{"id":2475,"date":"2024-11-14T15:32:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T15:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/durbin-demands-to-see-the-gaetz-ethics-report\/"},"modified":"2024-11-14T15:32:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T15:32:52","slug":"durbin-demands-to-see-the-gaetz-ethics-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/durbin-demands-to-see-the-gaetz-ethics-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Durbin demands to see the Gaetz Ethics report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Thursday demanded the House Ethics Committee share its pending report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s pick to lead the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am calling on the House Ethics Committee to preserve and share their report and all relevant documentation on Mr. Gaetz with the Senate Judiciary Committee,\u201d Durbin, who is expected to be the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee next year, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He added; \u201cWe cannot allow this valuable information from a bipartisan investigation to be hidden from the American people. Make no mistake: this information could be relevant to the question of Mr. Gaetz\u2019s confirmation as the next Attorney General of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once a member resigns from Congress \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/13\/matt-gaetz-resigns-congress-00189488\" target=\"_blank\">as Gaetz did on Wednesday<\/a> \u2014 the Ethics Committee loses jurisdiction over pending investigations. This means the report likely won\u2019t be formally released, though it could leak.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz\u2019s nomination to the role <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/13\/matt-gaetz-attorney-general-confirmation-doubt-00189382\" target=\"_blank\">stunned Congress on Wednesday,<\/a> as many Republicans cast doubts on his ability to be confirmed by the Senate. Republicans are expected to hold a narrow 53-47 effective majority next Congress as they try to confirm Trump\u2019s Cabinet picks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Thursday demanded the House Ethics Committee share its pending report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s pick to lead the Department of Justice. \u201cI am calling on the House Ethics Committee to preserve and share their report and all relevant documentation on Mr. Gaetz with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}