The release of the House Ethics Committee’s findings on Matt Gaetz is being considered. It is anticipated that Comcast will announce a cable network spinoff. Additionally, Susan Smith, who gained notoriety for the murder of her boys thirty years ago, is eligible for parole.
What to know today is as follows.
House Ethics Committee weighs whether to release report about its Matt Gaetz investigation
This afternoon, the House Ethics Committee will convene to decide whether to release a report on its investigation of former Representative Matt Gaetz, the man President-elect Donald Trump selected to lead the Justice Department.
For the past three years, the bipartisan committee has been looking into allegations that Gaetz, who represented Florida, used illegal drugs and engaged in sexual misconduct. It has also looked into claims that he accepted inappropriate gifts, gave special favors to people with whom he had personal relationships, and obstructed the investigation. Gaetz has refuted every accusation.
The committee can choose from a number of choices. It could decide whether or not to make the report available to the public. It might send it on to the Senate. Or it might decide to do nothing.
A number of Senate Democrats and Republicans have stated that they would like to see the House report prior to Gaetz’s confirmation hearing before the Judiciary Committee. The committee’s senior Democrat, Rep. Susan Wild, stated that the report should be submitted to the Senate at the very least and made publicly available.
According to a lawyer for two women who spoke before the committee behind closed doors earlier this year, accusing Gaetz of repeatedly paying them for sex, his clients are unwilling to appear in public. Rather than having to repeat the same accusations, the ladies hope the committee will make the probe public, according to lawyer Joel Leppard.
According to a source, a hacker obtained a file that contained the two women’s sworn depositions. Whether any of the compromised data had been released to the public was not immediately apparent.
Meanwhile, Trump ally House Speaker Mike Johnson opposes the report’s release. Johnson contends that the Ethics Committee can only hear cases involving active members of Congress. Following his appointment as Trump’s choice for attorney general, Gaetz resigned from his position last week.
However, the Ethics Committee has previously released reports following the resignation of a member of Congress.Go here to read the entire story.
Trump is sticking to his decision in the face of criticism and discussion.On Gaetz’s behalf, he has personally called Republican senators to solicit their support. Additionally, a number of Republican senators said that Gaetz himself had called them to discuss the nomination. According to a Trump transition team official, they are aware that Gaetz is by far the most difficult Cabinet confirmation they will have to battle for.
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A parole board will consider today whether Susan Smith is fit to re-enter society 30 years after the South Carolina woman shocked the nation by admitting to killing her two sons. Smith s case drew national media attention in 1994, when she claimed she was carjacked by a Black man and that the man drove away with her sons, 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex. The boys disappearance sparked a nine-day manhunt, only for Smith to confess to killing her sons by letting her car roll into a nearby lake with the boys inside, watching as they drowned.
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