Matt Gaetz has bashed Senate Republicans for years. To be Trump’s AG, he’ll need their votes.
Before he can become Donald Trump’s attorney general, former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) will need to face off with some potentially less-than-friendly faces to receive confirmation: Republican senators he’s previously antagonized. With a 53-seat majority, the Senate GOP can only
Lawyer who argued for Trump’s immunity at Supreme Court is tapped for solicitor general
Dean John Sauer, the lawyer whose arguments led to a Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity that waylaid Donald Trump’s prosecution on charges of attempting to subvert the 2020 presidential election, is Trump’s pick to be solicitor general in his
Ethics panel to meet as pressure builds for Gaetz report release
Members of a secretive panel overseeing a long-running investigation into Matt Gaetz are set to privately meet on Friday, according to three people familiar with the matter. The House Ethics Committee meeting was scheduled before Gaetz (R-Fla.) resigned from Congress
Trump picks his New York hush money defense lawyers for top spots at DOJ
President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday tapped the lawyers who represented him in the New York hush money criminal trial for the No. 2 and No. 3 spots at the Department of Justice. Todd Blanche, a former federal prosecutor who defended
Trump selects Jay Clayton, a business-friendly former regulator, as top federal prosecutor in Manhattan
President-elect Donald Trump has picked Jay Clayton, a longtime corporate lawyer and former Wall Street regulator, to be the U.S. attorney overseeing Manhattan. Clayton served as the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission during Trump’s first term but has