Trump’s attorney general pick to face scrutiny on first day of Senate hearing
Pam Bondi, first female Florida attorney general and Trump loyalist, will answer if she can resist White House pressure
Pam Bondi, Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, is expected to face scrutiny about her ability to resist political interference from the White House on Wednesday as she appears before the Senate judiciary committee for the first day of her confirmation hearing.
The hearing at 9.30 am comes at a crunch time for the department, which has faced unrelenting criticism from Trump after its prosecutors charged him in two federal criminal cases and is about to see Trump’s personal lawyers in those cases take over key leadership positions.
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