{"id":2391077,"date":"2025-01-16T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pam-bondi-fires-back-against-dem-senators-bullying-routine-im-not-here-to-do-your-homework\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T10:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T15:19:24","slug":"pam-bondi-fires-back-against-dem-senators-bullying-routine-im-not-here-to-do-your-homework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pam-bondi-fires-back-against-dem-senators-bullying-routine-im-not-here-to-do-your-homework\/","title":{"rendered":"Pam Bondi Fires Back Against Dem Senator&#8217;s Bullying Routine: &#8216;I&#8217;m Not Here to Do Your Homework&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpam-bondi-fires-back-against-dem-senators-bullying-routine-im-not-here-to-do-your-homework%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2391077&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses a recent Senate\u2063 Judiciary Committee hearing featuring Pam Bondi, \u200ca nominee for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-ag-barr-authorizes-federal-prosecutors-to-pursue-substantial-allegations-of-voting-irregularities-before-2020-election-is-certified\/\" title=\"BREAKING: AG Barr Authorizes Federal Prosecutors to Pursue &quot;Substantial Allegations&quot; of Voting Irregularities Before 2020 Election is Certified\">attorney general<\/a> and former attorney general of Florida. The hearing was marked by confrontational exchanges, especially between Bondi and \u2062Senator Alex Padilla from California.\u200b Padilla questioned Bondi about her previous \u2063support for \u2063Donald Trump&#8217;s challenges to\u2063 the 2020 election results and disputed her responses\u2063 about the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship. Bondi bluntly stated that she was\u200d not there to &#8220;do [his] homework,&#8221; leading to a tense back-and-forth exchange,\u2062 with Padilla\u200c struggling to draw clear answers from her. The article highlights the\u200b embarrassment faced by democrats during \u2064the hearing, suggesting a sense of weariness and\u200b ineffectiveness among them, \u2062especially following their significant\u200c electoral losses. The overall tone implies that the Democratic party lacks conviction and\u200d momentum in their resistance against incoming Trump administration appointees.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Another day, another Democratic embarrassment during confirmation hearings.<\/p>\n<p>This time, it was the Senate Judiciary Committee and the nominee was attorney general hopeful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pam-bondi-reminds-adam-schiff-humiliating-past-confirmation-hearing-gets-heated-censured-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pam Bondi<\/a>, former attorney general of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Among those who went viral for poorly considered lines of questioning was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/calif-dems-beg-buttigieg-save-high-speed-rail-boondoggle-doge-trump-dump-money-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sen. Alex Padilla<\/a> of California, who wanted to tackle questions about, among other things, the 2020 election, birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Bondi&rsquo;s response to him was blunt: She wasn&rsquo;t there to &ldquo;do your homework.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The exchange began with the biggest substantive claim against Bondi: that she represented then-President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania during the 2020 election, when he sought to challenge the results legally.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>When Padilla asked her if she would &ldquo;retract your previous statements that Trump won Pennsylvania in the 2020 election, yes or no?&rdquo; Bondi responded by saing that she &ldquo;traveled to Pennsylvania, and let me tell you about what I saw.&rdquo; Padilla demanded a yes or no answer.<\/p>\n<p>She refused, at which point Padilla said he was &ldquo;going to move on because she&rsquo;s clearly not answering my questions,&rdquo; but went on to compare her to another Trump attorney, Rudy Giuliani.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s imperative, Ms. Bondi, that you subscribe to facts and evidence and not <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">politically convenient conspiracy theories<\/a>,&rdquo; Padilla said.<\/p>\n<p>When he stopped his lecture, he pointed at her, which she took as her cue to give an actual answer to a nuanced question. Nope! He steamrolled her and went into his question about the 14th Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You pointed your finger at me and said you were speaking. Let me answer your question. I&rsquo;m not going to be bullied by you, Sen. Padilla,&rdquo; she said as he tried to get his question out.<\/p>\n<p>And then, as he continued talking over her: &ldquo;I guess you didn&rsquo;t want to hear my answer about Pennsylvania.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>No, of course he didn&rsquo;t; that&rsquo;s not how these bloviation-fests work.<\/p>\n<p>Moving along, Padilla then asked her about the 14th amendment and whether it automatically grants someone citizenship if they&rsquo;re born in the country. He asked what the clause meant.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Senator, I&rsquo;m here to answer your questions, I&rsquo;m not here to do your homework and study for you,&rdquo;she quipped.<\/p>\n<p>Now the senator doth protest! &ldquo;You&rsquo;re the one asking for a confirmation vote, ma&rsquo;am,&rdquo; he said, again talking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/msnbc-personalities-panic-new-attorney-general-nominee-pam-bondi-worse-matt-gaetz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">over her<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Hey, you cut me off &mdash; can I please finish?&rdquo; Bondi responded, adding that the &ldquo;14th Amendment &mdash; we all know &mdash; addresses birthright citizenship.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>And then, a final stinger at the end of that line of questioning: &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t take your homework assignment, I&rsquo;m sorry. I was preparing for today.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The full exchange:<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BREAKING NEWS: Pam Bondi Claps Back At Alex Padilla: 'I'm Not Here To Do Your Homework!'\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KjXkwL-H258?start=200&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Bondi hearings came one day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/hegseth-hits-back-sec-def-nominees-top-5-comebacks-tuesdays-confirmation-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Pete Hegseth disaster<\/a>, in which Democrats flailed and failed to lay a substantive glove on what is arguably Trump&rsquo;s most controversial pick.<\/p>\n<p>If, after months of posturing and promising, they couldn&rsquo;t deliver a thing on a man the Democrats painted as a drunkard and creep &mdash; quite unfairly and on the basis of little evidence, if one is to judge by his hearing Tuesday &mdash; they can&rsquo;t really hope to change any minds on Pam Bondi, whose ascension seems as guaranteed as tomorrow&rsquo;s sunrise.<\/p>\n<p>However, it&rsquo;s worth noting just how weary the whole thing looked. Padilla wasn&rsquo;t the only Democrat to be embarrassed during the hearing, but he was the most beclowned member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/senate-judiciary-committee-deadlocks-scotus-nominee-jackson-wont-get-favorable-recommendation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate Judiciary Committee<\/a> on Wednesday. And, in a way, he&rsquo;s emblematic of how this process has already gone awry for a party licking its wounds after losing bigly in November.<\/p>\n<p>This time around, #TheResistance looks infinitely more listless and plodding, as if these pols know they&rsquo;re riding a wave that has long since crested and is creeping back into the progressive sea.<\/p>\n<p>They may use touchstone phrases from the leftist <em>annus mirabilis<\/em> of 2020 like &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-privacy-law-conflicts-with-duty-to-prevent-illegal-voting\/\" title=\"Wisconsin Privacy Law Conflicts With Duty To Prevent Illegal Voting\">election denier&#038;rdquo<\/a>; and &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/farmer-warns-trump-prepare-for-fallout-from-your-key-policy\/\" title=\"Farmer Warns Trump: Prepare for Fallout from Your Key Policy\">undocumented migrants&#038;rdquo<\/a>; &mdash; and still believe in what&rsquo;s behind them &mdash; but the delivery lacks conviction and they seem convinced that the whole thing is a lost cause. 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This time, the Senate Judiciary Committee was questioning Pam Bondi, a former Florida attorney general and nominee for attorney general. Sen. Alex Padilla from California gained attention for his poorly thought-out questions regarding the 2020 election, birthright citizenship, and the 14th Amendment. Bondi&#8217;s response was straightforward: she wasn&#8217;t there to &#8220;do your homework.&#8221; The exchange began with Padilla&#8217;s main accusation against Bondi: her representation of then-President Trump in Pennsylvania during his legal challenges to the election results.<\/p>\n<p>When Padilla pressed her to retract her claim that Trump won Pennsylvania in 2020 with a simple yes or no answer, Bondi replied by sharing her observations from Pennsylvania instead. Frustrated by her refusal to answer directly, Padilla stated he would move on but compared her to Rudy Giuliani. He insisted that she should rely on facts rather than politically motivated conspiracy theories while pointing at her as if signaling for an answer.<\/p>\n<p>Bondi retorted that she wouldn&#8217;t be bullied by him and noted that he seemed uninterested in hearing about Pennsylvania. As they continued their back-and-forth over the 14th Amendment and its implications for citizenship based on birthplace, Bondi quipped that she wasn&#8217;t there to do his homework but had prepared for the hearing instead.<\/p>\n<p>The hearings followed a previous debacle involving Pete Hegseth where Democrats struggled to challenge Trump&#8217;s controversial nomination effectively. With their recent failures fresh in mind, it appeared unlikely they could sway opinions about Bondi either; however, it highlighted how fatigued and ineffective their approach seemed this time around<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2391078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bondi-2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[17409,6672,32456,45476,5894],"class_list":["post-2391077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bullying","tag-commentary","tag-dem-senator","tag-pam-bondi","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/bondi-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391077"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2391081,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391077\/revisions\/2391081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2391078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}