WASHINGTON – Mike Davis, founder and president of the Article III Project, issued the following statement after President Trump nominated Stanley Woodward to serve as Associate Attorney General and Elliot Gaiser to serve as Assistant Attorney General for The Office of Legal Counsel.

“Stanley Woodward, nominated by President Trump to serve as his #3 Justice Department official, is the ideal candidate to help Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche bring much-needed reforms to the politicized and weaponized Justice Department under Obama and Biden. Stanley defended many associates of President Trump and many January 6th defendants who the Biden Justice Department persecuted. With Stanley Woodward as President Trump's Associate Attorney General, justice is coming. Nobody is above the law.

“Elliot Gaiser, the Ohio solicitor general, is right out of central casting to serve as President Trump's nominee to lead the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. OLC is a crucial, but obscure, office that provides legal advice to the President and issues legal opinions that bind the Executive Branch. Elliot has the highest intellect and soundest judgment required to lead OLC. He's a rock-solid constitutionalist who clerked for two prestigious federal appellate judges—Edith Jones and Neomi Rao—before clerking for Justice Alito on the Supreme Court of the United States,” said Davis.

The Article III Project (A3P) was founded by veteran GOP operative and attorney Mike Davis, who, after helping win the Senate confirmation battles of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, developed the reputation as a “take-no-prisoners conservative eager to challenge the left with hardball tactics,” as reported in The New York Times.‍‍

‍A3P defends constitutionalist judges, punches back on radical assaults on judicial independence (like court-packing) and opposes judicial and other nominees who are outside of the mainstream. Davis previously served as Chief Counsel for Nominations to Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary and led the Senate confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and a record number of circuit court judges.

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