{"id":4929,"date":"2025-01-15T16:08:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T16:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bondi-vows-she-wont-pursue-doj-enemies-list-but-defends-patel\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T16:08:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T16:08:56","slug":"bondi-vows-she-wont-pursue-doj-enemies-list-but-defends-patel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bondi-vows-she-wont-pursue-doj-enemies-list-but-defends-patel\/","title":{"rendered":"Bondi vows she won\u2019t pursue DOJ \u2018enemies list\u2019 \u2014 but defends Patel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi promised the Senate Judiciary Committee that she won\u2019t use her power to pursue a so-called \u201cenemies list,\u201d even as she defended FBI Director nominee Kash Patel\u2019s vow to target a list of people he views as \u201cgovernment gangsters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will never be an enemies list within the Department of Justice,\u201d Bondi said under questioning from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.).<\/p>\n<p>Asked to defend a comment she made on Fox News last year declaring that \u201cthe prosecutors will be prosecuted\u201d and \u201cthe investigators will be investigated,\u201d Bondi noted Wednesday that she also referred in that interview to focusing on \u201cbad\u201d prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all take an oath to uphold the law\u2026So, will everyone will be held to an equal, fair system of justice if I am the next attorney general? Absolutely,\u201d Bondi said forcefully. \u201cI will not target people simply because of their political affiliation. Justice will be administered evenhandedly throughout this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bondi also promised to maintain a policy limiting contacts between the Justice Department and the White House to preserve the independence of law enforcement investigations and decisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will meet with White House counsel and meet with the appropriate officials and follow the contacts policy,\u201d Bondi said. \u201cI believe that the Justice Department must be independent and must act independently\u2026.Politics will not play a part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bondi also vigorously defended Patel, Trump\u2019s FBI pick, saying he can be fair and has \u201cgreat experience.\u201d \u201cI believe that Kash is the right person at this time for this job,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi promised the Senate Judiciary Committee that she won\u2019t use her power to pursue a so-called \u201cenemies list,\u201d even as she defended FBI Director nominee Kash Patel\u2019s vow to target a list of people he views as \u201cgovernment gangsters.\u201d \u201cThere will never be an enemies list within the Department of Justice,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}