Trump's Nominees and the Senate: Attorney General
How to make your voice heard
[Updated 12/23 to reflect new committee members]
The Senate Judiciary Committee: Approves/Rejects the Nomination for Attorney General and will consider the nomination of Ms. Bondi, a former state Attorney General (Florida). Judiciary’s Senators are being told that Bondi will refuse to submit to an FBI background check – the gold standard – to ensure she has no conflicts of interest. Generally, avoiding such checks is how the word “cowardice” is spelled – using the DC spelling, of course.
Keeping in mind the goal of dictators is to scuttle the existing structures society and replace these with their own impulsive, self-serving, rule, the quality of Bondi’s loyalty to Trump raises reasonable questions. Bondi’s role at Justice may be to coordinate with the other Cabinet departments (Homeland, Defense, DNI), which possess the coercive power of the state, and may be intended to use the nascent deportation regime to bring about just one result: dictatorship. Deportation camps are the regime’s Macy’s Holiday Windows and are intended to put a jolly face on the domestic use of the military.
Bondi’s installation positions her to provide the “legal” coordinating role with Defense, DNI and Homeland (a Squad, of all things), to support the use of the government’s coercive capacity to affect Trump’s promise to be a dictator. (It’s only crazy if you don’t believe it.) These legalities, allowing the Deportation regime, are what Justice will need to compose, and is her main brief.
The point for the Senate to consider is: why risk installing someone at Justice who has a loyalty to Trump which supersedes her required loyalty to the Constitution? Why enable the eradication of our military and justice system? Ultimately, it may not be an attempt at dictatorship which drives down Americans’ quality of life, but the protracted effort to recover from it.
Urge these Senate Judiciary Senators to vote “no” on Bondi. (Their contact information is below.)
Consider suggesting this reading, by Timothy Snyder (or one of your own) to the Senators: The Strongman Fantasy:
Senate Judiciary Committee:
Contacting the Senate Judiciary Committee’s senators:
Senator Graham: Contact
Senator Grassley: Contact
Senator Cornyn: Contact
Senator Lee: Contact
Senator Cruz: Contact
Senator Hawley: Contact
Senator Cotton: Contact
Senator Kennedy: Contact
Senator Tillis: Contact
Senator Blackburn: Contact
Senator Schmitt: Contact (New Committee Member)
Senator Britt: Contact (New Committee Member)
Senator Crapo: Contact (New Committee Member)
*This list will be updated as the new Congress takes shape.
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I've been asked why nothing on Kash Patel?
Basically, I think he has less chance than Gaetz had. His track record is not one Senators are looking forward to being saddled with. They're hoping he goes the way of Nominees of long past.
I'll update should things go really wrong.
Its possible.