Even if a nominee didn't have skeletons in the closet, why would one resign before the confirmation vote?
17 sats \ 1 reply \ @Arceris 20h
To allow a replacement to be appointed, or the special election timeline, to begin. Normally the replacement process cannot be started until the seat is vacant.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 OP 19h
This is the reason they gave but I think its the ethics otherwise Waltz would have resigned as well
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That was my thought. At the very least, it seems like he'd wait until Trump formally takes office.
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His ethics report comes out in 2 days… word in the halls its going to be bad… very bad
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Who prepares a congressional ethics report?
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There is a bipartisan ethics committee with an even number of seats between the two parties… both parties put well respected members in this so it doesn't have the extremes.
Gaetz kicked McCartney in part because he refused to get involved in an ethics investigation. Its not the Speaker’s place to interfere and Gatez knew it would be bad.
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That description doesn't inspire confidence in me, since I have nothing but disdain for the uniparty.
It just sounds like a mechanism for the establishment to protect itself from insurgents.
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I'd look into it then and make the decision yourself but last year he refused to continue to voluntarily participate. The guy has a reputation in DC for not only his younger women thing but also how shitty of a person he is. I've seen that and he really is a POS and doesn't care about anyone but himself.
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I won't necessarily dismiss the findings, but I have doubts that someone who plays nice with party leadership would find themselves under investigation.
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12 sats \ 8 replies \ @Cje95 OP 19h
This all started before he was an issue. The probe opened in 2021 when the DOJ launched an investigation. While the DOJ closed the case Congress holds themselves to a higher standard and thus continued the investigation.
If he moves forward with his confirmation based off what I have heard the report can be requested by the Senate (and would be) and made public from there.
But the larger impact of the resignation is that the House Ethics Committee investigation into Gaetz, which was in its final stages, will be effectively dead. The panel will have no jurisdiction to investigate Gaetz since he is no longer a member of Congress, and its findings may never see the light of day — a major boon for Gaetz as he prepares to face an already-skeptical Senate.
Basically, he was two days away from the internal ethics report being released, and now he's not in congress, so the report vanishes.
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Well it doesn't vanish… esp because its pretty much complete. It immediately will be brought up in a Senate confirmation and is a reason why he won't be confirmed
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