Over 110 former Justice Department officials, including several former Attorneys General, have sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee urging the confirmation of Pam Bondi as Attorney General. They praised her experience as a prosecutor and Florida's Attorney General, highlighting her work on crime reduction and the opioid crisis.
Dozens of former Justice Department officials sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday urging confirmation of President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general , Pam Bondi , later this month— praising both her commitment to the rule of law and her track record as Florida’s former attorney general that they said makes her uniquely qualified for the role.
The letter, previewed exclusively to Fox News Digital, was signed by more than 110 senior Justice Department officials who served under both Democratic and Republican administrations, including former U.S. attorneys general John Ashcroft, Jeff Sessions, Bill Barr and Edwin Meese. Former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, deputy attorneys general Rod Rosenstein and Jeffrey Rosen, and Randy Grossman, who served as the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of California under the Biden administration, are among the other notable signatories. The DOJ alumni expressed their 'strong and enthusiastic support' for Bondi, Florida’s former attorney general, who also spent 18 years as a prosecutor in the Hillsborough County State Attorney’s office. '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. '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 in the letter sent to Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Dick Durbin, D-Ill. The letter praised Bondi's work as Florida's attorney general, where she led an aggressive crackdown on opioid drugs and the many 'pill mills' operating in the state when she took offic
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