{"id":2504,"date":"2024-11-15T17:33:15","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T17:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-former-deputy-ag-praised-his-second-tier-doj-picks-but-offered-no-love-for-matt-gaetz\/"},"modified":"2024-11-15T17:33:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T17:33:15","slug":"trumps-former-deputy-ag-praised-his-second-tier-doj-picks-but-offered-no-love-for-matt-gaetz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trumps-former-deputy-ag-praised-his-second-tier-doj-picks-but-offered-no-love-for-matt-gaetz\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s former deputy AG praised his second-tier DOJ picks \u2014 but offered no love for Matt Gaetz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is offering effusive praise for two of President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2024\/11\/14\/congress\/todd-blanche-deputy-attorney-general-trump-00189746\" target=\"_blank\">choices for leadership roles at the Justice Department<\/a> \u2014 while remaining conspicuously silent about Trump\u2019s plan to nominate former Florida Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/11\/13\/trump-gaetz-attorney-general-justice-department-00189496\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Gaetz as attorney general<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCritics of unfit appointees should applaud when the President picks qualified people with integrity,\u201d Rosenstein <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RodRosenstein\/status\/1857450228263035034\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on X<\/a> Friday. \u201cAs Deputy AG, Todd Blanche and Emil Bove won&#8217;t allow partisanship to sway DOJ prosecutions. The rule of law prevails.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rosenstein, who served as No. 2 at DOJ during Trump\u2019s first term, declined to comment when asked by Blue Light News about Trump\u2019s controversial decision to tap Gaetz as AG and did not explain how Blanche and Bove would be able to overrule their boss.<\/p>\n<p>Gaetz and Blanche require Senate confirmation for their jobs. Bove, whom Trump picked to be principal associate deputy attorney general, would not need Senate approval. Trump also said he wants Bove to serve as DOJ\u2019s acting No. 2 until Blanche is confirmed, but it\u2019s unclear whether federal law permits that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is offering effusive praise for two of President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s choices for leadership roles at the Justice Department \u2014 while remaining conspicuously silent about Trump\u2019s plan to nominate former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general. \u201cCritics of unfit appointees should applaud when the President picks qualified people with [&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-2504","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\/2504","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=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}