Pam Bondi confirmed as Trump's attorney general ushering in a new era at DOJ

The Senate has voted to corroborate Pam Bondi arsenic the adjacent lawyer general. 

Her confirmation passed the Republican-led enclosure with a bipartisan ballot 54 - 46. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) was the lone Democrat to ballot successful her favor.

The erstwhile two-time lawyer wide of Florida will present pb the Department of Justice which oversees a whopping 115,000 employees. 

The DOJ is successful complaint of captious departments similar the FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). 

Bondi volition beryllium stepping into the relation astatine a tumultuous clip for the FBI aft reports surfaced indicating up to 5,000 employees who worked connected January 6 cases could beryllium fired. 

Bondi, 59, battled with Democrats implicit her ties to Donald Trump during her confirmation proceeding successful January wherever she repeatedly batted down questions astir the 2020 election results.

Many Democrats questioned whether she would beryllium capable to enactment with independency successful the role. 

'We request an Attorney General who knows their work is to the radical – not the President. That idiosyncratic is not Pam Bondi,' Sen. Adam Schiff posted connected X earlier the confirmation vote.

Though astir lawmakers did not reason astir her bona fides for the role. 

'She spent astir 30 years arsenic a transgression authoritative and past arsenic a authorities lawyer general. She has much proceedings acquisition than immoderate modern U.S. Attorney General,' Republican Whip John Barrasso said connected the Senate level Tuesday. 

'Attorney General Bondi is the astir experienced vocation transgression authoritative ever to beryllium America's main instrumentality enforcement officer. She is acceptable to pb connected Day One.'

Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley posted connected X: 'Pam Bondi’s confirmation is simply a triumph for the regularisation of instrumentality and a committedness that safer days are ahead. Ms. Bondi is simply a vocation authoritative who’s dedicated her nonrecreational vocation to pursuing justice.' 

'Under Ms. Bondi’s leadership, I look guardant to seeing enhanced accountability astatine the DOJ and improved responsiveness to Congress and the American people,' helium continued. 

Bondi has promised to realign the Department of Justice with its halfway missions, extremity weaponization of the ineligible system, prioritize instrumentality enforcement and assistance code the 'overwhelming situation astatine the border.' 

Having antecedently helped the president with ineligible enactment during his archetypal impeachment trial, Bondi is seen wide arsenic a Trump loyalist. 

'If confirmed, I volition enactment to reconstruct assurance and integrity to the Department of Justice – and each of its components,' Bondi said astatine her confirmation proceeding successful mid-January. 

'Under my watch, the partisan weaponization of the Department of Justice volition end. America indispensable person 1 tier of justness for all.'

'Politics volition not play a part' successful deciding who gets investigated, she confirmed.  

Throughout the proceeding galore of the Democrats' questions were meant to trial however Bondi would enactment independently from Trump should she instrumentality office. 

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) asking whether Donald Trump could tally again successful 2028 admitted the Republican would not. 

'No, senator, not unless they alteration the Constitution,' Bondi said, intelligibly alert that the 22nd Amendment restricts presidents from serving much than 2 terms. 

Bondi besides shared her imaginativeness for the role, including her apical priority, which she says is being the reestablishment of a 1 tiered justness system.

'If confirmed arsenic the adjacent lawyer wide of the United States, my overriding nonsubjective volition beryllium to instrumentality the Department of Justice to its halfway ngo of keeping Americans harmless and vigorously prosecuting criminals and that includes getting backmost to basics gangs, drugs, violent cartels, our border, and our overseas adversaries,' she said during her opening remarks.

'Under my watch, the partisan weaponization of the Department of Justice volition end,' she continued. 'America indispensable person 1 tier of justness for all.'

Originally Trump nominated erstwhile Rep. Matt Gaetz arsenic lawyer general, though his enactment was dogged with scandals regarding his past. 

During the process it came to airy done a House Ethics Committee study that Gaetz had gotten sexually progressive with a insignificant erstwhile helium was a congressman. The revelation efficaciously tanked his chances.