NYTimes: A ‘Business-Friendly’ Lawyer’s Rise From Lobbyist to Attorney General Pick

“‘The attorney general must first serve the American people and justice,’ said James Tierney, a former Maine attorney general, who also spent nearly two decades as the head of a Columbia University program focusing on the practice of law by state attorneys general, when asked about Ms. Bondi. ‘She can never serve the personal interests of the president or others seeking favors from him.”

Eric Lipton and Kate Kelly, “A ‘Business-Friendly’ Lawyer’s Rise From Lobbyist to Attorney General Pick,” New York Times, Jan. 8, 2025.