Great summary and I agree those 3 would have been phenomenally better picks. I think there is absolutely 'smoke' wear Gaetz is concerned but even if people believe he's just a victim...the guy practiced law for 2 years and really did nothing in Congress but get McCarthy fired and get on tv. Trump likes him because Trump can control Gaetz and won't worry about Gaetz thinking for himself and just executing orders. The value of that in an AG is debatable but that's my opinion.TheWoodlandsTxAg said:
I voted Trump in the primary, and voted Trump in the general election. I voted Trump in the primary over Desantis because Haley was still in the race by the time the Texas primary came around.
Matt Gaetz is a mediocre pick.
Not because of the lies the Democrat media is spreading about him.
Ron Desantis, Mike Lee, and Ted Cruz have presented in detail on how they plan to go after Soros judges and Soros DAs for conspiracy against rights of crime victims.
All three of them would be much better picks.
Go look it up. They have talked at length about it. Ted Cruz wrote a book about it called Justice Corrupted.
Desantis talked about it during every debate during the primaries.
After law school, Lee clerked for Judge Dee Benson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah from 1997 to 1998, then for Judge (later Supreme Court Justice) Samuel Alito of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1998 to 1999. In 2002, Lee left Sidley and returned to Utah to serve as an assistant U.S. attorney in Salt Lake City, preparing briefs and arguing cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He served as general counsel to Utah Governor Jon M. Huntsman Jr. from 2005 to 2006. From 2006 to 2007, Lee again clerked for Alito, who had recently been appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
After law school, Cruz served as a law clerk for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1995 to 1996, and then for Chief Justice William Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1996 to 1997.
After Bush took office, Cruz served as an associate deputy attorney general in the United States Department of Justice and as the director of policy planning at the Federal Trade Commission.
In 2003, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott appointed Cruz to be the solicitor general of Texas. The office was established in 1999 to handle appeals involving the Texas state government, but Abbott hired Cruz with the idea that Cruz would take a "leadership role in the United States in articulating a vision of strict constructionism". As Texas solicitor general, Cruz argued before the U.S. Supreme Court nine times, winning five cases and losing four. He authored 70 U.S. Supreme Court briefs and presented 34 appellate oral arguments. His nine appearances before the Supreme Court are the most by any practicing lawyer in Texas or current member of Congress.Cruz has said, "We ended up year after year arguing some of the biggest cases in the country. There was a degree of serendipity in that, but there was also a concerted effort to seek out and lead conservative fights."
In the landmark case District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz drafted the amicus brief signed by the attorneys general of 31 states arguing that the Washington, D.C. handgun ban should be struck down as infringing upon the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. He also presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Cruz successfully defended the constitutionality of the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 54 in Van Orden v. Perry.
In 2004, Cruz was involved in the high-profile case surrounding a challenge to the constitutionality of public schools' requiring students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance (including the words "under God", legally a part of the Pledge since 1954), Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow. He wrote a brief on behalf of all 50 states that argued that the plaintiff, a non-custodial parent, did not have standing to file suit on his daughter's behalf. The Supreme Court upheld the position of Cruz's brief.
Cruz served as lead counsel for the state and successfully defended the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in state and federal district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, which was decided 54 in his favor in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry.
In Medelln v. Texas, Cruz successfully defended Texas against an attempt to reopen the cases of 51 Mexican nationals, all of whom were convicted of murder in the United States and on death row. With the support of the George W. Bush administration, the petitioners argued that the United States had violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations by failing to notify the convicted nationals of their opportunity to receive legal aid from the Mexican consulate. They based their case on a decision of the International Court of Justice in the Avena case, which ruled that by failing to allow access to the Mexican consulate, the United States had breached its obligations under the convention. Texas won the case in a 63 decision, the Supreme Court holding that ICJ decisions were not binding in domestic law and that the President had no power to enforce them.
In 2008 American Lawyer magazine named Cruz one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America, and The National Law Journal named him one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America. In 2010 Texas Lawyer named him one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century.
Desantis mast been the most effective governor in modern US history, and has actually removed 2 Soros DAs from office already.
https://mrc.org/sorosdocuments
https://cdn.mrc.org/static/pdfuploads/Soros+Report_FINAL_PAGES.pdf-1723215421233.pdf
https://capitalresearch.org/article/living-room-pundits-updated-guide-to-soros-district-attorneys/
The AG pick should have been Desantis, Cruz, or Lee.
RFK is great. He helped Trump win. Maybe Trump wins anyway, but RFK helped for sure. He's in the right spot and you know Trump will can him at the first sign of going against Trump.Phatbob said:
I think RFK jr should not be anywhere near this administration. His advocacy for Universal Healthcare and abortion should have made him a non-starter, if for no other reason than as an indicator of bad judgement. I think it will be an obvious misstep given a few years.
Muy said:
No idea; nobody has even started yet.
DeSantis would have been a tough pull but he was the best choice. Need Cruz and Lee in the Senate on Judiciary. As long as we are looking that direction though you might as well put Hawley on the list. Chip Roy would have been nails. A few others from the House Judiciary Committee.TheWoodlandsTxAg said:
I voted Trump in the primary, and voted Trump in the general election. I voted Trump in the primary over Desantis because Haley was still in the race by the time the Texas primary came around.
Matt Gaetz is a mediocre pick.
Not because of the lies the Democrat media is spreading about him.
Ron Desantis, Mike Lee, and Ted Cruz have presented in detail on how they plan to go after Soros judges and Soros DAs for conspiracy against rights of crime victims.
All three of them would be much better picks.
Go look it up. They have talked at length about it. Ted Cruz wrote a book about it called Justice Corrupted.
Desantis talked about it during every debate during the primaries.
After law school, Lee clerked for Judge Dee Benson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah from 1997 to 1998, then for Judge (later Supreme Court Justice) Samuel Alito of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1998 to 1999. In 2002, Lee left Sidley and returned to Utah to serve as an assistant U.S. attorney in Salt Lake City, preparing briefs and arguing cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He served as general counsel to Utah Governor Jon M. Huntsman Jr. from 2005 to 2006. From 2006 to 2007, Lee again clerked for Alito, who had recently been appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
After law school, Cruz served as a law clerk for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1995 to 1996, and then for Chief Justice William Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1996 to 1997.
After Bush took office, Cruz served as an associate deputy attorney general in the United States Department of Justice and as the director of policy planning at the Federal Trade Commission.
In 2003, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott appointed Cruz to be the solicitor general of Texas. The office was established in 1999 to handle appeals involving the Texas state government, but Abbott hired Cruz with the idea that Cruz would take a "leadership role in the United States in articulating a vision of strict constructionism". As Texas solicitor general, Cruz argued before the U.S. Supreme Court nine times, winning five cases and losing four. He authored 70 U.S. Supreme Court briefs and presented 34 appellate oral arguments. His nine appearances before the Supreme Court are the most by any practicing lawyer in Texas or current member of Congress.Cruz has said, "We ended up year after year arguing some of the biggest cases in the country. There was a degree of serendipity in that, but there was also a concerted effort to seek out and lead conservative fights."
In the landmark case District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz drafted the amicus brief signed by the attorneys general of 31 states arguing that the Washington, D.C. handgun ban should be struck down as infringing upon the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. He also presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Cruz successfully defended the constitutionality of the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 54 in Van Orden v. Perry.
In 2004, Cruz was involved in the high-profile case surrounding a challenge to the constitutionality of public schools' requiring students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance (including the words "under God", legally a part of the Pledge since 1954), Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow. He wrote a brief on behalf of all 50 states that argued that the plaintiff, a non-custodial parent, did not have standing to file suit on his daughter's behalf. The Supreme Court upheld the position of Cruz's brief.
Cruz served as lead counsel for the state and successfully defended the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in state and federal district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, which was decided 54 in his favor in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry.
In Medelln v. Texas, Cruz successfully defended Texas against an attempt to reopen the cases of 51 Mexican nationals, all of whom were convicted of murder in the United States and on death row. With the support of the George W. Bush administration, the petitioners argued that the United States had violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations by failing to notify the convicted nationals of their opportunity to receive legal aid from the Mexican consulate. They based their case on a decision of the International Court of Justice in the Avena case, which ruled that by failing to allow access to the Mexican consulate, the United States had breached its obligations under the convention. Texas won the case in a 63 decision, the Supreme Court holding that ICJ decisions were not binding in domestic law and that the President had no power to enforce them.
In 2008 American Lawyer magazine named Cruz one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America, and The National Law Journal named him one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America. In 2010 Texas Lawyer named him one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century.
Desantis mast been the most effective governor in modern US history, and has actually removed 2 Soros DAs from office already.
https://mrc.org/sorosdocuments
https://cdn.mrc.org/static/pdfuploads/Soros+Report_FINAL_PAGES.pdf-1723215421233.pdf
https://capitalresearch.org/article/living-room-pundits-updated-guide-to-soros-district-attorneys/
The AG pick should have been Desantis, Cruz, or Lee.
Within a year Musk is going to want to focus on being President of Mars.infinity ag said:
How long will Musk hang around the administration? I don't think Trump will want him beyond the DOGE job.
First of all, thank you for this detailed well-reasoned response.TheWoodlandsTxAg said:
I voted Trump in the primary, and voted Trump in the general election. I voted Trump in the primary over Desantis because Haley was still in the race by the time the Texas primary came around.
Matt Gaetz is a mediocre pick.
Not because of the lies the Democrat media is spreading about him.
Ron Desantis, Mike Lee, and Ted Cruz have presented in detail on how they plan to go after Soros judges and Soros DAs for conspiracy against rights of crime victims.
All three of them would be much better picks.
Go look it up. They have talked at length about it. Ted Cruz wrote a book about it called Justice Corrupted.
Desantis talked about it during every debate during the primaries.
After law school, Lee clerked for Judge Dee Benson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah from 1997 to 1998, then for Judge (later Supreme Court Justice) Samuel Alito of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1998 to 1999. In 2002, Lee left Sidley and returned to Utah to serve as an assistant U.S. attorney in Salt Lake City, preparing briefs and arguing cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He served as general counsel to Utah Governor Jon M. Huntsman Jr. from 2005 to 2006. From 2006 to 2007, Lee again clerked for Alito, who had recently been appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
After law school, Cruz served as a law clerk for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1995 to 1996, and then for Chief Justice William Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1996 to 1997.
After Bush took office, Cruz served as an associate deputy attorney general in the United States Department of Justice and as the director of policy planning at the Federal Trade Commission.
In 2003, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott appointed Cruz to be the solicitor general of Texas. The office was established in 1999 to handle appeals involving the Texas state government, but Abbott hired Cruz with the idea that Cruz would take a "leadership role in the United States in articulating a vision of strict constructionism". As Texas solicitor general, Cruz argued before the U.S. Supreme Court nine times, winning five cases and losing four. He authored 70 U.S. Supreme Court briefs and presented 34 appellate oral arguments. His nine appearances before the Supreme Court are the most by any practicing lawyer in Texas or current member of Congress.Cruz has said, "We ended up year after year arguing some of the biggest cases in the country. There was a degree of serendipity in that, but there was also a concerted effort to seek out and lead conservative fights."
In the landmark case District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz drafted the amicus brief signed by the attorneys general of 31 states arguing that the Washington, D.C. handgun ban should be struck down as infringing upon the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. He also presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Cruz successfully defended the constitutionality of the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 54 in Van Orden v. Perry.
In 2004, Cruz was involved in the high-profile case surrounding a challenge to the constitutionality of public schools' requiring students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance (including the words "under God", legally a part of the Pledge since 1954), Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow. He wrote a brief on behalf of all 50 states that argued that the plaintiff, a non-custodial parent, did not have standing to file suit on his daughter's behalf. The Supreme Court upheld the position of Cruz's brief.
Cruz served as lead counsel for the state and successfully defended the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in state and federal district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, which was decided 54 in his favor in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry.
In Medelln v. Texas, Cruz successfully defended Texas against an attempt to reopen the cases of 51 Mexican nationals, all of whom were convicted of murder in the United States and on death row. With the support of the George W. Bush administration, the petitioners argued that the United States had violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations by failing to notify the convicted nationals of their opportunity to receive legal aid from the Mexican consulate. They based their case on a decision of the International Court of Justice in the Avena case, which ruled that by failing to allow access to the Mexican consulate, the United States had breached its obligations under the convention. Texas won the case in a 63 decision, the Supreme Court holding that ICJ decisions were not binding in domestic law and that the President had no power to enforce them.
In 2008 American Lawyer magazine named Cruz one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America, and The National Law Journal named him one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America. In 2010 Texas Lawyer named him one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century.
Desantis mast been the most effective governor in modern US history, and has actually removed 2 Soros DAs from office already.
https://mrc.org/sorosdocuments
https://cdn.mrc.org/static/pdfuploads/Soros+Report_FINAL_PAGES.pdf-1723215421233.pdf
https://capitalresearch.org/article/living-room-pundits-updated-guide-to-soros-district-attorneys/
The AG pick should have been Desantis, Cruz, or Lee.
Do you think AG is like the Supreme Allied Commander or something? There are plenty of opportunities to delegate.Deputy Travis Junior said:
Gaetz sucks. He doesn't have the chops for the task in front of him. AG needs to be wicked smart, perfectly organized, and understand how the bureaucracy works do that he can fix it. I've seen no indication that he is any of these.
SunrayAg said:
I don't get the conservative love fest with RFK jr and Tulsi. They are both liberal democrats.
I'm glad they switched sides and helped Trump get elected… but their beliefs and positions are not aligned with mine. RFK jr is preaching straight from the enviro-whacko playbook, but because he supported Trump we are supposed to start agreeing with him?
Absolute dream scenario. Would love it. The Senate would be perfect for Gaetz, and Desantis was basically born for the job of AG of the United States. Mike Lee and Ted Cruz would also be excellent as well if Gaetz cannot get in either through the Senate or recess appointments.aggie93 said:DeSantis would have been a tough pull but he was the best choice. Need Cruz and Lee in the Senate on Judiciary. As long as we are looking that direction though you might as well put Hawley on the list. Chip Roy would have been nails. A few others from the House Judiciary Committee.TheWoodlandsTxAg said:
I voted Trump in the primary, and voted Trump in the general election. I voted Trump in the primary over Desantis because Haley was still in the race by the time the Texas primary came around.
Matt Gaetz is a mediocre pick.
Not because of the lies the Democrat media is spreading about him.
Ron Desantis, Mike Lee, and Ted Cruz have presented in detail on how they plan to go after Soros judges and Soros DAs for conspiracy against rights of crime victims.
All three of them would be much better picks.
Go look it up. They have talked at length about it. Ted Cruz wrote a book about it called Justice Corrupted.
Desantis talked about it during every debate during the primaries.
After law school, Lee clerked for Judge Dee Benson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah from 1997 to 1998, then for Judge (later Supreme Court Justice) Samuel Alito of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1998 to 1999. In 2002, Lee left Sidley and returned to Utah to serve as an assistant U.S. attorney in Salt Lake City, preparing briefs and arguing cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He served as general counsel to Utah Governor Jon M. Huntsman Jr. from 2005 to 2006. From 2006 to 2007, Lee again clerked for Alito, who had recently been appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
After law school, Cruz served as a law clerk for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1995 to 1996, and then for Chief Justice William Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1996 to 1997.
After Bush took office, Cruz served as an associate deputy attorney general in the United States Department of Justice and as the director of policy planning at the Federal Trade Commission.
In 2003, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott appointed Cruz to be the solicitor general of Texas. The office was established in 1999 to handle appeals involving the Texas state government, but Abbott hired Cruz with the idea that Cruz would take a "leadership role in the United States in articulating a vision of strict constructionism". As Texas solicitor general, Cruz argued before the U.S. Supreme Court nine times, winning five cases and losing four. He authored 70 U.S. Supreme Court briefs and presented 34 appellate oral arguments. His nine appearances before the Supreme Court are the most by any practicing lawyer in Texas or current member of Congress.Cruz has said, "We ended up year after year arguing some of the biggest cases in the country. There was a degree of serendipity in that, but there was also a concerted effort to seek out and lead conservative fights."
In the landmark case District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz drafted the amicus brief signed by the attorneys general of 31 states arguing that the Washington, D.C. handgun ban should be struck down as infringing upon the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. He also presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Cruz successfully defended the constitutionality of the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 54 in Van Orden v. Perry.
In 2004, Cruz was involved in the high-profile case surrounding a challenge to the constitutionality of public schools' requiring students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance (including the words "under God", legally a part of the Pledge since 1954), Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow. He wrote a brief on behalf of all 50 states that argued that the plaintiff, a non-custodial parent, did not have standing to file suit on his daughter's behalf. The Supreme Court upheld the position of Cruz's brief.
Cruz served as lead counsel for the state and successfully defended the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in state and federal district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, which was decided 54 in his favor in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry.
In Medelln v. Texas, Cruz successfully defended Texas against an attempt to reopen the cases of 51 Mexican nationals, all of whom were convicted of murder in the United States and on death row. With the support of the George W. Bush administration, the petitioners argued that the United States had violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations by failing to notify the convicted nationals of their opportunity to receive legal aid from the Mexican consulate. They based their case on a decision of the International Court of Justice in the Avena case, which ruled that by failing to allow access to the Mexican consulate, the United States had breached its obligations under the convention. Texas won the case in a 63 decision, the Supreme Court holding that ICJ decisions were not binding in domestic law and that the President had no power to enforce them.
In 2008 American Lawyer magazine named Cruz one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America, and The National Law Journal named him one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America. In 2010 Texas Lawyer named him one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century.
Desantis mast been the most effective governor in modern US history, and has actually removed 2 Soros DAs from office already.
https://mrc.org/sorosdocuments
https://cdn.mrc.org/static/pdfuploads/Soros+Report_FINAL_PAGES.pdf-1723215421233.pdf
https://capitalresearch.org/article/living-room-pundits-updated-guide-to-soros-district-attorneys/
The AG pick should have been Desantis, Cruz, or Lee.
Plenty to like about Gaetz I just don't know how effective he will be and I know it will be a dogfight to get him confirmed. My dream scenario is he gets denied, DeSantis makes him Senator so the folks who just denied him get to live with him for the next couple decades, and Trump appoints DeSantis AG.
Phatbob said:
I think RFK jr should not be anywhere near this administration. His advocacy for Universal Healthcare and abortion should have made him a non-starter, if for no other reason than as an indicator of bad judgement. I think it will be an obvious misstep given a few years.
AggieVictor10 said:
None. They all seem pretty loyal so far.
That's not how this works unfortunately. Look at who is up for re-election among the GOP in the Senate in '26. It's like a GOPe smorgasbord of meh. They got Tim Scott in charge of the GOP Senate fund and along with Thune all of the RINOs will be getting massive cash and they have the name brand and are mostly Safe. Good luck taking them out. I can think of at least 10 GOP Senators that are GOPe and are going to be nearly impossible to remove. Look at someone like Cornyn and figure out how you are really going to take him out next cycle, he's a relatively easy one compared to the rest and I don't see it happening.12thMan9 said:
It appears some of y'all missed the election results from November 5.
To quote lame John McCain: "Elections have consequences."
Every "alleged" Republican Senator who votes against Gaetz immediately puts a bullseye on their back.
We the people just told the establishment to stfu & gtfo.
Compare Gaetz w/ the last 4 Demo rat AG's: Garland, Lynch, Holder, Reno.
We won. Time to stomp a mud hole in the losers.
aggie93 said:DeSantis would have been a tough pull but he was the best choice. Need Cruz and Lee in the Senate on Judiciary. As long as we are looking that direction though you might as well put Hawley on the list. Chip Roy would have been nails. A few o thers from the House Judiciary Committee.TheWoodlandsTxAg said:
I voted Trump in the primary, and voted Trump in the general election. I voted Trump in the primary over Desantis because Haley was still in the race by the time the Texas primary came around.
Matt Gaetz is a mediocre pick.
Not because of the lies the Democrat media is spreading about him.
Ron Desantis, Mike Lee, and Ted Cruz have presented in detail on how they plan to go after Soros judges and Soros DAs for conspiracy against rights of crime victims.
All three of them would be much better picks.
Go look it up. They have talked at length about it. Ted Cruz wrote a book about it called Justice Corrupted.
Desantis talked about it during every debate during the primaries.
After law school, Lee clerked for Judge Dee Benson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah from 1997 to 1998, then for Judge (later Supreme Court Justice) Samuel Alito of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1998 to 1999. In 2002, Lee left Sidley and returned to Utah to serve as an assistant U.S. attorney in Salt Lake City, preparing briefs and arguing cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He served as general counsel to Utah Governor Jon M. Huntsman Jr. from 2005 to 2006. From 2006 to 2007, Lee again clerked for Alito, who had recently been appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
After law school, Cruz served as a law clerk for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1995 to 1996, and then for Chief Justice William Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1996 to 1997.
After Bush took office, Cruz served as an associate deputy attorney general in the United States Department of Justice and as the director of policy planning at the Federal Trade Commission.
In 2003, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott appointed Cruz to be the solicitor general of Texas. The office was established in 1999 to handle appeals involving the Texas state government, but Abbott hired Cruz with the idea that Cruz would take a "leadership role in the United States in articulating a vision of strict constructionism". As Texas solicitor general, Cruz argued before the U.S. Supreme Court nine times, winning five cases and losing four. He authored 70 U.S. Supreme Court briefs and presented 34 appellate oral arguments. His nine appearances before the Supreme Court are the most by any practicing lawyer in Texas or current member of Congress.Cruz has said, "We ended up year after year arguing some of the biggest cases in the country. There was a degree of serendipity in that, but there was also a concerted effort to seek out and lead conservative fights."
In the landmark case District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz drafted the amicus brief signed by the attorneys general of 31 states arguing that the Washington, D.C. handgun ban should be struck down as infringing upon the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. He also presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Cruz successfully defended the constitutionality of the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 54 in Van Orden v. Perry.
In 2004, Cruz was involved in the high-profile case surrounding a challenge to the constitutionality of public schools' requiring students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance (including the words "under God", legally a part of the Pledge since 1954), Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow. He wrote a brief on behalf of all 50 states that argued that the plaintiff, a non-custodial parent, did not have standing to file suit on his daughter's behalf. The Supreme Court upheld the position of Cruz's brief.
Cruz served as lead counsel for the state and successfully defended the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in state and federal district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, which was decided 54 in his favor in League of United Latin American Citizens v. Perry.
In Medelln v. Texas, Cruz successfully defended Texas against an attempt to reopen the cases of 51 Mexican nationals, all of whom were convicted of murder in the United States and on death row. With the support of the George W. Bush administration, the petitioners argued that the United States had violated the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations by failing to notify the convicted nationals of their opportunity to receive legal aid from the Mexican consulate. They based their case on a decision of the International Court of Justice in the Avena case, which ruled that by failing to allow access to the Mexican consulate, the United States had breached its obligations under the convention. Texas won the case in a 63 decision, the Supreme Court holding that ICJ decisions were not binding in domestic law and that the President had no power to enforce them.
In 2008 American Lawyer magazine named Cruz one of the 50 Best Litigators under 45 in America, and The National Law Journal named him one of the 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America. In 2010 Texas Lawyer named him one of the 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century.
Desantis mast been the most effective governor in modern US history, and has actually removed 2 Soros DAs from office already.
https://mrc.org/sorosdocuments
https://cdn.mrc.org/static/pdfuploads/Soros+Report_FINAL_PAGES.pdf-1723215421233.pdf
https://capitalresearch.org/article/living-room-pundits-updated-guide-to-soros-district-attorneys/
The AG pick should have been Desantis, Cruz, or Lee.
Plenty to like about Gaetz I just don't know how effective he will be and I know it will be a dogfight to get him confirmed. My dream scenario is he gets denied, DeSantis makes him Senator so the folks who just denied him get to live with him for the next couple decades, and Trump appoints DeSantis AG.
