Within hours of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s firing Thursday, chatter turned to Sen. Mike Lee as a possible replacement—even as a report this week branded him the Senate GOP caucus’s “most despised” member for his SAVE Act crusade.
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Lee has been in the mix before. After Trump won a second term in 2024, Trump’s team reached out to Lee about taking a role in the administration. His name was floated as a possible nominee for the top spot at the Department of Justice.