Yes, we know Donald Trump plans to skip public background checks on his nominees and we know he’ll try to appoint them no matter what is found. We also know, especially with potential Attorney General Matt Gaetz, there is almost certainly a lot to be found.
But that doesn’t mean everything has to remain hidden about Trump’s picks for vitally important institutions.
MSNBC’s Frank Figliuzzi made an excellent case for President Biden to have the FBI conduct background checks now. Figliuzzi is no bleedhing-heart liberal but a lawyer with a long history of espionage investigations at the FBI. He laid out the legal justification for Biden to have background checks conducted on the Trump picks, even if they don’t cooperate. He also laid out a legal case for the Senate Judiciary Committee to do the same, not just for Gaetz but also Trump’s pick to head the FBI and “all other DOJ nominees and non-judicial nominees.”
More importantly, Figliuzzi makes the moral and political case.
More from his MSNBC column:
