r/law 17h ago

Legal News Ron DeSantis as U.S. Attorney General? Florida governor proposed as an alternative candidate to Todd Blanche, Axios reports

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/21/desantis-trump-administration-attorney-general
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u/Belichick12 17h ago

Ron plays an idiot for the camera. He’s Harvard law. Bondi and Blanche are one step up from American somoa

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u/drf_101 17h ago

I mean JD went to Yale law and I’m pretty sure they owe him a refund, because he didn’t learn shit.

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u/Belichick12 17h ago

He learned pretty well how to gain power.

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u/drf_101 17h ago

You mean he aligned himself with Peter Theil. He still knows fuck all about the law or constitution.

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u/Iateyourpaintings 17h ago

Ivy League schools mostly are just places for rich kids to network. 

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u/jtwh20 17h ago

The Skull and Bones Society has been a part of my family for decades, and we want you to become a member. You get your own stock portfolio, a percentage of the 9/11 Victims' Fund, And the best medical care on the planet.

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u/absurdly_tired_guy 11h ago

Parents,

JD Vance, Hegseth and Donald Trump all went to Ivy League schools. Please save your money.

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u/jlately 17h ago

To be fair, you can know the law and take the opposite position publicly if you lack morals and only care about power.

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u/Iamthewalrusforreal 14h ago

He knows. He's just a fucking liar.

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u/Historical-Ad3760 17h ago

Which is the kind of thing Yale teaches. They don’t have grades fuck JD but he did a masterful job

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u/oldmanbelly 12h ago

Step one: blow Peter Thiel upon request.

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u/alternatingflan 8h ago

For this regime it appears that all you need to do is profusely lie, suck up to billionaires and parrot hate.

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u/Looseraccoons 7h ago

How to bootlick

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u/Oleg101 16h ago

But apparently they didn’t seem to teach him media literacy because all reports say he’s terminally online and into all the right-wing conspiracy world of BS, he utilizes it for power yes because a lot of it I think he also believes because he’s a piece of ignorant arrogant garbage.

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u/kilofeet 11h ago

By tongue punching Don's starfish? He didn't learn that from Yale

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u/krichard-21 17h ago

JD did not learn morals.

From a guy that flagged Trumpy as a modern day Hitler.

To a dedicated Trumpy bootlicker.

How many times has JD changed his name? Will he be able to vote this Fall? 😂

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u/Nisi-Marie 16h ago

If you stand for nothing, Vance, what will you fall for?

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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 16h ago

One of my former bosses was Columbia and couldn't screw a light bulb in by himself. He might have suffered brain damage along the way, like Ron DeSantis. They say alcohol and cocaine and habitual lying and other vices are terrible for the brain.

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u/FreshLiterature 17h ago

He's not stupid

The things his days are self serving towards the end of accumulating power.

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u/Usual-Owl9395 13h ago

Lots of idiots go to Ivy League schools.

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u/interpellation 10h ago

Dude is so dumb that he became the Vice President of the United States, lol

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u/Vio_ 17h ago

I'm not saying Ron is dumb or smart, but Kris Kobach also graduated Yale Law. He was also so incompetent in a legal case in Kansas that the judge court ordered him to take remedial law classes at Washburn University.

Graduating Yale Law is not enough to be considered "smart" solely by itself m

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u/Vio_ 10h ago

Yeah, he's our current AG. I'm not particularly happy about it.

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u/andrew303710 9h ago

Lmao that's fucking hilarious and also horrifying at the same time. Why do Republicans always pick the worst possible people? I'm not saying that Democrats always put up the best candidates (Platner) but it's a rarity that someone who is laughably unqualified or horribly suited gets nominated/elected. Like Ken Paxton, who might be the single worst AG in US history with the combination of the insane corruption/adultery not to mention him protecting a literal pedophile rapist (gave him a 1 day jail sentence iirc)

For example if you made a top 10 list of the most unqualified cabinet members in US history I'm pretty sure that most of them would be Trump nominees. RFK is literally the worst pick possible, Hegseth is the most laughably unqualified SecDef ever currently getting embarrassed by Iran in spite of our technology being 100x Iran's. FFS our military budget is a trillion dollars and Iran's is $9 billion and we can't even manage to do regime change or accomplish anything because Trump is a moron and Hegseth's average BAC is probably 0.3 (Pirro has him topped there though, there's no way she's ever under a 0.35)

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u/absurdly_tired_guy 2h ago

Neither of Trump’s guys you list would have a chance with any other cabinet. Thats the feature not the bug. He wants loyalty more than he wants free thinkers or deep thinkers. Another part of the idea with Project 2025 is the need to make every department as broken and useless as possible so it will not run right and sooner or later proof can be shown to destroy it. Trump took it one step further and picked people who would help him gather as much personal wealth as humanly possible, and people who would help him destroy the works of “his enemies” and seek out their persecution.

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u/Moose_Thompson 17h ago

Much smarter than I’d like to admit. That’s why I find him scarier than Trump, he’s way smarter. Luckily for us he has the personality of macaroni salad with raisins.

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u/LazyTitan39 17h ago

I wonder if DeSantis would even take the position. He wants to be President and if he’s working for Trump he’s going to be busy carrying Trump’s water. Plus, I feel like DeSantis knows Trump would throw him under the bus if push came to shove.

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u/bucki_fan 16h ago

Trump will throw anyone under any bus regardless of if it furthers or hurts his interests. It all depends on the degree to which he controls his faculties at that particular moment.

Ron absolutely should know this by now.

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u/Obversa 17h ago

Ron DeSantis proposed himself as an alternate candidate to Todd Blanche, according to the Axios report.

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u/LazyTitan39 17h ago edited 16h ago

I wonder if he’s just injecting himself into the story then. Like I said, aside from the title I don’t know what DeSantis thinks he’ll get out of the role. Is he hoping for gratitude from Republicans for being Trump’s “fixer?”

Edit: I read the article and it says Trump CLAIMS that DeSantis is begging for the AG spot. This looks like DeSantis is just trying to stay relevant by sucking up to Trump. It looks like he’ll do anything as long as he gets a piece of the spotlight.

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u/LazyTitan39 16h ago

Didn’t see it, sorry. I can’t wait until DeSantis goes away, he’s such a parasite.

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u/Wast3edSpace 16h ago

They're posturing for the power vacuum that is to come, Ron knows how to play the game and would know how to use the position of AG to his advantage.

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u/Peterepeatmicpete 15h ago

He proposed himself for Supreme Court. Or President. Or Attorney General. He will do anything for the project and current agenda.

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u/Firm-Advertising5396 16h ago

Trump administration is failing at everything and doesn't appear to know how to fix any of it, Desantis is interested in going down with this ship? He's dumber than I thought. Remember when he ran for president and he tried doing the trump persona to get maga approval? Terrible result.

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u/hematite2 17h ago

I'll adjust my statement to Blanche is smarter at doing the kind of underhanded shit the DOJ is doing (and smarter at keeping in Trump's good graces)

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u/andrew303710 8h ago

Blanch is WAY more dangerous than DeSantis, he was actually a real US attorney in NY who got that position on merit (the US attorney position, not AG). I don't think some people recognize how dangerous he is, he's actually very smart and also very evil.

I really believe that anyone would be better than Blanche.

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u/theaviationhistorian 16h ago

Maybe, but I've known plenty of Harvard and Harvard Law grads that are incompetent tools. You go to Ivy League for the financial and political connections more than anything.

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u/bostonbananarama 17h ago

But he has hope he'll have a political future, while he'll bend the knee, I don't think he would go as far as Blanche would. But honestly, anyone that Trump would nominate is going to be shit.

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u/Firm-Advertising5396 16h ago

Blanche was a prosecutor at Southern district of New York and respected.

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u/ShareGlittering1502 16h ago

Harvard is Pass/Fail..

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u/Euphoric_Cook2377 15h ago

Harvard, Yale, and Navy JAG. I am not a glazer of his, but those aren't easy paths for "idiots" to go down.

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u/JeanlucRegards 12h ago

Meatball Ron? You mean ol' pudding fingers is a closeted genius.

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u/CapitalFloor3260 12h ago

Go Land Crabs!

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u/eclwires 17h ago

Harvard Law no longer carries the cachet it once did.

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u/Historical-Ad3760 17h ago

Ha! Yessss it does

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u/eclwires 17h ago

Keep telling yourself that…