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 month 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

    • UsernameHereEnglish
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      1 month ago

      which Democrats “simply didn’t have enough seats” to pull off even while holding a majority

      This is the bad faith comment that leftists keep making. Pretending they don’t know that having 51 seats in senate doesn’t guarantee 51 votes. Or pretending they don’t know some of the legislation requires a supermajority, meaning we even don’t have enough seats.

      All so they can blame democrats for legislation not being passed. When in reality it is the leftists inability to win elections that is preventing us from having enough votes to pass this legislation.

      Especially when one of the votes we couldn’t count on was Sinema, yet another politician that ran as progressive and turned out to be a republican.