President Donald Trump has nominated the former Florida attorney general to serve as the next U.S. attorney general.

Senate hearings are scheduled this week for several of Trump’s picks for the Cabinet. While many are rapidly gaining support for their confirmation, the remaining still have to go before the committees overseeing the agencies Trump wants them to run.

From the hearing's outset, Democratic senators' questions reflected valid and critical concerns but often in a poorly framed manner.

Asked by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse at her first confirmation hearing to serve as Donald Trump's attorney general, Pam Bondi said she would prosecute "bad" prosecutors like Kevin Clinesmith, who pleaded guilty to altering an email in a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) application in order to spy on a member of the Trump campaign during the early days of the FBI's Trump-Russia probe.

WASHINGTON — As President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, took questions from senators Wednesday, only about 2 in 10 U.S. adults were "extremely" or "very" confident ...

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The Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines Wednesday to advance the nomination of Pam Bondi for attorney general.

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Yet, Donald Trump’s nomination of Pam Bondi for attorney general represents a blatant disregard for these principles and the needs of working Bondi not right for U.S. attorney general Skip to ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Democrats are increasingly concerned that U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, usually a staunch foe of President Trump’s policies, could break with the party and support on ...

and everything to do with the fact that Rhode Island Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse, while not “confirmed as voting for Kennedy” nevertheless “appears to be actively considering it.” Naturally, the reasons why, given the high stakes, are both ...

Hegseth received a bachelor's degree in political science in 2003, where he also participated in the Army ROTC and published a campus publication titled The Princeton Tory. Hegseth later attended the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard ...