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Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, Donald Trump’s nominee for Attorney General of the United States, met with the Senate Judiciary Committee for a hearing on her nomination yesterday. During the hearing, Bondi got into heated exchanges with some of the Democrat senators. Matthew Rice reports in The New York Sun:
Attorney general nominee Pam Bondi is winning praise from conservatives for her combative confirmation hearing today, where she sparred with Democrats and defended her record. Ms. Bondi was pressed by Democrats on birthright citizenship and her efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Ms. Bondi got into it with a number of the panel’s more liberal members, including California’s lawmakers, Senator Padilla and Senator Schiff.
Mr. Padilla pressed Ms. Bondi on the issue of birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment, which led the former Florida attorney general to get into a yelling match with the senator. President Trump has floated the idea of getting rid of birthright citizenship altogether, which most Constitutional scholars consider a bedrock protection afforded by the 14th Amendment.
“I will study birthright citizenship. I would love to meet with you,” Ms. Bondi responded, prompting Mr. Padilla to fire back: “Ma’am, you’re asking us to consider you to serve as the attorney general of the United States and you still need to study the 14th Amendment of the Constitution? That is not helping me have more confidence in your ability to do this job.”
Ms. Bondi then came back at the California senator: “I’m not gonna be bullied by you, Senator Padilla,” she said. When Mr. Padilla asked the nominee to describe the Citizenship Clause of the amendment, Ms. Bondi said, “I’m here to answer your questions. I’m not here to do your homework and study for you.”
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