Ex-House speaker’s remarks come amid calls for release of ethics report into sexual misconduct claims against Gaetz
The former Republican House speaker Kevin McCarthy is predicting that Donald Trump’s nomination of Matt Gaetz as attorney general will be rejected by the Republican Senate next year.
Durbin added that the information in the report could be relevant to Gaetz’s confirmation as the next US attorney general. The Republican senator John Cornyn also joined calls for the House ethics committee to release their report on Gaetz on Thursday, saying that he“I don’t want there to be any limitation at all on what the Senate could consider,” Cornyn told reporters, according to Reuters. When asked if that meant he wanted to see the ethics report, he replied: “Absolutely.
Though McCarthy is predicting that Gaetz will not get confirmed as attorney general, there is a mechanism by which Trump could technicallya Senate vote, and make a recess appointment, which is when a president can make an appointment without a vote in the Senate while the upper chamber is in recess. Past presidents have used this method, often as a way to circumvent political divides that would slow nominations.
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