***IMMEDIATE ACTION***Judiciary Committee Must Not Move Forward on Pam Bondi’s nomination for Attorney General (1-29-25)
On Wednesday, January 29, 2025, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee must decide whether to send the nomination of Pam Bondi to be Attorney General to the Senate floor for a confirmation vote. Because she has demonstrated that she will not vigorously enforce America’s civil rights laws and will not uphold the agency’s long-standing independence from undue political influences, she should be considered disqualified from serving as Attorney General.
As Trump’s chief lawyer during and after the 2020 election, Bondi fueled unfounded and dangerous lies about voting conspiracies and election fraud. Her participation in and support for Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and her refusal at her confirmation hearing to directly answer questions about her ability to impartially administer justice raise serious doubts about her devotion to the rule of law, her professional legal judgment, and her ability to lead the DOJ fairly without undue influence from Trump.
Bondi’s voter disenfranchisement activities, her defense of Florida’s ban of same-sex marriages after the Supreme Court invalidated a similar federal law, her support for restrictions on abortion and contraceptives, her attempts to declare the ACA unconstitutional, her support of a census citizenship question, and her refusal to denounce Trump’s dangerous anti-immigrant rhetoric or to admit birthright citizenship was the law of the land all clearly demonstrate that she lacks the commitment to defending the core tenets of our democracy and the civil and human rights of all people in America.
For these reasons, as your constituent, I urge you to oppose the nomination of Pam Bondi for Attorney General and to do everything in your power to convince a majority of the Judiciary Committee that, because she is profoundly unqualified to be Attorney General, her nomination should die in Committee.
ACTION One: Call the Senate.
SEN. MERKLEY: Portland office: 503-326-3386 | D.C. office: 202-224-3753
SEN. WYDEN: Portland office: 503-326-7525 | D.C. office: 202-224-5244
