Pam Bondi is 4th ex-Donald Trump defense lawyer chosen for Justice Department

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Trump also nominated John Sauer for solicitor general, the nation's top advocate at the Supreme Court.
39% : The selections have sparked fears among Trump critics that the lawyers could prioritize personal loyalty to Trump over neutrally wielding the power of the Justice Department.
38% : Even as he was campaigning for president this year, Trump appeared to threaten rivals.
31% : Trump previously nominated his criminal defense attorneys Todd Blance and Emil Bove for the number two and three positions at the department, respectively.
30% : Blanche and Bove represented Trump in his New York hush money trial and his two federal criminal cases.
27% : He nominated John Sauer, who represented Trump in criminal and civil appeals, for solicitor general.
27% : Critics fear that lawyers who have represented Trump before may not be sufficiently independent or resistant to pressure from him.
26% : The Senate acquitted Trump in that trial, largely along party lines.
22% : "Trump has also nominated three defense lawyers who represented him in his criminal cases.
21% : Trump pleaded not guilty in two cases brought by the department's special counsel Jack Smith, one alleging he unlawfully tried to overturn the 2020 election and one claiming he mishandled classified documents after leaving office.
18% : The following spring, Trump told White House counsel Donald F. McGahn II he wanted to direct the Justice Department to prosecute both Clinton and former FBI director James Comey, according to the New York Times.
17% : Sauer represented Trump in appeals in the federal criminal case dealing with 2020 election interference and in Trump's New York civil fraud case.
12% : Bondi represented Trump in his first impeachment trial, in which he was accused of withholding aid to Ukraine in order to pressure the Ukrainian government to investigative now-President Joe Biden.
11% : In naming Bondi for the top Justice Department role Thursday, Trump said the department would no longer be politically "weaponized.""For too long, the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans - Not anymore," Trump posted on Truth Social.
6% : Trump's first attorney general, Jeff Sessions, told federal prosecutors Trump asked him to direct the department to investigate and prosecute Hillary Clinton in the summer of 2017, according to the Mueller report.

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