Some of the conservative movement’s biggest names endorsed Matt Gaetz to become America’s next attorney general on Tuesday, giving the Florida congressman a major boost following his nomination to the position last week.
“Under the tenure of Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has become a rabidly partisan, politically weaponized agency used by the president to wage lawfare against his political opponents. The agency is urgently in need of reform,” the Tuesday statement signed by dozens of prominent conservative leaders reads. “We believe Matt Gaetz can and will do a superb job of returning the agency to its proper role of impartially representing the American justice system.”
In their statement “strongly support[ing]” Gaetz’s nomination and “urg[ing]” the Senate to “swift[ly]” confirm him as attorney general, the aforementioned conservative leaders highlighted how the Florida Republican “has routinely been aggressive and prepared for his constitutional role in Congress, overseeing the Department of Justice from his seat on the House Judiciary Committee.” They further praised Gaetz for using his position to conduct proper oversight of the DOJ and noted that he “has been the most active member of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, appearing at more depositions and transcribed interviews, and in more hearings, than any other member.”