Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Justice Department, Pam Bondi, is set to face questions Wednesday on Capitol Hill over her loyalty to the Republican president-elect, who has vowed to use the agency to

Attorney general nominee Pam Bondi dodged a question from Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Wednesday about whether President-elect Trump lost the 2020 election. Bondi echoed other Republicans in

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi (R), is testifying in her first of two scheduled confirmation hearings Wednesday. While Bondi isn’t considered among the Trump nominees that the Republican-majority Senate is likely to potentially reject, her testimony is being closely watched.

Serving as the nation’s chief law enforcement officer requires independence and sound judgment and the ability to accept court rulings even when you disagree with them.

Pam Bondi sought to allay the concerns of Democrats who said they feared Trump and his allies would use the Justice Department to target their political enemies.

After more than a decade of defending Trump, Pam Bondi is now the president-elect's nominee to be the country's top prosecutor and reform the Department of Justice.

In 2020, Bondi supported Trump's efforts to overturn the election, embracing false claims of voter fraud and asserting that " we won Pennsylvania ," a state Trump in fact lost by 80,000 votes. Durbin responded to Bondi's deflection by saying that he thought his question “deserved a yes or no.”

Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff engaged in fierce verbal combat Wednesday with Attorney General-designate Pam Bondi, as they fought over her views on the 2020 elections, immigration and presidential pardons. At one point, a frustrated Bondi told Schiff “You were censured by Congress for comments just like this that are so reckless.”

Senate Democrats grilled Bondi about past comments she made about fraud in the 2020 election. She refused to say whether Biden had "won" the election.

Pam Bondi, President-elect Trump's nominee for the Department of Justice, recently faced the Senate Judiciary Committee for her confirmation hearings. As the former Attorney General of Florida, Bondi is well-regarded by conservatives and has substantial support from Republican committee members,

Pam Bondi’s hearing came on the second day of high-profile confirmation hearings for Trump’s second-term nominees. PolitiFact fact checked her statements.