Bondi to Sen. Schiff as he was reading the list of ?s she refused to answer. "Do you have a law degree?"

[Botany]

Bondi, "Do you have a law degree?" to Sen. Schiff.

B.A. Stanford honors. (Political Science)

J.D. Harvard honors

Wiki:
After law school, Schiff spent a year as a law clerk for Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. of the United States District Court for the Central District of California.[16] From 1987 to 1993, he was an assistant United States attorney in the Office of the United States Attorney for the Central District of California.

[Ocelot II]

1. What was his answer?

[Botany]

5. He refused to take the bait. She was trying to change the subject from ?s she refused to answer to Schiff.

Adam has been a very good lawyer, a U.S. Attorney, a Congressman, and a U.S. Senator he is
way ahead of her.

[Deuxcents]

6. I think he ignored her and kept on his strategy. A real stupid question from Bondi, I'll add

[PatSeg]

20. Very stupid indeed

Surely she must have known he has a law degree and if not, she came totally unprepared.

[BaronChocula]

35. Unprepared is their approach to everything

Like that military parade
Or that ambulance-chasing substitute U.S. attorney Halligan
Or that FBI director who spread contradictory information on a white nationalist's killing
Or the child molester who was unaware that senior officers were being called to Washington

They don't prepare for anything. They just go by the old republican belief that "all we need is enough white people on our side."

[PatSeg]

39. Their arrogance and hubris has gone to their heads

They seem incapable of seeing how temporary their positions are. Anyone with the slightest awareness of history or even current events would know it won't last. So what are their plans for when it all comes tumbling down?

[BaronChocula]

42. Methinks the benefit of a cult

is that you don't have to think about consequences in the real world in any real kind of way. All you think about is the how to stop the world from persecuting your dear leader and by extension, you. What a sad way to live.

[PatSeg]

47. That's a good point

Definitely a very sad way to live.

[Wuddles440]

38. Gestapo Barbie intended that to be...

a disrespectful jab at him to imply that he lacks any qualifications and credibility to interpret the law. In reality, she knows that he's an attorney and former prosecutor. It was simply her pathetic attempt to belittle, marginalize, and discredit him.

[PatSeg]

40. Yes, knowing she is on camera,

it is all performance and no substance.

[Ninga]

2. Bondi.....no control over her mouth...obnoxious, loud, pushy, wrong, dare I say, evil.

[The Blue Flower]

4. Gestapo Barbie

Her mean, insipid face tells the story.

[Walleye]

3. She's a hard case. She got all huffy when one senator said they didn't believe her.

“Are you calling me a liar!!“

[kacekwl]

8. Yes you are a liar. And

do you have a law degree ?

[eppur_se_muova]

10. Well, I'm implying it, but if that's not clear enough for you .... nt

[proud patriot]

32. Why yes we are

[Klarkashton]

7. Punching way up there Blondy. Her Stetson

Law degree, 2000 sq ft linoleum campus. JFC.

[yellow dahlia]

9. She was insipid and unprofessional.

The bottom line is oversight is conducted by our representatives on behalf of the American people.

When she refuses to answer their questions she is refusing to be accountable us.

Our taxes pay her salary.

Her tactic of using opposition research and slurs against Democratic Senators in unbecoming anyone in a position of authority and responsibility in our government.

She and so many others in the regime have no concept of decorum.

[underpants]

11. The disembodied shrill voice of hers "Ooooversight?!?"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20703925

[rurallib]

12. When I heard that I thought

Boy, Bondi, you ought to ask for a refund on yours. How did you ever pass the bar?

[Gaugamela]

13. And here's Bondi's educational record:

Bondi received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in criminal justice from the University of Florida in 1987 and a Juris Doctor from the Stetson University College of Law in 1990. She was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority as an undergraduate student. Bondi was admitted to the Florida Bar on June 24, 1991.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pam_Bondi#Early_life_and_education

[Botany]

15. Not quite the same as Stanford, Harvard Law, clerk for a judge on the federal bench, assistant U.S. attorney

Central California, U.S. Attorney, House of Representatives, Chair House Judiciary Committee, led the
successful impeachment of Donald Trump, awesome closing argument (Senate Republicans let
him off), U.S. Senator, Senate oversight committee, likes dogs, great family, and adopted a young
African American young man.

Schiff did not take the bait from Pam 25K from Trump Bondi.

[LisaM]

30. There's a Stetson University?

That doesn't even sound like a real place.

[Gaugamela]

31. It's where you go to learn how to swagger and wear a big hat.

[sop]

37. It's not a bad law school, ranked #99 in Best Law Schools by USNWR, considered a tier 3 or 4 law school.

Obviously, it's not in the same category as a tier 1 law school like Harvard or Yale. Top law schools in Florida are U of Fl and U of Miami. Stetson has a lot of part-time law students.

[SunSeeker]

36. Looks from those dates that she didn't pass the bar on the first try.

Most people graduate, study for bar over the summer, take it in the late summer/early fall, and are sworn in by the end of the year they graduated. She wasn't sworn in until June of the following year, suggesting she took the bar exam again in January.

[OnionPatch]

14. Well, they're used to having totally unqualified people

in important positions. So maybe she thought he could have been, say, a pillow salesman or something before. 🤷‍♀️

[Katinfl]

16. How disrespectful. The same should be asked of her.

Typical Florida flunky, but did we expect anything more?

[otchmoson]

23. Agree, and . . .

maybe the University of Florida should investigate the authenticity of her law degree. If I were faculty/staff at U/F law, I would be embarrassed that she "represents" the University and its law school.

[Katinfl]

34. I tink she got her law degree from Stetson in FL.

She actually asked Adam Schiff if HE has a law dergree. What a joke! He went to prestigious schools and I read somewhere on DU that Stetson is ranked #99 for law degrees. I could be wrong, though. Whatever, we is nothing but a blonde bimbo………always was, always will be.

[nilram]

17. I thought it was particularly ridiculous

to not know the background of one of the leading Dems in the Senate.

[Botany]

19. Being a U.S. Attorney is not a walk off the street and fill out an application type of job.

Bondi was well aware of Adam’s background she was just trying to change the subject of
Schiff’s line of questioning.

[nilram]

22. Being Trump's US Attorney General mainly involves a loyalty pledge.

But whether a distraction or ignorance, it's a distraction that makes her look like (even more of) an idiot.

[Botany]

24. Trump owns her and has since 2013 when he paid her 25 K to not investigate Trump U. as A.G. for Florida

Trump is way mobbed up. He needs dirty people to function and has since Roy Cohn taught him how
to be a professional shit.

[lastlib]

28. ...and having nice boobs.......

No, I'm not sexist, the Crime Minister sets the qualifications.

[pacalo]

43. Perhaps because of her snarkiness, people may look up Schiff's credentials for themselves.

A sufficiently qualified U.S. Attorney General would have realized that. She just comes across as a 'wise guy' cheap blonde.

Tonight Jen Psaki talked about Bondi's notebook, that some sharp-eyed photographers caught shots of her notebook as she leafed through it frequently. It turns out that she had written down insults about the Democratic senators.

[Joinfortmill]

18. I never say this about anyone, but she is a c*nt.

[otchmoson]

21. A petty point

I just looked Bondi up on Wiki. The picture they used led me to this: she better get with the Botox, or she's going to be by-passed by younger, pretty know-nothings. Nothing lasts forever, Pam.

[BigmanPigman]

25. I had to stop watching or else

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my tablet would end up getting thrown into my wall. They should have charged her with contempt. What an obnoxious, disgusting monster.

Has her 50 pound weight loss effected her brain functions? I know, I know, "What brains?".

[bmichaelh]

26. Opposition Research

As was mentioned on Deadline, she took opposition research and attacked all of the Democratic senators personally.

Someone took a picture of her research during the hearing.

https://www.rawstory.com/pam-bondi-sheldon-whitehouse/

[louis-t]

29. The question about taking money from anyone associated with Epstein

should always be "I don't know, why don't you release the files so we can find out?"

[Irish_Dem]

27. At one of the recent social events with Trump, Bondi looked drunk.

I think she is another one with a substance abuse problem.

[Beartracks]

33. At a bare minimum, drunk with power. n/t

[Irish_Dem]

45. That too.

[pacalo]

44. She kept rubbing her nose with her forefinger, I noticed.

I was thinking cocaine.

[Irish_Dem]

46. Was she sniffing too? Another sign.

Maybe what I saw in that picture her at a sporting event was a cocaine high.

[pat_k]

41. I was happy he didn't take the bait.

I didn't know Schiff's background, but my first thought was "of course he as an f-ing law degree you moron."

The second thought was, even if he didn't have a law degree, he has a far superior grasp of the essential legal concepts that apply to the execution of your job as Attorney General you corrupt MAGA shill.

Bondi, you have no ideology. Your hysterical lies are a product of your fear. Fear of being exposed as a creature of greed who has no principles and is in the game for the spoils that will be shoveled your way.

Like all the other boot lickers, you are in this for one thing -- to steal.

All this chaos, threat of troops in our streets, daily outrages, are all just a cover for a magnitude of corruption and theft that I think we have barely scratched the surface of.

As Oliver Kornetzke points out, it is all about amassing power as a means to steal more...

...Trump, a failed businessman and serial conman, didn’t stumble into power because he had a vision. He stumbled into it like a raccoon into a jewelry store: overwhelmed, opportunistic, and desperate to grab everything shiny before the lights come on. He brought with him a gang of similarly hollow, self-serving goons—parasites in flag pins—who recognized that brute force and spectacle could serve as a perfect cover for mass-scale corruption. All they needed was enough boots, enough masks, and enough Americans too scared or too exhausted to resist...

That’s what ICE is now—a terror squad designed not just to punish the “other,” but to frighten the rest into submission. They don’t need to knock on your door. They just need you to see what happens when they knock on hers. They want you disoriented, enraged, heartbroken, and above all—silent.

https://thehobbledehoy.com/tag/oliver-kornetzke/

What we need more than anything are intrepid journalists with integrity to quit chasing the daily outrages and dive into the government contracts being handed to tech bros, and other outright acts of theft.

Things like the involvement of the so far unnamed tech companies who will be processing new Medicare pre-authorizations and denying Medicare claims under the WISeR six state pilot, with a percentage of the "savings" of denied claims being shoveled into these unnamed tech company pockets.

Here, less than two months before this "program" is set to go into effect on 1/1/25, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare are oblivious as the the identities of these unnamed "tech company" beneficiaries?!?

Bullshit.

And this sort of thing is just scratching the surface. I believe they are engaged in a level of corruption that is so far beyond what we can imagine.

Marcos level shit -- emptying treasury funds into their own pockets.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

48. MaddowBlog-AG Pam Bondi refused to answer key questions, and Adam Schiff kept the receipts

Over several hours, the attorney general was unprofessional and partisan, but most importantly, she was evasive, rejecting important lines of inquiry.

AG Pam Bondi was unprofessional and partisan, but most importantly, she was evasive, refusing to answer good questions she didn’t like.

Fortunately, Adam Schiff kept the receipts. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-10-08T13:48:39.368Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/ag-pam-bondi-refused-answer-key-questions-adam-schiff-kept-receipts-rcna236327

The U.S. attorney general has traditionally been known as “the people’s lawyer.” Attorney General Pam Bondi, however, has gone out of her way to position herself as Donald Trump’s lawyer......

But it was the same California senator who also used the opportunity to share some of the receipts he’d collected over the course of the proceedings. As The New Republic noted:

Democratic Senator Adam Schiff of California took Attorney General Pam Bondi to task Tuesday for her incessant deflections and evasions throughout a Senate judiciary hearing. Bondi had verbally attacked Democratic senators throughout the hearing rather than answer their questions. Schiff was, evidently, keeping track of questions Bondi left unanswered, and he ran through the lengthy (yet inexhaustive) list.

It was arguably the most memorable exchange of the frustrating hearing.

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-10-07T17:29:23.535Z

As Schiff documented, Bondi refused to respond to all kinds of legitimate lines of inquiry, including:

whether the attorney general consulted with career ethics lawyers before approving a $400 million gift from Qatar (a country she was a paid lobbyist for);

what role she played in asking that Trump’s name be flagged in the Jeffrey Epstein files;

whether White House border czar Tom Homan took the $50,000 from undercover FBI agents in the run-up to the 2024 election;

whether career prosecutors found insufficient evidence to charge former FBI Director James Comey;

whether Bondi discussed the Comey indictment with Trump;

how the administration concluded that military strikes against civilians in international waters are legal;

whether Bondi approved the firing of antitrust lawyers who disagreed with the Hewlett Packard merger;

whether she supported a fund for violent insurrectionists who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6;

whether the Justice Department had fired career professionals because they worked on Jan. 6 cases;
and whether DOJ employees should have to abide by court orders.

In effectively all of these instances, the attorney general could’ve offered substantive answers. She instead attacked senators for asking good questions she didn’t like.