Aaron Reitz has been appointed the next U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Texas. Reitz previously worked as a top deputy to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and worked in the Trump Justice Department before running for attorney general earlier this year.

Reitz finished fourth, despite Paxton's endorsement, in a crowded and expensive primary. The Marine Corps veteran ran on a militant platform of destroying the left, going after DEI and waging  counter-jihad  on radical Muslims.


As U.S. attorney, Reitz will be responsible for federal prosecutions and civil litigation involving the federal government in a vast region that includes Houston and large swaths of the U.S.-Mexico border.

 Our office will relentlessly combat violent crime, illegal immigration, drug and human trafficking, corruption, and fraud,  Reitz said in a statement.  Things are about to get very bad for criminals in the Southern District of Texas. 

He is replacing acting U.S. Attorney John Marck, who was recently confirmed as a judge in the Southern District. This office has been a springboard to the federal bench under President Donald Trump: former Southern District U.S. Attorney Nicholas Ganjei and Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney Arthur  Rob  Jones were also both nominated to federal judgeships, with Trump noting their aggressive immigration enforcement.

Reitz is likely to follow suit on immigration. Under Paxton, he led much of the agency's most aggressive litigation against the Biden administration, especially on immigration. He has said that he wants to see 20 million people deported, and 50 million visa renewals denied from  Third Worlders. 

Bloomberg Law reported Tuesday that Reitz will skip the usual Senate confirmation process after judges in the Southern District voted to appoint him to the position. This will allow him to remain in the position until the Senate confirms a new appointee, which ostensibly the Trump administration will not put forward.

The Department of Justice has been using similar procedural machinations to appoint many of its federal prosecutors without Sena

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