The Senate on Monday voted 52-46 in a party-line vote Monday to advance the nomination of Pam Bondi to be the Department of Justice’s subsequent Legal professional Basic.
Ms. Bondi is now on a glide path to be confirmed by the total Senate at a ultimate vote.
Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican, got here to the ground earlier than lawmakers forged their votes and referred to as the previous Florida lawyer normal a “certified nominee.” He stated Democrats are “intent on opposing” her, and President Trump’s different nominees, “purely for partisan causes.”
“Ms. Bondi’s prepared and in a position to serve our nation and he or she’ll work with President Trump to revive religion within the Justice Department,” Mr. Grassley stated.
The highest Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat, stated Democrats needs to be cautious of supporting Ms. Bondi’s nomination as a result of she helped help Mr. Trump’s efforts to problem the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election.
“President Trump has repeatedly made it clear that he values loyalty above all else in the case of attorneys normal,” he stated.
“Don’t take my phrase for it,” Mr. Durbin stated. “Have a look at what occurred in his first time period. He fired his first lawyer normal for not being loyal. President Trump stated that he expects the Justice Department to hunt retribution on his behalf.”
He added, “With Ms. Bondi, the Trump administration has lastly discovered somebody who handed the loyalty take a look at.”
The important thing vote occurred within the wake of the Justice Department firing dozens of prosecutors who labored on legal circumstances associated to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, and the terminations of high FBI executives.
