
CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig said on Wednesday that former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) cannot block the pending release of a House Ethics Committee investigatory report. Gaetz was nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to be the next attorney general and resigned from Congress before dropping his bid. The Florida firebrand’s alleged entanglement in a sprawling series of schemes and crimes — including accusations about illegal drug use, bribes, and allegations he sexually trafficked a 17-year-old girl — brought a lot of noise to his nomination path, already rocky because...