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The Senate voted on Tuesday afternoon to confirm Pam Bondi, President Donald Trump’s candidate for the Attorney General, voting 54-46 to install the prosecutor for a long time and former Florida Attorney General to run the Department of Justice. of the United States.
Senator John Fetterman, D-P., Held a party to make the bipartisan vote. It was the only Democrat to unite Republicans in support of the candidate.
Bondi confirmation comes to both Department of Justice and FBI They have been under scrutiny by the Democrats of Congress who have raised their concern about Trump’s recent decision to forgive or commute the sentences of 1,600 accused on January 6, 2021, Capitol riots and to highlight more than 15 general inspectors and researchers of Special Directors.
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To date, there is no known plans for removal or punitive actions against the agents involved in the research of January 6.
But the United States Attached Attorney General Emil Bove resulted in new concerns last week after he led the acting director of the FBI to identify all current and old employees of the office assigned to the January 6 cases for the Internal review.
PAM BONDI, the option of President Donald Trump to lead the Department of Justice as the Attorney General, is presented to the Senate Judicial Committee for his confirmation audience on January 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
The effort pushed the FBI officers to submit two separate demands on Tuesday seeking Emergency emergency meeting In the Federal Court, arguing in the demands that any DOJ or FBI effort to review or discriminate the agents involved in the January 6 probe would be “illegal and retaliation” and a violation of the protections of the Civil Service.
Bondi has repeatedly said that he would not use his position to move on to any political agenda, an abstaining that returned many times during his confirmation audience during the hours.
“Politics must be taken out of this system,” Bondi told the Senate Judicial Committee last month.
Trump Ag candidate Pam Bondi is moving forward to Senate’s final vote
Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a press conference while a getaway from the extreme money of former President Donald Trump, outside the Manhattan Criminal Court, on May 21, 2024, In New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
Bondi’s nomination obtained praise from both the Republicans and the Democrats of the Chamber for their composition and their ability to navigate thorny and politically complicated themes and questions of questions of some detractors.
He was widely expected to slip into confirmation after sight, and his candidacy had obtained the praise of more than 110 former officers in the Department of Justice, including the former General Advocades and dozens of. Democratic and Republican State General Lawyersthat praised his experience and working through the lines of party and state.
These sponsors described Bondi in interviews and letters exclusively by Fox News Digital as an experienced and motivated prosecutor, whose record has proven more as a consensus builder than a bridge burner.
“It is too rare that senior officials in the Department of Justice, much less general lawyers, have a great experience in the daily work of keeping our communities safe.” The former Justice Department officials wrote In a letter urging their confirmation.
The old colleagues of Bondi in Florida also told Fox News Digital that they were waiting for the same game book he used in Florida in Washington, this time, with his eye in the fall of drug trafficking, the Illegal use of Fentanyl and the cartels responsible for the smuggling drugs of the border. .
Democrat Dave Aronberg, who challenged Bondi in his candidacy for the Florida Attorney General, told Fox News Digital in an interview that was stunned when Bondi called him after winning the race and asked him be your drug tsar.
The former Florida Attorney General, Pam Bondi, speaks during the annual meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 23, 2024 in National Harbour, MD. .
He also praised Bondi for looking at political challenges before noting that when he took office in Florida, Bondi “received a great impetus” from members of the Republican Party “for certain actions, including appointing a Democrat on a higher charge .
“But he settled towards them and did what he thought was right, regardless of political pressure,” Aaronberg told Fox News Digital on the eve of his confirmation vote. “Therefore, this is what hopes to me here, is that the boat is turned on and the Department of Justice on politics and non -politics will focus again.”
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In the statements on the floor Monday evening, the President of the Senate Judicial Committee, Chuck Grassley, praised Bondi’s fiscal experience and his time as a public official, saying that he made history as the first Female General Attorney A Florida.
Bondi “fought against the pills, eliminated the recoil of rape test kits and was the law and order,” Grassley told the legislators shortly before the Senate Clotatua vote, noting that Bondi “was” Easily re -elected to a second term “as a State Attorney General” because he did such a great job. “
