
Attorney General Kris Mayes is demanding the Senate disrupt the confirmation process for President Donald Trump’s FBI director nominee, Kash Patel, in a last-ditch effort to prevent his appointment.
Mayes and 19 other Democratic attorneys general sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday outlining their demand: to require Patel to return to the Senate Judiciary Committee for further questioning regarding the recent FBI official firings for their roles in the January 6 investigations.
Patel testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday. The hearing — split into two parts — lasted over five hours.
Mayes claimed in a press release that the ongoing overhaul of the Department of Justice (DOJ) came from Patel, though he has yet to be confirmed to the leadership role and therefore has no authority.
“The Senate has a duty to get real answers from Mr. Patel before moving forward with his confirmation,” said Attorney General Mayes. “Firing career FBI officials for political reasons undermines public safety and weakens our justice system. The American people deserve transparency about what’s happening at the FBI.”
Today, I sent a letter urging the Senate to require Trump’s nominee for FBI Director, to return for further questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Full press release here: https://t.co/LyE1QXIr5l pic.twitter.com/0pMm7PTBDt
— AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes (@AZAGMayes) February 4, 2025
The joint letter claimed Patel would purge the over 6,000 FBI agents and staff tasked to work the prosecutions of the over 1,600 individuals involved in the January 6 Capitol invasion.
“Before a confirmation vote is taken, the United States Senate should know what Mr. Patel plans to do with the list of FBI agents and staff that is currently being compiled. These agents and staff should not be punished just to indulge the President’s personal grudge,” said the attorneys general. “In just two weeks, President Trump has made our country less safe with his attacks on law enforcement and public safety.”
The letter further claimed that a sweeping overhaul of the FBI would risk public safety, stymying efforts such as the Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Forces, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the White Collar Task Force. Rather than honing FBI efforts on criminals, Mayes’ letter claimed a Patel-led FBI would be lax on crime. As justification of this, the joint letter pointed to Trump’s pardons of the Capitol riot participants, characterizing them as “reckless.”
“Such unprecedented mass firings of prosecutors is concerning and dangerous for public safety and will undoubtedly result in numerous criminals going unpunished,” stated the attorneys general. “[W]e must ask you to take action to oppose the [Trump] administration’s attacks on public safety and law enforcement.”
The other attorneys general on the letter represent California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.
Patel is a close ally to Mayes’ longtime foe and now congressman for Arizona, Abe Hamadeh — a fact which didn’t escape the notice of some.
This is the woman who “won” her election against Abe Hamadeh by 280 votes—the same election where the machines conveniently failed on election day, preventing predominantly Republican voters from casting their ballots. That’s the only reason she’s in this position now. Abe and… https://t.co/WCi7QytNkW
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) February 4, 2025
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Democratic members echoed the attorneys general demand letter with a letter of their own.
We have grave concerns with Kash Patel’s nomination, especially given developments during and after his hearing.
Republicans *must* schedule an additional hearing to thoroughly examine serious questions.
Here’s why. A THREAD. pic.twitter.com/3Fzy94ia69
— Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryDems) February 4, 2025
Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) announced on Tuesday that the committee would vote on Patel as early as next week.
Mayes and Hobbs are both undemocratically occupying their offices thanks to the Soros machine. She got her marching orders from the DNC and think she has some kind of valid office to butt into federal process. Obviously those 6000 agents that weren’t actually investigating actual criminals for 4 years are just excess fat that need to be cut from the FBI.
I’ve had smile on face for nearly 3 weeks now
ROFL every time I see the democrats lose it
daily delighted
Hamadeh would do better to very simply explain in 2 sentences or less why 9,000 ballots should have been counted but werent
MAGA is blind to the corrupt and incompetent people they voted for. Lol
We knew EXACTLY who we voted for. We chose conservatism over idiocy and it is working. The legislature needs to impeach her and get her out of office. I her election is still questionable.
Mayes is worried that a Patel-led FBI would be lax on thought crime, tough on actual criminals – like her, maybe?
Mayes and Hobbit share “public enemy no.1” title! Please can they just crawl back into the abyss they came from!
Mayes is now the enemy of the people.
just more whining from the left and potentially guilty persons fearing they will lose their position on the tit. Send in your complaint and let it sit and rot in line just like the ones from the people. If so hot on crime why is there so much up in east LA and nothing is done?
Of course she is protesting. She is afraid that Patel might know something about her and her covert acts. That is the only logical explanation for her opposition to a federal job that has nothing to do with the state.
288 votes is not a mandate. If the provisional ballots were allowed too have been counted
Abe Hamadeh would be AG.
What the DOJ and FBI did under Biden was open and notorious corruption. For the sake of the country it must be fully exposed and the perpetrators prosecuted. Criminal acts cannot be ignored. Could Mayes be worried that something about her is hidden in FBI files if Patel is confirmed and releases them?
DEMS continue to cling to their carefully crafted J6 narrative. If it were a movie, it would be a box-office bomb. Too much evidence against that narrative has surfaced. Recently, reports say the FBI committed more than 5,000 agents to tracking down those grandmas that went into a public building that day and made selfies. Meanwhile, the DEMS were conducting mass importation of some of the world’s worst criminals and trafficking them across the USA. So, of course, AZ’s brilliant legal mind, Krissy, stages another act of willful stupidity. She is the epitome of “unfit for office.”
“Firing career FBI officials for political reasons undermines public safety and weakens our justice system.”
Says the AG who has turned her office into a ludicrous political sideshow.
Both Hobbs and Mayes should have been recalled two years ago. I don’t believe either was fairly elected. I hope the McCainites are happy with the results of their strategy. The rest of us are decidedly not.
“Such unprecedented mass firings of prosecutors is concerning and dangerous for public safety and will undoubtedly result in numerous criminals going unpunished,” stated the attorneys general.
Your thinking about the right to life granny’s that they jailed for lying down on a sidewalk? Or the illegal aliens that are on the catch and release program the Soros administration set up?
Mayes needs to know her role and stay in her lane. She’s not as special as she thinks she is, just like Sandy Cortez.
Mayes has certainly brought new meaning to the initials AG. Instead of Attorney General, it can now be considered Abteilung Gestapo, Department of Secret State Police.
Hey Mayes, please shut the hell up and just go away!
how many 10’s of thousands of hours of Jan 6th video tape were ‘gone missing’ destroyed by the FBI ‘unseen by the general public – for ‘general public review’ FIRST HAND ! something like 46,000 hours of video ; Oh did I press the wrong delete button… ? BS! That those charged were kept in solitary confinement for 2 years! no excuse. IF they are charged, as they were – PRESENT THE EVIDENCE – Oh we lost it because.. ‘you can’t handle the truth’.. hmmm I think I’ve heard that someplace before?