Trump names Pam Bondi as new nominee for US attorney general

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's latest nominee for U.S. lawyer wide has established herself arsenic a staunch conservative, Trump loyalist and outspoken defender of the president-elect, some personally and professionally.

Trump announced his enactment of erstwhile Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi connected Thursday, conscionable hours aft erstwhile Florida U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz withdrew his sanction from information for the post.

From his Truth Social media account, Trump praised Bondi and what she volition bring to the office.

"For excessively long, the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against maine and different Republicans — Not anymore," Trump wrote. "Pam volition refocus the DOJ to its intended intent of warring transgression and making America harmless again."

The 59-year-old Bondi was 1 of the lawyers connected Trump's defence squad during his archetypal impeachment trial, and she played a starring relation successful his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Raised, educated successful Florida

Bondi was calved and raised successful Florida, received a Bachelor of Arts grade from the University of Florida, and a instrumentality grade from the Stetson University College of Law successful DeLand, Florida.

Early successful her instrumentality career, Bondi worked arsenic authoritative and spokeswoman successful Hillsborough County, wherever she was adjunct state's attorney. In 2010, she became the archetypal pistillate lawyer wide elected to the authorities of Florida.

In that role, "she pioneered impactful anti-trafficking initiatives, hosted groundbreaking conferences to combat intersexual exploitation, and championed innovative solutions that different states person since followed," said the non-profit National Center connected Sexual Exploitation, which welcomed her assignment successful a connection Friday.

While successful office, Bondi defended a 2008 amendment to the authorities constitution that would prohibition aforesaid enactment marriages. In 2018, she joined different Republican authorities lawyer generals successful an unsuccessful suit attempting to overturn the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, much commonly known arsenic Obamacare.

Bondi received wide disapproval successful 2013 when, pursuing a $25,000 donation to a governmental enactment committee supporting her re-election run from the Donald J. Trump Foundation, she chose not to articulation a suit initiated by the lawyer wide of New York against Trump University for "persistent fraudulent, amerciable and deceptive conduct."

Prior to the donation, Bondi had said she was considering joining the lawsuit, arsenic her bureau had received astatine slightest 22 complaints astir Trump University.

She endorsed Trump successful the Florida superior during the 2016 statesmanlike campaign.

Organization founded to beforehand Trump's agenda

Bondi serves arsenic seat for the Center for Litigation and co-chair of the Center for Law and Justice astatine the America First Policy Institute, a blimpish enactment that was founded successful 2021 to beforehand Trump's agenda.

Bondi is besides a spouse astatine the Washington-based Ballard Partners lobbying firm, wherever she chairs the firm's Corporate Regulatory Compliance practice.

Some accusation for this study was provided by The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse.