Brianna Lyman of the Federalist highlights multiple potential candidates for US attorney general.
President Trump announced Thursday that Pam Bondi would no longer serve as attorney general. Todd Blanche has been appointed interim attorney general. But as the president mulls over who will be Bondi’s permanent replacement, there are several standout candidates who have the willingness to enforce the law as well as the tenacity to take on the Democrats’ lawfare machine.
Several of those potential candidates have also been targeted for political persecution, and they understand how powerful the current leftist legal regime is and why it needs to be cleaned up.
Director of OMB Russ Vought has shown he has the much-needed muscle to fight back against the left without apology. Vought slashed funding for left-wing pet projects like critical race theory indoctrination and publicly told Congress the 1974 Impoundment Control Act is unconstitutional, pointing out it has been used to enable waste, fraud and abuse. Such institutional knowledge is useful in purging the DOJ of waste and abuse in order to focus on the mission. …
… [Brendan] Carr would make a formidable attorney general because he’s already shown he will enforce regulatory law against powerful institutions instead of allowing them to run rampant. As FCC chairman, Carr called out ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel for violating FCC rules by knowingly broadcasting a false claim about Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Carr’s move forced ABC to reconsider the program and temporarily pull it off air. Carr’s willingness to confront media bias and hold people accountable for law breaking qualifies him to help steer the ship at the DOJ. Carr has shown that enforcing rules in a politicized environment requires backbone.
[Theo] Wold spent his career inside the DOJ and state attorney general offices fighting to dismantle the unelected fourth branch of government that has usurped the authority of Congress, the president, and the states. While solicitor general of Idaho, Wold co-signed an amicus brief defending the Second Amendment in the face of California’s restrictive gun control laws. He also supported Idaho’s Fairness in Women’s Sports Act to keep men out of women’s sports.
