Donald Trump announced Wednesday he will nominate Rep. Matt Gaetz to be the next attorney general, citing the Florida Republican’s focus in Congress “on achieving desperately needed reform at the Department of Justice.”
The confirmation of Gaetz would make the partisan firebrand the nation’s top law enforcement officer, at an agency that oversees the nation’s immigration courts and policies on criminal prosecution for everything from drug trafficking and white-collar crime to civil rights issues such as voting rights.
Gaetz has been a member of the House Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, where he has criticized the alleged politicization of the Justice Department.
