Senate confirms Pam Bondi for Attorney General
UPDATE (11:31 AM): President Donald Trump attended the swearing-in of his new Attorney General, Pam Bondi.
Taking place in the Oval Office Wednesday, Bondi was sworn in by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Before the swearing-in, President Trump praised Bondi, saying her leadership of the Department of Justice could be "historic."
"She's going to end the weaponization of federal law enforcement and restore honesty and integrity at the DOJ and the FBI. And she's gonna be working with Kash. And she's going to be working with a lot of other people that you been reading about, writing about over the last few weeks.
Pam has a historic and urgently needed task ahead of her, and probably there's never been a time, Clarence, that's more important than right now. Went through four years of not such good, not such good work in many ways, not just, not just with the President. At other levels, also with the President, obviously. She's going to restore fair, equal and impartial justice, and restore the constitutional rule of law in America."
President Donald Trump
WASHINGTON (NBC, KYMA/KECY) - Pam Bondi, President Donald Trump's selection to lead the Justice Department, has been confirmed.
The Senate voted 54 to 46 to confirm Bondi, a former Florida Attorney General, to be the nation's next Attorney General.
Bondi needed a simple majority to be confirmed.
Pennsylvania Democratic Senator John Fetterman joined all Republicans in supporting Bondi's confirmation.
Bondi got the nomination after Trump's first pick for the position, former Florida Representative Matt Gaetz, dropped out of the process.
