Voting Rights Groups Are Concerned About Priorities Shifting Under Trump's Justice Department

The Justice Department appears poised to take a very different approach to investigating voting and elections.

Conservative calls to overhaul the department by removing career employees, increasing federal voter fraud cases and investigating the 2020 election are raising concerns among voting rights groups about the future of the agency under Pam Bondi , a longtime ally of President Donald Trump who will face a confirmation vote later this week.

Bondi supported Trump's legal efforts to overturn the 2020 Pennsylvania election results, has reiterated his false claims about his loss that year and during her Senate confirmation hearing refused to directly state that former President Joe Biden won , saying only that she accepted the results. She pledged to remain independent.

"Nobody should be prosecuted for political purposes," Bondi told senators.

The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said after the hearing that he was struggling with Bondi's responses to key questions.