Potential shake-up seen as the fight to “keep Texas red” continues
The current AG, Ken Paxton, intends to “primary” current U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in ‘26.
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Yet another attorney at the Department of Justice has resigned, but this time it’s not to join some cushy, cozy Democrat law firm and attack the Trump administration from the outside. Last Thursday, Aaron Reitz, assistant AG for the DOJ’s Department of Legal Policy, announced he was leaving that job on Blaze TV’s “The Glenn Beck Program,” after turning in his resignation, effective immediately, a day earlier.
As you can see from his post on Wednesday, which includes his letters of resignation, this is a positive move on his part. He’s proud of his work with the Trump administration, and Attorney Pam Bondi must already have been well aware of his plans to leave. “My fight for Law, Order, Justice and the Constitution continues,” he writes. “Thank you, @POTUS and @AGPamBondi for your leadership and the privilege of serving our great nation under you.”
https://x.com/aaron_reitz/status/1932896257716195583
“Duty now calls me to continue [the] fight on a new front,” he writes, though he doesn’t state in the letter what his specific plans are. “After much prayer and careful reflection, I have decided to resign from my position at the Justice Department, effective today, and to return home to Texas. In Texas I will serve you, your Administration, and our America First movement in an even greater capacity.”
Judging from some of the comments on his post by mystified readers, some explanation is in order.
Changes are brewing in Texas, where the Huckabee writers have spent most of our lives. As Reitz went on to say on Thursday, he plans to run for Texas attorney general. The current AG, Ken Paxton, intends to “primary” current U.S. Sen. John Cornyn in ‘26.
Interestingly, before Reitz went to work at the DOJ, he was chief of staff to Texas’ other senator, Ted Cruz. He was also deputy AG for legal strategy for Texas AG...Ken Paxton. Reitz is also a Marine, having been deployed to Afghanistan before becoming a lawyer, and is still a member of the Marine Corps Reserves. Here’s more about him…
https://www.justice.gov/olp/staff-profile/assistant-attorney-office-legal-policy-general-aaron-reitz
One thing Reitz says he’d like to do as Texas AG is is work with President Trump to look into the “blue-state agitators” coming into Texas, the Soros-funded DAs, mayors and nonprofits. In other words, he intends to follow the money. Consequently, those same dark-money people are going to be the ones working most frantically against him and anyone else trying to “out” them.
Whoever the Democrats find to run for the U.S. Senate in ‘26 --- another “Beto”? Colin Allred? --- they’ll be pouring more dark money into that campaign than has ever been seen in any Senate race before. So far, that tactic has proven less than fruitful, and we’ve certainly enjoyed watching all those millions and millions of dollars disappear down a rathole. (That image gives new meaning to the term “dark money.”)
With the GOP’s sharp moving of chess pieces around the board, the left’s plan to “turn Texas blue” --- already working out quite dismally --- is going to get harder.
I love the thought process and strategizing going on in the America First ranks. It builds my faith that SOMEBODY is using their head in Washington.
looks like he needs to work on austin first