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US_ Pam Bondi Clears Major Hurdle on Path to Becoming Attorney General—Senate Showdown Looms

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Pam Bondi Clears Major Hurdle on Path to Becoming Attorney General—Senate Showdown Looms

By Teri Christoph | 1:28 PM on January 29, 2025

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It looks like progress is being made in getting more of President Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees through the confirmation process and into their roles of helping the president to overhaul the federal government.

So far, only six of Trump's fifteen Cabinet-level nominees have been confirmed:


* Secretary of State: Marco Rubio
* Secretary of Defense: Pete Hegseth
* Secretary of Homeland Security: Kristi Noem
* Director of the Central Intelligence Agency: John Ratcliffe
* Secretary of the Treasury: Scott Bessent
* Secretary of Transportation: Sean Duffy


WATCH LIVE: RFK Jr. Confirmation Hearing Before Senate Finance Committee

Trump's pick for Attorney General, Pam Bondi, made it one step closer to assuming command of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) after her nomination was approved Wednesday by the Senate Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote of 14-10. Bondi's nomination now goes for a vote by the full Senate, which is expected to take place in the coming weeks.

During her two-day confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Bondi, who is the former attorney general of Florida, faced heated questioning from the panel's Democrat members over such things as birthright citizenship, abortion, the 2020 election, and whether or not she would be able to be independent in her role as the nation's top prosecutor. Democrats like Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), after watching the Biden DOJ be weaponized repeatedly against the administration's political adversaries, were very
concerned that the Trump DOJ would be weaponized with Bondi at the helm.

Bondi wasn't bothered.


"Every case will be prosecuted based on the facts and the law that is applied in good faith — period. Politics have got to be taken out of the system," she said.

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READ MORE: https://redstate.com/terichristoph/2025/01/29/new-pam-bondi-is-one-step-closer-to-becoming-attorney-general-n2184947

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