The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday voted in favor of sending the nomination for Pam Bondi as U.S. attorney general to a final, full chamber vote.

During her Senate confirmation hearing, Bondi was asked by Louisiana GOP Sen. John Kennedy about notable figures in prison and the importance of removing “politicization” from the Department of justice.

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.

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"We have heard the words weaponized, politicized again and again and again and Pam Bondi is agreeing with those things." "The suggestion that because the Justice Department charged Donald Trump with interfering in the January 6th in the election of 2020 and with retaining false documents,

Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal said he was "deeply disturbed" by some of Bondi's responses during the hearing, particular her earlier not answering directly when asked whether Trump lost the 2020 election.

Without asking Bondi a direct question, Republican Sen. Thom Tillis attacked Democrats for asking Bondi whether she would support pardons for violent Jan. 6 rioters -- even after Bondi declined to answer directly earlier in the hearing whether such a move would be acceptable to her.

Pam Bondi sought to allay the concerns of Democrats who said they feared Trump and his allies would use the Justice Department to target their political enemies.

Pam Bondi acknowledged in a government questionnaire that Brad Bondi’s legal work could pose a conflict of interest, and committed to handle matters ethically.

Four years after trying to overturn Trump’s defeat, the prospective attorney general nominee still won’t answer core questions about the 2020 election.

"Pam Bondi CLAPS BACK," Abigail Jackson, communications director for GOP Sen. Josh Hawley, posted on X. "Pam Bondi isn't playing with these far-left Senators," the Media Research Center posted on X.

Padilla and Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., are members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which held a confirmation hearing on Bondi Wednesday. The hearings continue Thursday. Republicans control 53 of the Senate’s 100 seats, and GOP committee members praised Bondi, a former Florida attorney general, throughout the hearing.