By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and STEPHEN GROVES

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Pam Bondi defended herself against Democratic criticism that she had weaponized the Justice Department at a Tuesday congressional hearing where she was set to face tough questions over the political pressure on the law enforcement agency to pursue President Donald Trump’s perceived foes.

During her opening remarks, Bondi echoed conservative claims that President Joe Biden’s Justice Department, which brought two criminal cases against Trump, was the one that weaponized the law enforcement agency even though some of its most high-profile probes concerned the Democratic president and his son. Bondi pointed to revelations from a day earlier that the FBI had analyzed phone records of several Republi

See Full Page