Attorney General Pam Bondi didn’t wait for Senate Democrats to ask their own pointed questions before she went on the attack Tuesday while testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
“You voted to shut the government down,” Bondi said in response to a question from Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the panel’s top ranking member, about the legal basis for sending National Guard troops into Chicago.
Bondi described hundreds of homicides in Chicago and argued Trump’s decision to send in the Guard was aimed at addressing violent crime that local police had not been able to contain. She noted that her deputy, Todd Blanche, and FBI Director Kash…
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