Pam Bondi confirmed as Trump's attorney general

The Senate has officially confirmed former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to serve as President Donald Trump's Attorney General.

The move comes after Trump's first pick for the role, disgraced former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz, withdrew from consideration amid opposition from Senate Republicans and a burgeoning controversy over a House Ethics Committee report detailing allegations of illicit drug use and sexual misconduct with an underage girl.

It also comes at a moment when Trump comes heavily under fire for a series of early moves to purge career prosecutors from the Justice Department involved with special counsel Jack Smith's former criminal prosecutions of him.

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Trump reportedly gave the order to terminate the prosecutors himself, and his allies scrambled to make it seem like he hadn't.

Bondi herself has a controversial history. She was involved in Trump's plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and earlier than that, she dropped a state probe into the Trump University fraud scheme at the same time as Trump's charitable foundation gave a contribution to a political group that supported her.

With Bondi confirmed, the fight over the apparatus of law enforcement moves to the confirmation fight over Kash Patel, a longtime Turmp loyalist and former GOP congressional staffer who is nominated to be Trump's director of the FBI, despite his long record of conspiracy theories, his threats to prosecute journalists, and his enemies lists against those who haven't bent to Trump's will.