The Senate has approved Pam Bondi to become U.S. attorney general, handing control of the Justice Department to a Trump loyalist who has refused to say whether Trump definitively lost the 2020 election. Democrats fear Bondi will weaponize the Justice Department to seek vengeance against Trump’s political foes.

Bondi’s confirmation comes after Trump purged dozens of career prosecutors and FBI agents who worked on two criminal cases against Trump: the mishandling of classified documents by Trump and his associates at Mar-a-Lago, and the January 6 Capitol insurrection. On Tuesday, two separate groups of FBI agents filed lawsuits seeking to block the public release of the names of thousands of Justice Department employees who worked on those criminal investigations.