Dick Durbin Demands Matt Gaetz House Ethics Report Be Made Available for Senate AG Confirmation Hearings

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Trump suggested he could take such an action during his first term in office.
51% : Trump announced Gaetz as his pick to lead the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday afternoon, calling the Florida Republican "a deeply gifted and tenacious attorney" who would "focus on achieving desperately needed reform at the Department of Justice."
50% : "Trump has shown he understands a cardinal rule of strong man dominance: constantly force your allies to defend the indefensible and to make ever greater concessions they once would have considered beyond the pale," said Ronald Brownstein, senior editor for The Atlantic.
43% : In turn for doing so, Trump can nominate someone different to head the DOJ, a person whom the Senate might not have agreed to before, but compared to Gaetz, would be a preferable option.
28% : Given the conservative bloc of justices' recent views on presidential immunity, it's very likely the court would say that only impeachment of the president could restrict or punish Trump from acting in this manner.
27% : However, due to his immediate resignation upon being nominated by Trump, House norms dictate that his report will no longer be released, as he is no longer a member of that congressional chamber subject to its jurisdiction.
27% : "However, if Trump is serious about Gaetz becoming Attorney General, he could try to invoke constitutional powers to make it happen, regardless of whether Senate Republicans agree with him or not.
25% : Like Gaetz, Trump, too, has been investigated by the DOJ, with two separate inquiries (one focused on his retaining classified documents after leaving the White House in 2021, the other regarding his efforts to illegally overturn the 2020 election) resulting in indictments against him.
20% : Trump has also indicated a desire to weaponize the DOJ to go after his political opponents.
15% : Some political observers have suggested that Gaetz's nomination by Trump isn't a serious one -- that Trump, in selecting Gaetz to be Attorney General, gave him a "respectable" way to resign from office, thereby possibly preventing his ethics report from being made public.

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