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  • LARRY KUDLOW: Sheriff Pam Bondi is making New York great again

    LARRY KUDLOW: Sheriff Pam Bondi is making New York great again

    After just a couple of days of being sworn in as Attorney General, Pam Bondi is laying the law down, especially on illegal immigration. And especially on illegal immigration in New York.

    All New Yorkers — in the city, the suburbs, and upstate — should be cheering her on for making the Empire State a safer and more decent place to live.

    Here’s what she had to say:

    This is a new DOJ, and we are taking steps to protect Americans, American citizens, and angel moms… New York has chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens. It stops. It stops today – as you know, we sued Illinois, and New York didn’t listen. So now, you’re next.

    – Attorney General Pam Bondi, February 12

    And our new Sheriff Bondi is going after something called New York’s Green Light Law, which allows illegal immigrants to get drivers licenses and stops the Department of Motor Vehicles from telling ICE.

    So, Bondi sued all the New York Trump Derangement Syndrome operatives, including so-called Attorney General Letitia James and so-called Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

    And, just for the heck of it, Bondi threw in the DMV commissioner, who no one has ever even heard of.

    The point here is that the new Trump Justice Department is busting through sanctuary cities and states, left and right. Bondi has already hit Illinois, and now she’s hitting New York.

    And, of course, the far-left James-Bragg left-wing Soviet-like cabal deserves everything they get for their attempted weaponization jihad against President Donald Trump, where they tried to throw him in jail for 700 years, take all his businesses away, and bankrupt him.

    All of that was one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in history.

    Whether or not AG Bondi had that in mind we’ll never know, but bravo to her for correctly arguing that federal law supersedes state and local law. And giving Tom Homan and his ICE brigade the right to capture and deport the murderers and rapists who have broken the law.

    There’s no escape for them under the new Trump-appointed sheriffs. And these local yokel New York officials can whine as much as they want, but the voters’ tide has turned against them.

    And then we come to the case of Mayor Eric Adams, whose biggest crime during the Biden years was to begin cooperating with federal officials to stop the flood of illegals coming into the Red Apple. So the Bidens weaponized the legal system against him.

    A phony indictment from Biden’s Justice Department tried to lay him out, basically for doing nothing more than taking a couple of first-class airplane seat upgrades and helping a foreign embassy get a faster repair job.  

    The Trump-Bondi Justice Department dropped the indictment against Mayor Adams. And now you have a couple of Assistant U.S. Attorneys screaming like banshees, with highly visible resignation letters that no one really cares about.

    Left-wing news outlets are telling us how brilliant these former prosecutors are, but, if so, they’re only book-smart or pedigree-smart.

    They are not street-smart, with no common sense at all, because Adams is cooperating with Bondi and Homan to get the illegals out of New York and make New York safe again, even reopening ICE facilities on Rikers Island.

    You could say the new Trump sheriffs are now weaponizing justice in favor of Mayor Adams — but so that he can fight migrant crime and get rid of illegals.

    I’m calling this good weaponization. High moral ground weaponization. Law and order, safety weaponization.

    And because of his good works, Democratic Mayor Eric Adams is being mentioned as a possible Republican Mayor Eric Adams.

    Stay tuned for more on that.

  • Attorney General Pam Bondi stripped Biden, Harris portraits from DOJ wall

    Attorney General Pam Bondi stripped Biden, Harris portraits from DOJ wall

    Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday personally stripped the Justice Department’s walls of portraits of former President Joe Biden, former Vice President Kamala Harris, and her own predecessor, former Attorney General Merrick Garland, saying it was “ridiculous” for the portraits to still be hanging nearly three weeks into President Donald Trump’s tenure

    Bondi’s role in personally removing the portraits, first shared on X by the New York Post’s Miranda Devine, was confirmed to Fox News Digital by a Justice Department official.

    Bondi “saw portraits of Garland, Biden, Harris were still up, and she took the initiative to take them off the walls herself and stack them in the corner,” the official told Fox News. 

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    President Donald Trump speaks before Pam Bondi is sworn in as attorney general in the Oval Office of the White House by Justice Clarence Thomas. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

    The actions come after Bondi, who was sworn in earlier this month, vowed during her confirmation hearing in January not to politicize the Justice Department. 

    Bondi, a longtime state prosecutor in Florida and two-time state attorney general, used her roughly five-hour confirmation hearing last month to vow that, if confirmed, the “partisanship, the weaponization” at the Justice Department “will be gone.” 

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    U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris

    Former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris (AP Photo/Getty Images)

    “America will have one tier of justice for all,” she said. 

    Trump, for his part, praised Bondi during her swearing-in ceremony earlier this month as “unbelievably fair and unbelievably good,” and someone who he said will “restore fair and impartial justice” at the department. 

    Pam Bondi and Merrick Garland

    Attorney General Pam Bondi and former Attorney General Merrick Garland (AP/Getty Images)

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    “I know I’m supposed to say, ‘She’s going to be totally impartial with respect to Democrats,’” Trump told reporters then, “and I think she will be as impartial as a person can be.”

  • Attorney General Pam Bondi to travel to New Orleans to survey Super Bowl LIX security

    Attorney General Pam Bondi to travel to New Orleans to survey Super Bowl LIX security

    Pam Bondi will spend her first full day as U.S. attorney general Thursday traveling to New Orleans to survey security of the Super Bowl game this Sunday, Fox News has learned.

    Her trip is part of an effort to highlight the administration’s broader commitment to crack down on violent crime and acts of terrorism.

    Bondi will be accompanied by Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry, the Justice Department said, where she will meet with multiple law enforcement groups at the federal and local level, including DOJ components and the FBI field office.

    BONDI’S DOJ DAY 1 DIRECTIVES; FIGHT WEAPONIZATION OF JUSTICE, ELIMINATE CARTELS, LIFT DEATH PENALTY BAN

    Trump attorney general nominee Pam Bondi is seen testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee, alongside a logo of the Justice Department.  (AP Images/Getty)

    Her visit comes less than two months after a man used a vehicle to ram through crowds on Bourbon Street in New Orleans early New Year’s Day, killing at least 14 people and injuring more than 30 others in what FBI officials said was being investigated as an act of terrorism.

    While in New Orleans, Bondi plans to conduct briefings during the visit related to preventing another terrorist attack in New Orleans, DOJ officials told Fox News.

    The visit comes as Bondi looks to move on her Day One prioritie— among them, cracking down on terrorist-linked or inspired attacks on U.S. soil.

    This is a breaking news story. Check back for updates.

  • Senate confirms Pam Bondi as U.S. attorney general

    Senate confirms Pam Bondi as U.S. attorney general

    Members of the Senate voted late Tuesday to confirm Pam Bondi, attorney general nominee of President Donald Trump, voting 54-46 to install the longtime prosecutor and former Florida attorney general to head up the U.S. Department of Justice. 

    Bondi’s confirmation comes as both the Justice Department and FBI have been under scrutiny by Democrats in Congress, who have raised concerns over Trump’s recent decision to pardon or commute the sentences of 1,600 criminal dependents in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots and to oust more than 15 inspectors general and special counsel investigators. 

    To date, there are no known plans to conduct sweeping removals or take punitive action against the agents involved in the Jan. 6 investigations.

    But U.S. Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove sparked fresh concerns last week after he directed the acting FBI director to identify all current and former bureau employees assigned to the Jan. 6 cases for internal review. 

    FBI AGENTS GROUP TELLS CONGRESS TO TAKE URGENT ACTION TO PROTECT AGAINST POLITICIZATION 

    Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Justice Department as attorney general, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee for her confirmation hearing on Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

    The effort prompted FBI agents to file two separate lawsuits on Tuesday seeking emergency injunctive relief in federal court, arguing in the lawsuits that any effort by DOJ or FBI to review or discriminate against agents involved in the Jan. 6 probe would be both “unlawful and retaliatory” and a violation of civil service protections.

    Bondi has repeatedly said she will not use her position to advance any political agenda, a refrain she returned to many times during her hours-long confirmation hearing. 

    “Politics has to be taken out of this system,” Bondi told the Senate Judiciary Committee last month. 

     TRUMP AG NOMINEE PAM BONDI ADVANCES TO FINAL SENATE VOTE

    Pam Bondi speaks at a press conference

    Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during a press conference while on a break from former President Donald Trump’s hush money trial outside Manhattan Criminal Court on May 21, 2024, in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

    Bondi’s nomination earned praise both from Republicans and some Democrats in the chamber for her composure and her ability to deftly navigate thorny and politically tricky topics and lines of questioning from some would-be detractors. 

    She was widely expected to see a glide path to confirmation after the hearing, and her nomination had earned the praise of more than 110 former senior Justice Department officials, including former attorneys general, and dozens of Democrat and Republican state attorneys general, who praised her experience and work across party and state lines.

    Those backers described Bondi in interviews and letters previewed exclusively to Fox News Digital as an experienced and motivated prosecutor whose record has proved to be more consensus-builder than bridge-burner.

    “It is all too rare for senior Justice Department officials – much less Attorneys General – to have such a wealth of experience in the day-to-day work of keeping our communities safe,” former Justice Department officials wrote in a letter urging her confirmation.

    Bondi’s former colleagues in Florida also told Fox News Digital they expect her to bring the same playbook she used in Florida to Washington – this time, with an eye to cracking down on drug trafficking, illicit fentanyl use and the cartels responsible for smuggling the drugs across the border.

    Democrat Dave Aronberg, who challenged Bondi in her bid for Florida attorney general, told Fox News Digital in an interview that he was stunned when Bondi called him up after winning the race and asked him to be her drug czar.

    ‘UNLIKELY COALITION’: A CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM ADVOCATE SEES OPPORTUNITIES IN A SECOND TRUMP TERM

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    Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference meeting on Feb. 23, 2024, in National Harbor, Md. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

    He also praised Bondi for staring down political challenges before noting that when she took office in Florida, Bondi “received a lot of pushback” from members of the Republican Party” for certain actions, including appointing a Democrat to a top office. 

    “But she stood up to them, and she did what she thought was right, regardless of political pressure,” Aaronberg told Fox News Digital on the eve of her confirmation vote. “So that’s what gives me hope here, is that she’ll right the ship and refocus the Department of Justice on policy not politics.” 

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    In floor remarks Monday evening, Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley praised Bondi’s prosecutorial experience and her time as a public servant, noting that she made history as the first female attorney general in Florida. 

    Bondi “fought against pill mills, eliminated the backlog of rape test kits and stood for law and order,” Grassley told lawmakers shortly before the Senate cloture vote, noting that Bondi “was easily reelected to a second term” as state attorney general “because she did such a great job.”

  • Senate confirms Trump AG nominee Pam Bondi

    Senate confirms Trump AG nominee Pam Bondi

    President Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee, Pam Bondi, will now move on to a final Senate floor vote for confirmation after senators voted to invoke cloture and limit the remaining floor debate.

    Bondi, the former Florida attorney general who also spent 18 years as a prosecutor in Hillsborough County, earned praise this month for her composure during her confirmation hearing, which stretched for nearly six hours. She was also praised for her ability to deftly navigate thorny and politically tricky topics and lines of questioning from some would-be detractors. 

    If confirmed, Bondi stressed, her primary goal would be to enforce federal law without political considerations.

    “Politics has to be taken out of this system,” Bondi told the Senate Judiciary Committee, a refrain she returned to multiple times during her conversations with lawmakers.  

    “This department has been weaponized for years and years and years, and it has to stop,” she said. 

     TRUMP AG PICK PAM BONDI CLEARS JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, WILL GET CONFIRMATION VOTE IN SENATE

    Pam Bondi, former Florida attorney general, speaks at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing at a U.S. Capitol. (Photo by Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA)

    Bondi’s experience and composure in her meetings with lawmakers, as well as during the confirmation hearing itself, won wide praise from Republicans on the panel, as well as some Democrats, who voted last week to approve her nomination. 

    The vote clears Bondi’s nomination to the Senate floor for a full chamber vote.

    Bondi’s experience also earned the backing of former senior officials at the Justice Department, who urged lawmakers in a letter this month to swiftly move to confirm her.

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    Pam Bondi, left; Sen. Blumenthal, right

    President Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee Pam Bondi and Sen. Richard Blumenthal clashed during her confirmation hearing. (Getty Images)

    In letters previewed exclusively to Fox News Digital, the more than 110 senior Justice Department officials, including former U.S. attorneys general John Ashcroft, Jeff Sessions, Bill Barr and Edwin Meese, expressed their “strong and enthusiastic support” for Bondi, praising both her commitment to the rule of law and her track record as Florida’s former attorney general that they said make her uniquely qualified for the role.

    “It is all too rare for senior Justice Department officials—much less Attorneys General—to have such a wealth of experience in the day-to-day work of keeping our communities safe,” they wrote.

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    Pam Bondi at confirmation hearing

    Pam Bondi, President Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Justice Department as attorney general, listens during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Jan 15, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Jabin Botsford/Washington Post via Getty)

    She was also backed by dozens of former Republican and Democratic state attorneys general, who sent a letter urging her confirmation earlier this month.

    “Many of us have worked directly with Attorney General Bondi and have firsthand knowledge of her fitness for the office,” the former attorneys general said in the letter, also exclusively previewed to Fox News Digital. “We believe that her wealth of prosecutorial experience and commitment to public service make General Bondi a highly qualified nominee for Attorney General of the United States.” 

  • Tennis great Pam Shriver reunited with stolen trophies taken while evacuating Los Angeles wildfires

    Tennis great Pam Shriver reunited with stolen trophies taken while evacuating Los Angeles wildfires

    Tennis legend Pam Shriver has finally been reunited with her stolen trophies. 

    The Hall of Fame tennis pro confirmed on social media that several pieces of hardware and sentimental items were returned to her by the Los Angeles Police Department after they were stolen, along with her car, while she was staying in a hotel after evacuating her home because of the devastating wildfires. 

    FILE – USA Pam Shriver and USA Martina Navratilova victor in Flushing, NY, September 4, 1987. (Jacqueline Duvoisin /Sports Illustrated via Getty Images)

    “Good news on my trophies (& family photos) – the LAPD detective in charge of the investigation has them at the police station being fingerprinted,” she said in a post on X this week. 

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    “It’s too long a story for a post. We still hope to find black Dodge Durango Hellcat in one piece.” 

    Shriver, who won 21 Grand Slam doubles championships, told The Associated Press that she had loaded up her vehicle with some of her personal belongings, including her trophies and some family photos, before evacuating the area. 

    While staying at a hotel, her car – and everything inside – was taken. 

    Pam Shriver looks on

    July 9, 2024 – Former player and TV Commentator, Pam Shriver in attendance as coach for Donna Vekic of Croatia (not shown) during her match against Lulu Sun of New Zealand (not shown) on day nine of The Championships at All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. (Susan Mullane-USA Today Sports)

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    “The trophies were buried in the back of the car. You couldn’t look in the window and see them,” she said. “I don’t think they were of any good to the people who took the car. So they ended up returning them.”

    The trophies were later dropped off at the hotel, where a detective picked them up to be fingerprinted. 

    “Then the trophies were released to me,” she said. “I regained custody.”

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    According to ESPN, security camera footage revealed that a person driving a car that “fit” the description of Shriver’s stolen Dodge Durango Hellcat was seen dropping off the trophies. 

    Among the trophies returned to Shriver included five that she had one for winning the U.S. Open women’s doubles event and the four French Open doubles trophies she had won alongside Martina Navratilova. Shriver won 20 of 21 titles with Navratilova. 

    Pam Shriver and Martina Navratilova

    USA Pam Shriver and USA Martina Navratilova before Women’s Doubles at National Tennis Center in Flushing, NY, September 4, 1987. (Jacqueline Duvoisin /Sports Illustrated via Getty Images)

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    Shriver said she returned to find that her home had, thankfully, not been damaged by the wildfires, but she wonders where her belongings had traveled.

    “It was an interesting chapter. I wish the trophies could talk,” she said. “I would like to have known where they’ve been.”

    The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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  • Trump AG pick Pam Bondi clears Judiciary, will get confirmation vote in Senate

    Trump AG pick Pam Bondi clears Judiciary, will get confirmation vote in Senate

    The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday voted to favorably report Pam Bondi’s nomination for U.S. attorney general to the Senate, a widely expected vote that clears her for a vote in the full chamber later this week.

    She secured the votes of the committee’s 12 Republicans, with all 10 Democrats voting against.

    Bondi, the former Florida attorney general, made a name for herself in Florida by cracking down on drug trafficking, violent crime, and the many “pill mills” operating in the state. She also spent 18 years as a prosecutor for the Hillsborough County state attorney’s office, giving her the experience that many believe she will need to serve as the top U.S. attorney.

    Bondi was expected to see a glide path to confirmation ahead of Wednesday’s vote. Her nomination to be President Donald Trump’s attorney general also earned the praise of more than 110 former senior Justice Department officials, including former attorneys general, and dozens of Democratic and Republican state attorneys general, who praised her experience and work across party and state lines.

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    Pam Bondi, former Florida Attorney General, speaking at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing at a U.S. Capitol. (Photo by Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA)

    Those backers described Bondi in interviews and letters previewed exclusively to Fox News Digital as an experienced and motivated prosecutor whose record has proved to be more consensus-builder than bridge-burner.

    In her confirmation hearing earlier this month, Bondi stressed that, if confirmed to head up DOJ, the “partisanship, the weaponization will be gone. “America will have one tier of justice for all.”

    Whether the approach will prove successful, however, remains to be seen.

    The confirmation vote Wednesday was held against a strikingly different political backdrop than just two weeks ago, when Bondi testified days before Trump’s swearing-in.

    In his first nine days in office, Trump has fired more than 15 inspectors general from top federal agencies, ousted more than a dozen special counsel members tasked with investigating him, and reassigned or removed officials from top posts at the department.

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    Pam Bondi

    Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Justice Department as attorney general, is sworn in before the Senate Judiciary Committee for her confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

    He also froze new hiring at DOJ, issued a sweeping clemency grant for more than 1,500 criminal defendants charged in the January 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol and installed as acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia a criminal defense attorney who represented several high-profile rioters.

    Combined, Democrats have raised serious concerns about these actions— and about Bondi’s ability to steer the Justice Department in the face of a willful, and at times seemingly impulsive president-elect, and questioned her willingness to go after political “enemies” and asked her to give credence to certain remarks made by Kash Patel, Trump’s FBI nominee.

    But Bondi appeared composed and largely unflappable during the course of her confirmation hearing, which stretched for more than five hours, save for a 30-minute lunch break.

    She highlighted her record on fighting violent crime, drug trafficking, and human trafficking as Florida’s top prosecutor, and outlined her broader vision for heading up the Justice Department, where she stressed her desire to lead a department free from political influence.

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    DOJ sign, left; Pam Bondi, right

    Justice Department logo and Pam Bondi (Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images, left, and MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images, right.)

    If confirmed, Bondi’s former colleagues have told Fox News Digital they expect her to bring the same playbook she used in Florida to Washington – this time with an eye to cracking down on drug trafficking, illicit fentanyl use, and the cartels responsible for smuggling the drugs across the border.
    Democrat Dave Aronberg, who challenged Bondi in her bid for Florida attorney general, told Fox News Digital in an interview that he was stunned when Bondi called him up after winning the race and asked him to be her drug czar.

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    He noted that she’s stared down political challenges before. When she took office in Florida, Aaronberg said, Bondi “received a lot of pushback” from members of the Republican Party for certain actions she took,” including appointing a Democrat to a top office.

    “But she stood up to them and she did what she thought was right, regardless of political pressure,” Aaronberg told Fox News Digital on the eve of her confirmation vote. “So that’s what gives me hope here, is that she’ll editorship and refocus the Department of Justice on policy and politics. You know, I’m hopeful she’ll focus on and I know that the border and the and human trafficking and the rise of anti-Semitism in our country and on college campuses, those won’t be popular positions.”