Kansas Kid said:
I think Gaetz is the bargaining chip to get through who Trump really wants which is likely one of the three mentioned above (I would bet on Cruz). Pull that nomination in exchange for Dems supporting the next nominee.
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I would like to see Chip Roy primary that ******* Cornyn
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.
Cruz is finally going to be a Committee Chair and will be Senior on 4 major committees in the Senate (Commerce, Rules, Judiciary, and Foreign Relations) and will be Subcommittee Chair on the Constitution on Judiciary. He just got another 6 years and realistically won't ever be President and doesn't want to serve on the SC. I'd be shocked if he left assuming Trump offered, he's set up to be an absolute power in the Senate for the next 2 decades.Kansas Kid said:
I think Gaetz is the bargaining chip to get through who Trump really wants which is likely one of the three mentioned above (I would bet on Cruz). Pull that nomination in exchange for Dems supporting the next nominee.
It also avoided ethics report on Gaetz from being disclosed which may or may not have damning evidence.
aTmAg said: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.
The problem we have had with our AGs is that they haven't had the balls to do what is necessary. Gaetz obviously does.
You want to take our two best sitting senators? Nah, I like the picks he has much better.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 has 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.
I like that he's thinking outside the box and bringing in some flair, but naming Dr. Dre for Surgeon General might be taking it too far.Quote:
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