US attorney general designee Pam Bondi fended off onslaughts from California Sens. Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla at her confirmation hearing Wednesday, both of whom grilled her about President-elect Donald Trump.

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

Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, will face sharp questioning from Democratic senators at a confirmation hearing expected to center on concerns the Republican president-elect will look to use the Justice Department’s powers to seek retribution against his adversaries.

Pam Bondi refused to acknowledge President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden in her Senate confirmation hearing for U.S. attorney general on Wednesday, intensifying Democratic concerns that the former Florida attorney general would be a rubber stamp for the White House.

Kathleen Parker watched the confirmation hearing for our possible (okay, probable) next attorney general, and thought Pam Bondi gave all sorts of nice, “reassuring” answers that were “crisp and succinct.”

The Senate Judiciary Committee had a confirmation hearing for Pam Bondi, Donald Trump's pick for Attorney General. Cable news cut away. Here's why.

Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the Justice Department as attorney general, listens during her confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) The best thing about Pam Bondi is that she’s not Matt Gaetz,

Pam Bondi, Donald Trump's choice for attorney general, survived an at times contentious hearing while declining to say if Joe Biden won the 2020 vote.

Donald Trump nominees including Pam Bondi, who was selected for the Attorney General position, are cashing in on their MAGA celebrity status and raking in millions of dollars, according to new disclosures.

One lever available to Trump is ordering the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to audit his rivals: during the first Trump White House, former FBI Director James Comey was put through a brutal, forensic audit. Nonprofit journalism newsrooms that criticise the President-elect could have their charitable status revoked by the Treasury Department.

President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration comes at a pivotal time in American history. Insulated from controversy, Trump will enter the White House more prepared than when he first won in 2016.