Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is up for her confirmation hearing on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Bondi will be entrusted with a massive amount of power if confirmed as attorney general, and will be set to serve a president who campaigned in large part on using the DOJ to go after his political enemies. She’ll be leading a DOJ that itself spent the last several years investigating and prosecuting the January 6 rioters, and which dropped two federal indictments of Trump after he won the November 2024 election. Trump spent nearly his entire first term trying to treat the DOJ as a law firm that was representing him, and which also had the power to bring criminal cases; Bondi represented Trump during the first impeachment while she was in private practice.
It’s a bizarre situation that all but guarantees a basically irreconcilable conflict of interest from the start. We can expect Democrats to focus on whether Bondi will provide any resistance to Trump’s plans to weaponize the DOJ; Republicans have so far signaled that they will provide cover for Bondi.
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The hearing is set to begin at 9:30 AM ET. Watch here.
Read Bondi’s questionnaire answers here.
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Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is up for her confirmation hearing on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Bondi will be entrusted with a massive amount of power if confirmed as attorney general, and will be set to serve a president who campaigned in large part on using the DOJ to go after his political enemies. She’ll be leading a DOJ that itself spent the last several years investigating and prosecuting the January 6 rioters, and which dropped two federal indictments of Trump after he won the November 2024 election. Trump spent nearly his entire first term trying to treat the DOJ as a law firm that was representing him, and which also had the power to bring criminal cases; Bondi represented Trump during the first impeachment while she was in private practice.
It’s a bizarre situation that all but guarantees a basically irreconcilable conflict of interest from the start. We can expect Democrats to focus on whether Bondi will provide any resistance to Trump’s plans to weaponize the DOJ; Republicans have so far signaled that they will provide cover for Bondi.
Follow along with us below.
