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Senate members voted Tuesday night to confirm PAM Bondi, candidate for President Donald Trump, voting 54-46 to install the prosecutor and former Attorney General of Florida to direct the United States Department of Justice.
Bondi’s confirmation occurs and both the Department of Justice and FBI They have been under scrutiny for the Democrats in Congress, who have expressed concerns about Trump’s recent decision to forgive or commute the sentences of 1,600 criminal dependents in the disturbances of the Capitol of January 6, 2021 and to expel more than 15 inspectors generals and special advice researchers.
To date, there are no known plans to carry out radical movements or take punitive measures against the agents involved in the investigations of January 6.
But the United States Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, caused new concerns last week after he ordered the director of the interim FBI to identify all current and previous office employees assigned to the cases of January 6 for review internal
The FBI agents group tells Congress to take urgent measures to protect against politicization
Pam Bondi, the election of President Elected Donald Trump to direct the Department of Justice as Attorney General, appears before the Senate Judicial Committee for his confirmation hearing on January 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
The effort led FBI agents to file two separated demands on Tuesday in search of Relief by emergency court In a Federal Court, argue in the demands that any effort of the DOJ or the FBI to review or discriminate against the agents involved in the investigation of January 6 would be “illegal and retaliation” and a violation of the protections of the civil service.
Bondi has repeatedly said that he will not use his position to advance in any political agenda, a chorus that he returned many times during his hours of confirmation of hours.
“Policy must be taken from this system,” Bondi told the Senate Judicial Committee last month.
Trump Nominated Ag, Pam Bondi, advances to the final vote of the Senate
The former Attorney General of La Florida, Pam Bondi, speaks during a press conference while at a break of the money trial in silence of former President Donald Trump outside Manhattan’s criminal court on May 21, 2024 in the city of Nueva York (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
The nomination of Bondi obtained praise from both the Republicans and some Democrats in the Chamber for their composure and their ability to skillfully navigate themes and lines of questions and lines of questions of some possible detractors.
It was widely expected to see a road slide to confirmation after the hearing, and its nomination had obtained the praise of more than 110 former senior officials of the Department of Justice, including former general prosecutors, and dozens of Attorney General of the Democratic and Republican Statewho praised his experience and work in the lines of parties and state.
These sponsors described Bondi in interviews and letters previously predictive to Fox News Digital as an experienced and motivated prosecutor whose record has proven to be more consensus builder than the bridge burner.
“It is too rare for the senior officials of the Department of Justice, much less general prosecutors, to have a great experience in the daily work of maintaining our safe communities.” Former justice department officials wrote In a letter urging your confirmation.
The former colleagues in Bondi in Florida also told Fox News Digital that they hope he bring the same play book he used in Florida to Washington, this time, with the eye of taking energetic measures against drug trafficking, the illicit use of Fentanyl and posters responsible for smuggling drugs. The border.
Democrat Dave Aronberg, who challenged Bondi in his commitment to Florida’s attorney general, told Fox News Digital in an interview that was surprised when Bondi called him after winning the race and asked him be your drug.
The former Attorney General of Florida, PAM Bondi, speaks during the annual meeting of the Construvia Political Action Conference on February 23, 2024 in National Harbor, MD. .
He also praised Bondi for looking at the political challenges before pointing out that when he assumed the position in Florida, Bondi “received a lot of rejection” of the members of the Republican Party “for certain actions, including the appointment of a Democrat in a higher office.
“But he faced them, and did what he thought was correct, regardless of political pressure,” Aaronberg told Fox News Digital on the eve of his confirmation vote. “So, that is what gives me hope here, is that she will correct the ship and forward the Department of Justice in politics, not to politics.”
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In the comments of the floor on Monday night, the president of the Judicial Committee of the Senate, Chuck Grassley, praised the fiscal experience of Bondi and his time as a public servant, noting that he made history as the first attorney general in Florida.
Bondi “fought against the pills, eliminated the accumulation of rape test kits and defended the law and order,” Grassley told the legislators shortly before the vote of the Senate, noting that Bondi “was easily re -elected to a second mandate” As state attorney general “” she did a great job. “
