...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...Sasse, 53, wrote, "This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die." While noting that death "is a wicked thief" and that he's "on the clock," Sasse said he's still got a lot of fight left in him and that there are groundbreaking treatment options available to him.
He also had a message for his fellow Christians during this run-up to Christmas, writing, "There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come."
Ben Sasse, a one-time Department of Justice employee who eventually worked as a congressional staffer (he was chief of staff to former GOP Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska) and a college president, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2014, handily beating his Democrat opponent, Dave Domina, and winning 93 of 94 counties.
During his time in the Senate, Sasse served on the Judiciary, Finance, and Intelligence Committees, and was heavily involved in judicial nominations, tax and budget issues, and national security policy. He was well-known for locking horns with President Trump, and blamed the president for "pouring gasoline on these fires of division" and ignoring his oath of office on January 6, 2021.
Sasse resigned his Senate seat in 2023 in order to become president of The University of Florida, a post he ended up leaving in July of 2024. He has spent the time since leaving Florida largely out of the public eye.
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