How Pam Bondi Became One of the Safest Cabinet Picks 

United States: Pam Bondi is poised for an unexpectedly smooth Senate confirmation as Attorney General, with even some Senate Democrats backing her despite her past role in Trump’s 2020 election challenges. Her confirmation hearings, starting Wednesday, are expected to be uneventful, largely due to the controversies surrounding other nominees, especially Matt Gaetz, who withdrew amid scandal. 

As reported by the Politico, Bondi has also pursued a seemingly successful charm campaign with Senate Democrats; some of whom are already dickering for policy areas such as reforming the criminal justice system and antitrust laws. 

“I had a good meeting with her,” said Peter Welch, 58, a Democrat from Vermont, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee. “She was very direct, very responsive … The woman has lots of experience.” 

Among the things that worry democrats is having a trump loyalist heading the justice department given the incoming president once campaigning vowed to go after his enemies and fired attorneys general during his first tenure for refusing to do his bidding. And Bondi is one such loyalist; she was one of the attorneys who defended Trump during his first impeachment trial and helped try to overturn Biden’s 2020 victory in Pennsylvania. 

Meanwhile, Democrats have largely concluded that Bondi has the bare minimum qualifications to be the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, who will need to step in to enforce Trump’s deregulatory agenda and to defend his executive orders in court. Forcing the dignity-bind them is certain that Democrats – lacking the votes in a Republican – controlled Senate to torpedo any Trump nominee unilaterally – are not going to make the effort to disqualify Bondi collectively in a scorched earth campaign. 

A senior Democratic Senate aide who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal party planning noted that Democrats on the panel plan to largely focus on Trump, as opposed to Bondi’s service as Florida’s attorney general. 

“This is a woman who has she has the experience and background to manage one of the nation’s largest state departments of justice”, democrat Chris Coons of Delaware in the Senate Judiciary Committee warned. “She has been elected twice to serve as an attorney general.” She has overseen a very large statewide Attorney General Office.”