Another day, another Democratic embarrassment during confirmation hearings. This time, it was the Senate Judiciary Committee and the nominee was attorney general hopeful Pam Bondi, former attorney general of Florida.
Democratic senators plan to question President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general about her history as a lobbyist and the potential conflicts of interest, a clear display of how the party’s early attacks on Trump 2.0 are focused on corporate influence over the new administration.
Kathleen Parker watched the confirmation hearing for our possible (okay, probable) next attorney general, and thought Pam Bondi gave all sorts of nice, “reassuring” answers that were “crisp and succinct.”
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., raised concerns about Bondi’s ability to say no to Trump, saying he isn’t convinced the attorney general nominee has “the grit and gumption” to say no to the incoming president.
Senate Democrats have postponed the consideration of President Donald Trump’s choice for U.S. attorney general, Pam Bondi, by at least one week. The Judiciary Committee announced on Tuesday that it had canceled its scheduled hearing on Wednesday when members would have had the opportunity to vote to move Bondi’s nomination to the entire Senate.
US attorney general designee Pam Bondi fended off onslaughts from California Sens. Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla at her confirmation hearing Wednesday, both of whom grilled her about President-elect Donald Trump.
Pam Bondi refused to acknowledge President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden in her Senate confirmation hearing for U.S. attorney general on Wednesday, intensifying Democratic concerns that the former Florida attorney general would be a rubber stamp for the White House.
Trump said Bondi would “refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting Crime, and Making America Safe Again” in her role as attorney general.
From the hearing's outset, Democratic senators' questions reflected valid and critical concerns but often in a poorly framed manner.
Here are five key takeaways from the first day of Bondi’s confirmation hearing: Accusing President Joe Biden of coordinating political prosecutions, Bondi said that she would only bring cases based on “facts and law” and said she has not discussed starting investigations of Trump’s enemies with the president-elect.
Pam Bondi, Donald Trump's choice for attorney general, survived an at times contentious hearing while declining to say if Joe Biden won the 2020 vote.
Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff engaged in fierce verbal combat Wednesday with Attorney General-designate Pam Bondi, as they fought over her views ... by the House in 2023 in a partisan vote that got no Democratic support. Then a House member, he was the ...