It’s just being reported that President Trump has appointed a career immigration attorney at the Justice Department to lead the DOJ while Pam Bondi awaits confirmation in the Senate.

Trump has picked James McHenry to be his acting Attorney General:

 
Just in case you, like me, don’t know much about McHenry, here’s a bit more context from Politico:

McHenry, seen as a hard-liner on immigration matters, had been working at DOJ in a position overseeing immigration judges before being tapped Monday for the temporary attorney general role. His appointment was confirmed by a Justice Department spokesperson.

McHenry is expected to serve in the post until Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Pam Bondi, is confirmed. The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to take up her nomination on Wednesday, but final confirmation could take a few more days or weeks.

Trump’s first attorney general in his first term, Jeff Sessions, named McHenry in 2017 as acting director of the Justice Department component that runs the immigration courts, the Executive Office of Immigration Review. He was given the job on a permanent basis the following year.

McHenry started at the Justice Department in 2003 and later served as a senior lawyer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security. He’s a graduate of Vanderbilt University Law School.

Emil Bove, an attorney for Trump in the criminal cases he faced, will serve as acting deputy attorney general as a colleague on those cases, Todd Blanche, awaits Senate confirmation.