Attorney General Pam Bondi is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee for the first time since her confirmation hearing before the panel. Bondi touted her focus on combating violent crime under the Trump administration and highlighted efforts at different federal agencies under the Department of Justice's purview.

Senator Durbin confronts AG Pam Bondi on DOJ politicization, Qatar jet gift, troop deployments to Chicago, and Epstein file transparency during Senate Judiciary hearing.

Ahead of Bondi’s testimony, more than 280 former DOJ employees wrote a letter, urging Congress for more oversight due to the “degradation” of oaths to the U.S. Constitution and to upholding the law under the Trump administration.

A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday is poised to offer an unusual face-off: Sen. Adam B. Schiff, who says he’s being targeted by the president for political retaliation, asking questions of the attorney general whose department would sign off on any charges.

Sen. Dick Durbin and Attorney General Pam Bondi traded barbs about the National Guard and Chicago, with Bondi telling Durbin she wished he "loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump."

Her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee comes just before former FBI Director James Comey is set to make his first court appearance after an indictment on two counts of making false statements and obstruction of justice.