Pam Bondi highlighted her desire to "get back to the basics, gangs, drugs, terrorists, cartels, our border, and our foreign adversaries" and praised the First Step Act, a sweeping criminal justice reform bill passed in Trump’s first term.

President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, vowed to remain independent and nonpartisan during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. Bondi did not distance herself from disproven claims about the 2020 election or rebuke the rhetoric of some of her fellow Cabinet nominees,