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PAM Bondi confirmed as attorney general

PAM Bondi confirmed as attorney general

Washington – The Senate confirmed to PAM Bondi as attorney general on Tuesday night, establishing a firm loyal to President Donald Trump to supervise a justice department that has denounced bitterly.

Bondi, 59, was confirmed by a 54-46 vote, with a Democrat, Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, joining the Republican majority.

A former prosecutor in Florida, Bondi has acted as a high profile substitute for Trump. She doubted the results of the 2020 elections, criticized prosecutors in other jurisdictions that accused Trump of crimes and defended him in his first political trial, about whether he had retained inappropriate military aid to Ukraine.

She takes the reins when the president has launched vague accusations of criminal irregularities before his political rivals, and the out of power warn that, as a attorney general, he can allow abuse of power.

Trump had made clear his intention to install an ally as the main officer of the Law of the Nation, promising to eliminate what he calls his “deep state” rivals. The promise has raised the possibility of seeking to finish a long -standing practice of the Department of Justice, criminal investigations that operate independently of the Blanca House address.

The department has begun to make radical changes in personnel in career ranges, reallocating or dismissing dozens of prosecutors, including those involved in Trump investigations.

Hours before the vote, FBI officials delivered a long list of information about agents who had worked on January 6, 2021, riot investigations, a list that has caused fears that it could be used to punish or shoot hundreds of agents. Some agents filed a lawsuit on Tuesday that sought to prevent the Department of Justice from publishing the names of the agents.

On the floor of the Senate in advance, Adam Schiff, D-Calif., Warned that the “compensation campaign” Trump had promised was underway for a long time.

“FBI’s main agents have been fired,” he continued. “Would you have defended these FBI agents at the risk of their own work, as a main leader of the FBI has done? Of course not, and we don’t intend otherwise. “

The country “cannot afford,” said Schiff, a general prosecutor who believes that his role is to defend Trump instead of the American people.

Senator Eric Schmitt, R-MO., Called Bondi “supremely qualified for this work”, and the right person to take care of “a justice department was lost.”

In his first term, Trump had problematic relations with his two general prosecutors, who forced him to get out of his work after they disliked him by not satisfying his demands.

Bondi was the president’s second option to direct the department. Trump’s first option, former representative Matt Gaetz, withdrew from consideration when legislators pressed for more details about a sexual scandal that involves a 17 -year -old girl.

At Bondi’s confirmation hearing, the Republicans urged her to drastically review the department and punish any employee who exhibited what they described as bias against conservatives. The Democrats, in turn, questioned if he would bow to Trump’s declared desire to seek revenge.

Bondi refused to explicitly say how Trump’s pressure would handle, but insisted that “politics will not play a role” in his research decisions or prosecutors.

At the hearing, which took place before Trump swore the position, Bondi also minimized the suggestion of the Democrats that the president would make all the convicted or accused of crimes related to the disturbances of January 6, 2021 in The Capitol.

“I am not going to speak for the president, but the president does not like people who abuse the police officers,” he said. Days later, Trump forgave or granted clemency to all the defendants in that melee fight: almost 1,600 people, including those who assaulted the police.

She echoed republican complaints, criticizing how the department had been executed during the Biden administration, saying that “it has been armed for years and years and years, and has to stop.”

Pressing for a past vote that “prosecutors will be prosecuted, the bad,” Bondi doubled, responding: “None of us is above the law.”

In 2010, Bondi left a republican primary crowd to win the career of the Attorney General of Florida. During his eight years at work, Bondi became a national figure in the battle against opioid addiction. Since his nomination, he has focused on that part of his curriculum and his prosecutions of violent criminals as his main credentials for work.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.