Schiff and Bondi reignite old grudges at confirmation hearing: ‘You were censured’

Published January 15, 2025 3:42pm ET



Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee, had an adversarial reunion Wednesday when they went toe-to-toe in what sounded more like a lecturing match than a confirmation hearing.  

The pair engaged in a combative string of questions and answers that at times drudged up apparently unsettled grievances from the last time the two squared off in 2020, when Schiff was a House impeachment manager in Trump’s first impeachment trial and Bondi a personal defense attorney for the then-president.

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