Thinkprogress:
Yet as Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) revealed in a letter to Bush on Thursday, an anonymous Republican is now actually holding up two of the President’s top Justice Department nominees. From Leahy’s letter:
I regret to inform you that we were stalled last week in our efforts to fill two other critical positions at the Department, when an anonymous Republican hold blocked confirmation of Kevin O’Connor to be the Associate Attorney General, and Gregory Katsas to be the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Division. I was particularly disappointed with this unexpected development. … They were set for confirmation before the Easter recess, until the last-minute Republican objection stalled them.
No comments:
Post a Comment