Attorney General Pam Bondi was sworn in at the White House Wednesday and vowed that cracking down on crime throughout the country will be her top priority. 

“I will restore integrity to the Justice Department, and I will fight violent crime throughout this country and throughout this world and make America safe again,” Ms. Bondi said during an Oval Office ceremony.

Ms. Bondi was sworn in by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and stood alongside President Trump. She had about 25 guests at the ceremony, including her husband and mother.

The president called his newly minted attorney general “unbelievably fair and unbelievably good.”

“I know I’m supposed to say ’she’s going to be totally impartial with respect to Democrats,’ and I think she will be as impartial as a person can be,” he said referencing his campaign pledge to rid the Justice Department of the unelected bureaucrats whom he said engaged in lawfare against him ahead of the 2024 election. 

The Senate on Tuesday night voted 54-46 to confirm Ms. Bondi. The vote was largely along party lines — Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the only Democrat to join Republicans in supporting Ms. Bondi.

After the vote, Mr. Fetterman told reporters that he supported her because she was qualified, even though she is not his “ideal” choice. 

A former Florida prosecutor and attorney general, Ms. Bondi takes over the Justice Department at one of its most tumultuous times in history. The department is dealing with a barrage of firings, resignations, lawsuits and claims that the agency has been weaponized by Democrats to target political opponents. 

Just hours before Ms. Bondi was confirmed, two groups of FBI agents filed separate lawsuits against the department, seeking to block the public identification of employees who worked on the Jan. 6 investigations. 

Mr. Trump had pledged to clean house at the Justice Department, threatening to fire those involved in the federal legal cases against him. Last week, Mr. Trump fired more than a dozen prosecutors who worked on special counsel Jack Smith’s team that brought criminal charges against him for his handling of classified documents and his actions challenging the results of the 2020 election.

Ms. Bondi last month told lawmakers that if confirmed, she would end the “partisanship, the weaponization,” of the Justice Department.

“America will have one tier of justice for all,” she said.

• Jeff Mordock can be reached at jmordock@washingtontimes.com.