Within hours of former Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz (R) announcing his withdrawal from President-Elect Donald Trump‘s nomination for US Attorney General, a former Florida Attorney General was announced as Gaetz’s replacement.
Trump nominated Pam Bondi, who served as Florida Attorney General from 2010 through 2018. Bondi became one of the nation’s leading critics of former President Obama’s administration during her tenure. Known as a conservative firebrand, Bondi frequently appeared on Fox News and contributed op-eds to the Wall Street Journal to condemn what she described as federal government overreach, including mandates from the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.
Bondi’s confirmation hearing in the Senate will likely return focus to a decision she made against pursuing a fraud lawsuit in 2013 filed against Trump University and then private citizen Donald Trump. Bondi’s decision not to pursue that case came after Trump made a $25,000 donation to her re-election campaign. Senate Democrats will most likely bring up that incident, along with Bondi’s initial resistance to the Supreme Court’s decision in favor of gay marriage.
