirm his cabinet teams. The upper chamber led by the Republican Party installed he The main members his National Security Team First and now it is moving to approve the remaining nominees that will lead the federal departments.
The Bondi nomination was first approved by the Senate Judicial Committee in a vote of the 12-10 party line before the upper chamber considered it.
As attorney general, Bondi will supervise an expanding department that includes numerous police components, including the FBI and the alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives office. Both agencies have often been subject to attacks by Mr. Trump. The President selected another staunch defenderKash Patel, to lead the FBI.
Bondi will also have the power to investigate federal probes involving Mr. Trump who were supervised by former special lawyer Jack Smith. Blacksmith He resigned from the role before the president returned to office and two cases presented against Mr. Trump were dismissed Due to the policy of the Long Data Department of Justice that prevents the prosecution of a acting president.
Now, with Trump back in the White House, his administration has supervised the dismissal of certain employees of the Department of Justice. Interim Attorney General James Mchenry, selected by the president to temporarily direct the department, shot approximately a dozen Employees of the Department of Justice who worked for Smith because “he did not believe that these officials could be reliable to faithfully implement the president’s agenda due to his important role in the president’s prosecution,” said an official of the Department of Justice.
And department leadership directed the interim US prosecutor in Washington, DC, Edward Martin, End the prosecutors who investigated The assault of January 6, 2021 to the United States Capitol, according to a January 31 memorandum reviewed by CBS News.
In the FBI, which is a component of the Department of Justice, the Interim Deputy Attorney General ordered the interim chief of the office to compile a list of all current and previous FBI employees that were assigned to the investigation of the January 6 attack for January 6 Its review to “determine if additional personnel actions are needed,” according to a memorandum reviewed by CBS News.
FBI supervisors also have Received questionnaires For certain agents in their field offices that contain questions about their possible work in the cases of January 6, as if they participated in a search, if they made any arrest or testified in court.
Bondi has previously suggested that the prosecutors of the Department of Justice who were involved in cases against Mr. Trump would face his own investigation and have repeated the president’s statement that there is a so -called profound state of the employees of the career government who work for undermine it.
“The Department of Justice, the prosecutors will be prosecuted, the bad ones. The investigators will be investigated because the last state of the deep state for President Trump, hid in the shadows. But now they have a focus of attention,” he told them, ” He said to them, “Fox News said after he was accused in 2023.
Bondi takes the helm of the Department of Justice without the federal prosecution experience that their predecessors have had. She served two mandates as the Florida Attorney General, during which her office directed demands by challenging the Health Care Law at low price and the immigration policies of former President Barack Obama.
After leaving office in 2019, she worked as a lawyer and lobbyist for Ballard Partners, a Florida headquarters. During his term there, he represented Corporations, including General Motors, Amazon and Uber, and pressed in the name of the Qatar government, in accordance with the registration forms presented to the Federal Government.
Bondi briefly left his post at Ballard Partners to serve As a member of Mr. Trump’s defense team during the first set of political trial procedures carried out by the Democrats of Congress in their first mandate. She defended the call of July 2019 of Mr. Trump with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, in which she pressed Zelenskyy to investigate former President Biden.
Trump was accused by the Chamber led by the Democrats, becoming the third president of the United States to be accused and acquitted by the Senate led by Republicans after a trial, where Bondi was part of Mr. Trump’s team.
He also headed legal efforts after the 2020 elections to challenge the results in Pennsylvania and falsely said that Mr. Trump won the state of the battlefield. Bondi He said to the Judicial Committee of the Senate During her confirmation audience, she accepts the results of the elections.
Trump selected Bondi for the attorney general after his first election, former representative Matt Gaetz from Florida, He withdrew his name of consideration. Gaetz had been under investigation For the Chamber Ethics Committee for alleged inappropriate sexual behavior and the use of illicit drugs, and denied any irregularity.
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