FIRST ON FOX — Dozens of former Justice Division officers despatched a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday urging affirmation of President-elect Donald Trump’s choose for legal professional common, Pam Bondi, later this month— praising each her dedication to the rule of regulation and her monitor document as Florida’s former legal professional common that they stated makes her uniquely certified for the position.
The letter, previewed completely to Fox Information Digital, was signed by greater than 110 senior Justice Division officers who served below each Democratic and Republican administrations, together with former U.S. attorneys common John Ashcroft, Jeff Classes, Invoice Barr, and Edwin Meese.
Former appearing legal professional common Matthew Whitaker, deputy attorneys common Rod Rosenstein and Jeffrey Rosen, and Randy Grossman, who served because the U.S. legal professional for the Southern District of California below the Biden administration, are among the many different notable signatories.
The DOJ alumni expressed their “strong and enthusiastic support” for Bondi, Florida’s former legal professional common, who additionally spent 18 years as a prosecutor within the Hillsborough County State Legal professional’s workplace.
“It is all too rare for senior Justice Department officials—much less Attorneys General—to have such a wealth of experience in the day-to-day work of keeping our communities safe,” they wrote.
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Former Florida Legal professional Common Pam Bondi speaks throughout a press convention exterior Trump’s hush cash trial in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Pictures) (Getty)
“As a career prosecutor, Attorney General Bondi will be ready from the first day on the job to fight on behalf of the American people to reduce crime, tackle the opioid crisis, back the women and men in blue, and restore credibility to the Department of Justice,” they wrote within the letter, despatched to Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and and Dick Durbin, D-Sick.
The letter praised Bondi’s work as Florida’s legal professional common, the place she led an aggressive crackdown on opioid medicine and the various “pill mills” working within the state when she took workplace. Additionally they praised what they described as Bondi’s “national reputation” for her work to finish human trafficking, and prosecuting violent crime within the state.
Officers additionally emphasised Bondi’s different achievements in Florida, the place she secured client safety victories and financial aid on behalf of residents within the Sunshine State. After the 2008 monetary disaster, her work main the Nationwide Mortgage Settlement resulted in $56 billion in compensation to victims, the letter stated — and in wake of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Bondi’s lawsuit of BP and different firms accountable resulted in a $2 billion settlement in financial aid.
The letter additionally confused Bondi’s dedication to the rule of regulation, and what the previous officers touted as her monitor document of working throughout the aisle through the greater than twenty years she spent as a prosecutor.
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Pam Bondi, former Florida legal professional common, arrives to talk through the Republican Nationwide Conference on the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Pictures/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures)
“Some of us have worked directly with Attorney General Bondi during her time in office and can personally attest to her integrity and devotion to the rule of law,” they wrote. “Many more of us know and admire her well-earned reputation from her long and accomplished career in government service in Florida, her litigation and advocacy on the national stage, and her demonstrated courage as a lawyer.”
“As former DOJ officials, we know firsthand the challenges she will face as Attorney General, and we also know she is up to the job.”
These near Bondi have praised her lengthy document as a prosecutor, and her staunch loyalty to the president-elect, alongside whom she has labored since 2020—first, serving to to signify him in his first impeachment trial, and extra just lately in her put up as co-chair of the Heart for Regulation and Justice on the America First Coverage Institute (AFPI) a assume tank arrange by former Trump staffers.
She additionally served in Trump’s first presidential time period as a member of his Opioid and Drug Abuse Fee.
Bondi’s former colleagues have advised Fox Information Digital they anticipate her to convey the identical playbook she utilized in Florida to Washington—this time with a watch to cracking down on drug trafficking, illicit fentanyl use, and the cartels chargeable for smuggling the medicine throughout the border.
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“We firmly believe the Justice Department and the Nation will benefit from Attorney General Bondi’s leadership,” the DOJ officers stated in conclusion, including: “We urge you in the strongest manner possible to confirm her as the next Attorney General of the United States.”
