Pam Bondi was sworn in as U.S. Attorney General on Wednesday, 5th February 2025, pledging to restore integrity to the Justice Department.
Bondi, a former Florida prosecutor and state attorney general, promised during her confirmation hearing last month to lead a Justice Department free from political influence or weaponisation.
She vowed that “partisanship, the weaponisation” at the Justice Department “will be gone,” and that “America will have one tier of justice for all.”
Bondi was sworn in at the Oval Office by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in the presence of an audience filled with her friends and family. The ceremony marked the beginning of her tenure as the nation’s top prosecutor, a role in which she is expected to spend her early days managing a firestorm of reassignments, lawsuits, and resignations from senior law enforcement officials, despite initial efforts to calm concerns and prevent fears of politicisation.
President Donald Trump, who praised Bondi after the ceremony, described her as “unbelievably fair and unbelievably good,” and someone who he said would “restore fair and impartial justice” at the department. He also commented on her impartiality, stating, “I know I’m supposed to say, ‘She’s going to be totally impartial with respect to Democrats,’ and I think she will be as impartial as a person can be.”
Bondi’s nomination received widespread support from over 110 former senior Justice Department officials, including former attorneys general and numerous Democratic and Republican state attorneys general. They praised her experience and ability to work across party and state lines.
Her swearing-in came hours after two groups of FBI agents filed separate lawsuits on Tuesday, seeking to block any public identification of employees involved in the January 6th investigations.
The FBI had complied with a request from Acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove to gather information from thousands of agents or their supervisors, detailing their roles in the investigation.
The lawsuits argue that any effort to review or discriminate against FBI employees involved in the investigations would be “unlawful and retaliatory,” and a violation of civil service protections under federal law.
