The Senate has confirmed Pam Bondi as U.S. attorney general. Her confirmation puts a longtime ally of Donald Trump at the helm of a Justice Department that has already been rattled by the firings of career employees seen as disloyal to the Republican president.

Summary

The Senate confirmed Pam Bondi as U.S. attorney general in a 54-46 vote, solidifying a key Trump ally at the Justice Department.

Bondi, a former Florida attorney general, is expected to reshape the DOJ, which has faced mass firings of officials linked to Trump-related investigations.

She has echoed Trump’s claims of a “weaponized” justice system and refused to rule out prosecuting his adversaries.

  • leftytighty@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I’ll give you debt relief, with the caveat that it was more motivated by economics than political theory.

    Listing off a bunch of campaign promises, or even weaker examples, things said only to try to win over actual progressives, which Democrats “simply didn’t have enough seats” to pull off even while holding a majority, and then brushing off a “hot topic” issue of actually funding a Holocaust in our times.

    That attitude is why we’re here