Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump‘s attorney general nominee, vowed to senators that she would improve confidence in the Department of Justice on Wednesday during her confirmation hearing.
“Like the president, I believe we are on the cusp of a new golden age where the Department of Justice can and will do better if I am confirmed,” Bondi said in her opening remarks.
Bondi said she wanted to “get back to the basics, gangs, drugs, terrorists, cartels, our border, and our foreign adversaries.” She praised the First Step Act, a sweeping criminal justice reform bill passed in Trump’s first term, and said she planned to do more to expand on it.
“If confirmed, I will do everything in my power, and it will be my great responsibility to make America safe again,” Bondi said.
In a nod to Republicans’ concerns about a perceived two-tiered justice system, she…
