Matt Gaetz just resigned, ending House ethics investigation, giving Florida GOP time to fill the seat by January

[highplainsdem]

https://www.notus.org/congress/matt-gaetz-resigns

Rep. Matt Gaetz resigned from his House seat, hours after Donald Trump announced he would nominate the Florida congressman to serve as attorney general.

Speaker Mike Johnson said Gaetz would resign effective immediately. Given the slim margin in the House, Johnson said the resignation would give Republicans an opportunity to run a special election to fill the seat quickly.

“I think out of deference to us, he issued his resignation letter effective immediately, of Congress. That caught us by surprise a little bit. But I asked him what the reasoning was, and he said, ‘well, you can’t have too many absences,’” Johnson said.

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The FBI previously investigated Gaetz for allegedly paying for sex with a 17-year-old girl. Federal prosecutors did not charge Gaetz but he has since been under an ethics investigation in the House. Now that Gaetz will leave the House, the ethics investigation will end.

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[Maru Kitteh]

1. He'll get the full nom.

If you put every R in the senate together, there is not one vertebrae between the lot of them.

[Faux pas]

2. Big deal

his free ride just continues on a higher level

[Prairie Gates]

3. LOL...what a shitshow

I'm not even sure he's the actual nom. They just needed to clean him from the ethics probe, probably for some other position.

The whole thing is a farce.

[allegorical oracle]

4. Despite on-camera blow-back from Repugs, Gaetz seems sure he's got the AG gig. nt

[Irish_Dem]

6. That's how I read it too.

It's a done deal.

[highplainsdem]

8. Trump can adjourn Congress and make recess appointments if they don't confirm his nominees.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219716108

[yaesu]

5. If we had a real AG instead of Mr Rogers neighborhood we wouldn't be in the fucking mess. nt

[Irish_Dem]

7. Gaetz is going to make up fake cases to prosecute.

Garland couldn't even prosecute real ones, some of the worst crimes in US history.

[sop]

9. Maybe Nestor will run for his open seat?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. Mike Johnson says Matt Gaetz has already resigned from Congress

This moots ethics committee investigation

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