The Senate Is Broken And Thom Tillis Embodies All That Is Wrong With It
The United States is now without an Attorney General, leaving the top law enforcement office in the country vacant.
On the heels of Pam Bondi’s unceremonious departure, the stakes to deliver justice could not possibly be higher – particularly as Democrats, betting on a favorable midterm, begin looking for opportunities to reclaim some power over the legal system.
At any time, the Justice Department is one of the most important agencies in the Executive Branch, and under a President Trump, who ran on a platform of ending years of injustice caused by a rigged judiciary and increasingly corrupt justice system, its importance is magnified even more.
This was not a small piece of the President’s campaign pledge – it was a central component. Ending politicization and weaponization are core tenets of the Trump philosophy. They remain as relevant today.
Thus, when a Senator like Thom Tillis, currently still the leader of the Republicans on the Hill and member of the all-important judiciary committee, makes a statement that he will not support anyone for the position who called out the injustices of January 6th, that stands as a great betrayal.
Alas, Tillis did just that, recently whining to Kaitlin Collins on CNN that “For me, the threshold for somebody following Pam Bondi ends the moment I hear they said one thing that excused the events of January the 6th. I’ve been very clear on that.”
Tillis presents himself as a buffoon on television, someone completely out of touch with Trump’s core voters and the mandate that carried him back into the Oval Office in a political landslide victory in 2024.
Tillis now threatens to use January 6th as the barometer for determining whether someone is qualified or not for the vaunted AG position is ridiculous.
In truth, it should go the other way: the only people genuinely qualified for the AG role are the ones who stuck their necks out when the whole world looked the other way and stood for the constitutional rights of American voters who rightly deemed the 2020 elections illegitimate due to voter fraud.
Being able to go against the tide does not make one a crackpot but is the ultimate testimony of great discernment – and good judgment – both absolutely necessary traits for an Attorney General in the Trump age.
To the disappointment of Tillis and his likeminded colleagues, the American people did not want another Bill Barr for AG: they are looking for a reformer who will shake the scales of justice, reverse the wrongs of the last decade, and return democratic accountability to the legal system.
Did Tillis suffer a coma and not live through the last four years of chaos? Does he forget the nightmares of Letitia James, Jack Smith, and Fani Willis, to say nothing of Merick Garland, who shamelessly abused the Biden DOJ and FBI to launch an unprecedented assault on President Trump, going as far as raiding his private residence, and when that failed, using the entire legal system to prosecute him and put him behind bars so that he could not run a third time?
That alone, which was America’s reality under the dark Biden interregnum, would seem to present enough of an argument to take the fate of the justice system seriously. Not so for Tillis.
Nor for his mealy-mouthed Republican peers who appear to suffer from selective memory.
Sure, they recall with vivid detail “the horrors” of January 6th – curiously, they conveniently overlook the unrelenting horrors of the three years following that day, which overshadow that day’s problems by leaps and bounds.
Whatever mayhem occurred on January 6th – not only pales in comparison to the mayhem of the BLM riots that preceded it the following summer – but, more importantly, resemble not so much as a blip on the seismogram in comparison with the massive shockwaves sent across the judicial system and country by the full-scale weaponization of justice against Donald Trump and his countless supporters.
Many Americans, simply for exercising their First Amendment rights, were locked behind bars. Some were even forced into solitary confinement.
Many others were stripped of their human dignity in other ways: years of anxiety and heartache from lengthy legal proceedings, bankrupting many and psychologically torturing many more.
All this happened not in Communist China or Iran or North Korea, but in the United States of America: a country that putatively stands for freedom and has a First Amendment and expressly includes a Due Process and Equal Protection clause, not once, but twice, enshrined in the written document that is its alleged law of the land – the Constitution.
That so many judges, prosecutors, and lawmakers cavalierly swept all this aside – because they were politically traumatized by not so much the protestors who stormed the Capitol on January 6th, but really because of what it all represented: the enduring power of the MAGA movement and America First – goes to show how forgone this country was, and can be again, once the President leaves office for good.
Tillis betrays this country when he makes an issue January 6th, something that is no longer relevant in 2026, other than as a reminder of the work which still needs to be done to course correct the grave injustices inflicted upon this country.
He is wrong to do so, and he had better express some humility and remorse for these terribly vile comments if he does not wish to have his own legacy be tarnished, much as Mike Pence and others before him did, for his cowardice, malice, and stupidity – and for utterly abandoning his higher political duties at a time when this country so desperately needs real leadership.
The post The Senate Is Broken And Thom Tillis Embodies All That Is Wrong With It appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.