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Supreme Court rejects appeal from former Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer
Archer has denied that he intended to defraud anyone and claimed that prosecutors have relied on circumstantial evidence.
Published: January 23, 2024 11:30am
The Supreme Court rejected former Hunter Biden business partner Devon Archer's appeal of his criminal conviction in connection to a scheme to defraud a Native American tribe.
Archer was convicted in 2018 and sentenced to just over a year in prison in 2022 for defrauding a Native American tribe of $60 million in bonds. The Supreme Court refused to hear Archer's appeal challenging his sentence on Monday.
Archer is out on bail, and the court's rejection of his appeal means his conviction and sentence will remain in place, which brings him closer to serving time in prison.
Hunter Biden, who served on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma alongside Archer, was not implicated in the scheme.
Archer has denied that he intended to defraud anyone and claimed that prosecutors have relied on circumstantial evidence.
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/supreme-court-rejects-appeal-former-hunter-biden-business-partner-devon
DHS warned of integrity of mail-in voting in 2020 election but at the same time censored questions
"The federal government was trying to basically spread propaganda that 2020 was "safe and secure", and that there was no issue with the mail-in ballots when they themselves knew that this is a huge vulnerability," Abe Hamadeh said.
Published: January 22, 2024 11:00pm1/3
The Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) was aware of the issues with mail-in voting during the 2020 election cycle but censored social media narratives about the risks as alleged disinformation, according to agency documents.
CISA documents were released on Monday by America First Legal, showing the agency’s concerns about mail-in voting while it was also monitoring online opinions about such concerns.
"These documents demonstrate federal bureaucrats knew that there was no credible evidence supporting the claim that in-person voting spread COVID-19, and that mail-in and absentee voting were indeed less secure than in-person voting, precisely as President Trump, Attorney General Barr, and others had warned," said AFL Senior Counselor and Director of Oversight and Investigations Reed D. Rubenstein.
"Yet, the government and its allied social and legacy media companies covered up the truth, using unlawful censorship and bogus 'fact checks' to advance mass vote-by-mail schemes," he continued. "This 'mail-in ballot cover-up,' like Russia Collusion, Ukraine impeachment, and the Hunter Biden laptop suppression, shows how Deep State bureaucrats, liberal operatives, and their corporate allies combined to interfere in our Presidential elections. It is a monumental scandal."
America First Legal is suing CISA for 2020 records from its mis-, dis-, and malinformation (MDM) team. According to records obtained by America First Legal from its lawsuit, CISA knew that mail-in and absentee voting are less secure than voting in person. America First Legal has represented Just the News in some Freedom of Information Act cases.
CISA had made a chart by October 2020 listing the risks of mail-in voting.
The list of risks were:
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“Implementation of mail-in voting infrastructure and processes within a compressed timeline may also introduce new risk.”
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“For mail-in voting, some of the risk under the control of election officials during in-person voting shifts to outside entities, such as ballot printers, mail processing facilities, and the United States Postal Service.”
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“Integrity attacks on voter registration data and systems represent a comparatively higher risk in a mail-in voting environment when compared to an in-person voting environment.”
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“The outbound and inbound processing of mail-in ballots introduces additional infrastructure and technology, increasing potential scalability of cyber attacks.”
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“Inbound mail-in ballot processes and tabulation take longer than in-person processing, causing tabulation of results to occur more slowly and resulting in more ballots to tabulate following election night.”
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“Disinformation risk to mail-in voting infrastructure and processes is similar to that of in-person voting while utilizing different content. Threat actors may leverage limited understanding regarding mail-in voting processes to mislead and confuse the public.”
CISA also listed three “major challenges with absentee voting” by September 2020, noting “the process of mailing and returning ballots,” the “high numbers of improperly completed ballots (figures not yet released),” and “the shortage of personnel to process ballots in a prompt manner.”
Despite being aware of the concerns of mail-in voting, CISA contracted accounting and consulting firm Deloitte to monitor and flag social media posts regarding the 2020 election and vote-by-mail. One such post that was flagged by Deloitte to CISA was from President Donald Trump’s Twitter feed, which said that there were “big problems and discrepancies with Mail In Ballots.”
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/dhs-agency-warned-about-integrity-mail-voting-2020-election-while
DOCS CAN BE FOUND HERE
https://aflegal.org/bombshell-documents-america-first-legal-lawsuit-reveals-cisa-knew-about-mail-in-voting-risks-in-2020-while-censoring-related-narratives-as-disinformation/
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Other flagged posts that Deloitte reported to CISA included, “The Governor of Texas quoted an article from a local news outlet on the state’s recent history of voter fraud convictions and claimed that it reveals ‘Mail ballot vote fraud in Texas,’” and “A conservative online activist accused Twitter of censoring her posts about voter fraud she is ‘witnessing here in Nevada,’ and expressed her frustration with Twitter’s disclaimers stating that mail-in ballots are secure.”
CISA also formed the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), a private-led consortium that policed and mass-reported alleged misinformation to social media providers ahead of the 2020 and 2022 elections. The agency largely flew under the public radar before Just the News highlighted the leading role it played in creating EIP.
The subsequent barrage of litigation, public records requests and congressional probes revealed consortium leaders crediting CISA with the idea of circumventing First Amendment protections by outsourcing policing to third parties and shaping the effort.
The Supreme Court accepted a case this term to evaluate the constitutionality of alleged federal coercion of private platforms to suppress disfavored narratives. Advocacy groups for journalists, academics, doctors, technologists and big business asked the court to tread lightly on federal powers.
EIP also noted in a 2020 election after-action report the importance of the Center for Internet Security, a nonprofit that participated in censorship of purported election "misinformation." CIS participated in censorship during both the 2020 and 2022 elections through its Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing & Analysis Center (EI-ISAC).
"EI-ISAC served as a singular conduit for election officials to report false or misleading information to platforms," according to the EIP report. "By serving as a one-stop reporting interface, the EI-ISAC allowed election officials to focus on detecting and countering election misinformation while CIS and its partners reported content to the proper social media platforms."
Abe Hamadeh, GOP candidate for Arizona’s 8th Congressional District, discussed issues with mail-in voting and the CISA documents on “Just the News, No Noise” TV show on Monday.
Hamadeh, who served in the Army, said that he was deployed in Saudi Arabia during the 2020 presidential election and voted from overseas. However, after he returned home, he found multiple mail-in ballots were sent to his house.
“When I came back home from my deployment, I had multiple mail-in ballots in my house that were not associated with my name — they were prior tenants or prior owners,” Hamadeh said. “The idea that the federal government was trying to basically spread propaganda that 2020 was safe and secure, and that there was no issue with the mail-in ballots when they themselves knew that this is a huge vulnerability … just shows you the lengths that the deep state goes to try to control the narrative and the propaganda,” he later added.
Mike Benz, executive director of Foundation For Freedom Online, told Just the News on Monday that the CISA documents showed how this was a “scandal because DHS was the entity responsible for censoring anybody who questioned mail-in ballots and questioning anything about them that might be fraud," or where there was "risk of fraud.”
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He added that CISA “pulled off the heist of the century to argue that as cybersecurity agency, they had the power to censor the internet because misinformation about elections is a cyber threat to critical infrastructure, the critical infrastructure being elections, the threat being disinformation, and cyber being internet related.”
This “long-armed jurisdiction” meant CISA believed “that tweets about mail-in ballots not being safe and secure and reliable should be censored” on social media platforms, Benz explained.
CISA and Deloitte didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment on Monday.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/dhs-agency-warned-about-integrity-mail-voting-2020-election-while
LINK TO ALL FOIA DOCUMENTS
https://aflegal.org/bombshell-documents-america-first-legal-lawsuit-reveals-cisa-knew-about-mail-in-voting-risks-in-2020-while-censoring-related-narratives-as-disinformation/
Kevin Morris invoked attorney privilege at least 17 times to avoid questions about Hunter Biden
Morris loaned Hunter Biden at least $5 million and purchased over $800K worth of artwork to keep the first son afloat during his father’s presidential campaign. Updated: January 23, 2024 9:14am1/2
In his deposition last week, Hollywood lawyer Kevin Morris and his lawyer invoked attorney-client privilege at least 17 times over questions related to his payments and work for Hunter Biden.
According to the transcript of the testimony reviewed by Just the News, Morris said that he began representing Biden about one week after the December 2019 California fundraiser for his father, Joe Biden, who became president in 2020. The details surrounding this meeting were previously reported by Just the News.
Morris’ early representation of Hunter Biden allowed him to invoke the privilege frequently, to avoid answering questions about his first meeting with the first son, how he paid Hunter Biden’s other attorneys and about the planning for Hunter Biden’s defiant speech in front of the Capitol while avoiding complying with his first congressional subpoena.
Specifically, Morris attempted to invoke the privilege regarding his acquisition of one of Hunter Biden's companies after Joe Biden's inauguration. Additionally, he denied claims that he was motivated by political concerns to help the first son solve his tax issues and stay afloat during his father's campaign, which was indicated by evidence from the IRS whistleblowers last year.
Morris did not respond to a request for comment from Just the News about his testimony.
According to the transcript, Morris claimed that his legal representation of Hunter Biden was “global and complete” and therefore argued that almost any detail of their relationship is off limits to congressional investigators. Yet despite this, Morris told the committee that he had not represented Hunter directly in the past three years.
In one example, Morris refused to answer how much in loans he provided to Hunter Biden to pay his legal fees.
“So have you paid millions of dollars for Hunter Biden’s legal fees via loans?” an investigator asked.
“Mr. Morris only knows that from his attorney-client relationship with Mr. Biden and consequently cannot answer that question,” Morris’ lawyer answered.
Morris also initially attempted to invoke the privilege when questioned about his acquisition of Hunter Biden’s Skaneateles – a company that owned a stake in Bohai Harvest RST, a Chinese company from one of Hunter Biden’s initial deals in the country. Morris acquired Hunter’s stake in November 2021, less than a year after Joe Biden was inaugurated.
“How did it come up that you were going to purchase Skaneateles? Or why did you buy Skaneateles of all the companies that Hunter Biden was involved with? Why that one?” investigators asked.
“That’s privileged. I am not going to answer that because of attorney-client privilege,” Morris responded.
However, after a brief recess from questioning, his attorney convinced him that he had to answer the question and Morris reversed course.
“I did the transaction because, you know, I evaluated it as a businessman, and I thought it was something that could be a very successful investment,” Morris said in his new answer.
“[B]ut I did diligence on the assets. I knew what … Hunter paid for it in the beginning, and I saw, and I still see upside,” he continued.
Yet, earlier in the questioning, Morris was apparently not well informed on what Skaneateles was or what investments BHR makes.
“What kind of company was Skaneateles?” the investigators asked. “I mean, I don’t know. An LLC, I think,” Morris answered.
“And do you know what kind of investments that BHR makes?” Morris was asked.
“I knew better at one time. I remember going through them. I don’t remember exactly what they were. I think they were – I don’t know. I think they were infrastructure,” he answered.
In an effort to justify his expansive attorney-client privilege claims, Morris also claimed, despite not representing his client directly for three years, he is “like a general counsel” in Hunter Biden’s “virtual corporation,” meaning that he is involved in everything with the first son.
“Counsel, in my job I represent high-profile individuals. … [H]igh-profile individuals have basically virtual corporations. And in those virtual corporations, they have all kinds of staff and assistants. You know, agents and managers … publicists. You know, whatever. And what I do is I oversee … sort of the squad. Sort of like a general counsel,” Morris told the committees.
“But I am involved in everything. I am involved in everything. And the same is with Hunter. If you check my retainer agreements, you’ll see that it’s not – it says all matters,” he continued.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/hldkevin-morris-invoked-attorney-client-privilege-least-17-times
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A conservative legal group has raised concerns about Morris’ legal representation of Biden while he paid his bills and debts, alleging it could be a violation of California Bar rules.
America First Legal filed a complaint with the state bar against Morris for allegedly violating its Rules of Professional Conduct.
According to rule 1.8.5(a): “[a] lawyer shall not directly or indirectly pay or agree to pay, guarantee, or represent that the lawyer or lawyer’s law firm will pay the personal or business expenses of a prospective or existing client,’ according to the California Bar.
Yet, Morris confirmed to the committee that he loaned Hunter Biden millions of dollars from 2020 to 2024 that are recorded in promissory notes. Just the News reported in November that Morris had loaned at least $5 million to the younger Biden to cover his tax debts and living expenses.
In his testimony, Morris also told House investigators that he never spoke with Hunter Biden or his family members about politics, claiming that his help was not politically motivated, despite being a Democratic donor who supported Joe Biden’s presidential campaign.
“So it’s your testimony here today that politically, that political risk had nothing to do with then-candidate Joe Biden; that’s your testimony?” the investigators asked Morris.
“Correct,” he answered.
Yet, previous reports from Just the News revealed how Morris was explicitly concerned with the political risk surrounding Hunter Biden tax debts specifically as he worked in early 2020 to remedy the situation.
In December, IRS whistleblower Joseph Ziegler provided a new batch of evidence to the House Ways and Means Committee from his team’s tax investigation into Hunter Biden, codenamed Sportsman.
The documents detailed a late January “crisis meeting” held at Morris’ home in Los Angeles with Hunter Biden and his team of accountants and lawyers. The meeting was ostensibly to discuss Biden’s mounting tax issues.
Hunter Biden accountant Troy Schmidt told IRS, FBI and Justice Department investigators that the group did not discuss the tax returns at all, according to one interview memo Ziegler provided to the committee.
In an email to Schmidt that the IRS whistleblower turned over to Congress and that was sent shortly after the crisis meeting, Morris specifically highlighted the political risk of failing to file the returns in a timely manner.
“Emergency is off for today. Still need to file Monday – we are under considerable risk personally and politically to get the returns in,” Morris wrote Schmidt on Feb. 7, 2020.
“Sorry for the pressure earlier. Please send the issues list ASAP,” Morris continued, expressing urgency.
Morris told the committees, to the best of his recollection, the political risk he referenced in the email was related to the first Donald Trump impeachment because Hunter Biden’s work for the Ukrainian energy company Burisma had become front and center as the proceedings unfolded. He claimed that his concerns had nothing to do with Joe Biden’s campaign.
https://justthenews.com/accountability/political-ethics/hldkevin-morris-invoked-attorney-client-privilege-least-17-times
Georgia judge pumps brakes on Fani Willis deposition in prosecutor’s divorce case
by Ella Lee - 01/22/24 12:33 PM ET
A Georgia judge put a pause Monday on Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s (D) scheduled deposition in divorce proceedings involving a top prosecutor in the 2020 election interference case against former President Trump.
Special prosecutor Nathan Wade’s divorce came into the spotlight after one of Trump’s co-defendants, Michael Roman, accused Wade and Willis of being involved in an improper romantic relationship that renders the district attorney’s office’s sweeping racketeering indictment “fatally defective.”
Andrea Hastings, a lawyer for Wade’s estranged wife, argued Monday that Willis has “unique knowledge” about Wade’s marriage and that her position as district attorney shouldn’t protect her from divulging that information to assist in dividing the Wades’s marital assets.
Willis was subpoenaed earlier this month in the ongoing divorce case between Wade and his wife, Joycelyn, which began in 2021. “She’s trying to hide under the shield of her position,” Hastings said of Willis.
Willis’s lawyer,Cinque Axam, said Monday that any knowledge Willis obtains could also be provided by Wade. “You’ve got two partners in the case, one who is alleged to have some extramarital affair with Ms. Willis,” Axam argued. “If that is the case — if that is true, [Wade] has that information.” “There are other means by which that information can be achieved in this case,” he said.
Axam also said Willis does not share any bank accounts with Wade, nor does she determine how he spends his money — “no matter where it comes from,” he said.
Last week, Wade’s wife in court filings accused Wade of purchasing multiple flights for himself and Willis in the months before they charged Trump and 18 others with attempting to subvert the state’s 2020 election results. The documents include bank statements that appear to show flights to San Francisco and Miami as the Fulton County district attorney’s office investigated Trump and his allies.
Judge Henry Thompson declined to absolve Willis from being deposed in the future but temporarily paused the requirement until after Wade has been deposed.
“Only after I hear what Mr. Wade has to say do I think I can make a determination of whether the proposed opponent has any unique knowledge about these issues,” Thompson said. Thompson also agreed to unseal documents related to Wade’s divorce, after finding that the original order sealing the case was not properly entered.
The matter was brought to the court’s attention by Ashleigh Merchant, Roman’s lawyer. A coalition of media outlets also filed to unseal the records. Roman, the defendant who originally brought attention to the alleged relationship, has asked a judge to dismiss the case against him and block Willis, Wade and the Fulton County district attorney’s office from further involvement in the case.
The district attorney’s office has repeatedly declined to comment on the romance accusations and indicated it will respond in court documents.
Judge Scott McAfee, who is overseeing Trump’s case, ordered Willis to address the accusations in writing by Feb. 2. McAfee also scheduled a hearing on the matter for Feb. 15.
https://thehill.com/homenews/4421837-georgia-judge-fani-willis-deposition-divorce-case/
(I bet he is the VP pick for PDJT)
His presidential bid over, North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum says he won’t seek a third term as governor
By JACK DURA Updated 3:13 PM EST, January 22, 2024
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum announced Monday that he will not seek a third term as governor, over a month after he ended his bid for the GOP presidential nomination.
His recent endorsement of former President Donald Trump, and Trump’s praise of the little-known governor, have fueled speculation about Burgum serving in a possible second Trump administration. The governor told reporters his endorsement of Trump and a potential role for him are unrelated to his decision not to run. He said he’s planning “a very active last year in office” and “to run through the tape hard.”
His decision creates an open race for the state government’s top job in the sparsely populated, Republican-dominant state. Democrats haven’t won a statewide election since Heidi Heitkamp’s U.S. Senate victory in 2012.
Burgum, 67, is a wealthy software entrepreneur who won an upset victory in 2016 over the state’s popular attorney general in the Republican gubernatorial primary election. He campaigned on a message of “reinventing” state government amid a $1 billion state revenue shortfall. He went on to win his first term and reelection in 2020 by overwhelming margins. His term ends in December.
He told reporters that part of his decision not to run is because of family, and he became emotional discussing his three adult children. Leaving office, he said the private sector has “gigantic opportunities,” and he isn’t ruling out a run for future office.
“I think impact is going to be what drives the decisions I make in the future. Wherever that path may be, it’s going to be where I can have the biggest impact,” Burgum said in a Capitol press conference. He called a vice presidential or Cabinet role “hypothetical at this point in time.”
Burgum’s next steps might very well be a return to the private sector, “at least until something might unfold in the public service standpoint,” said former Gov. Ed Schafer, a Republican who served from 1992-2000. A position in a potential Trump administration isn’t assured, he added.
“It’s possible” Burgum might seek a U.S. Senate seat, though he “doesn’t seem the Senate type only becausehe’s an operations guy,” Schafer said. But a Senate seat is an opportunity to affect national public policy, one of the reasons Burgum ran for president, said Schafer, who thinks it extremely unlikely Burgum would challenge Sen. Kevin Cramer for his seat on the ballot this year.
“Already everybody’s scrambling” after Burgum’s announcement, with the path clear for several potential or rumored Republican gubernatorial candidates, Schafer said. “It changes the chessboard” if some incumbents shift their election plans; for instance, if U.S. Rep. Kelly Armstrong were to run for governor, the state’s sole House seat would open up, Schafer said.
North Dakota’s Republican Party will endorse a gubernatorial ticket at its convention in April in Fargo. But like what Burgum notoriously did in 2016, candidates are free to run in the June primary election to clinch the party nomination for November.
Burgum entered office at the height of the Dakota Access oil pipeline protests. He led the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic with messages of staying “North Dakota smart” and urging “personal responsibility” as COVID-19 cases soared. He’s also had to deal with terrible droughts, crippling winter storms and important questions of how to spend the state’s federal coronavirus aid and how to use the state’s ballooning oil tax savings.
As governor, Burgum championed a Theodore Roosevelt presidential library in the state’s colorful Badlands where the 26th president hunted and ranched in the 1880s. He and his wife Kathryn, a recovering alcoholic, prioritized recovery from addiction as a top issue in his administration.
He’s pushed income tax cuts with mixed results. He signed a sheaf of bills last year that opponents decried as harmful to transgender people, including a ban on gender-affirming care for children and restrictions on school athletic participation.
His relationship with lawmakers has been rocky. In 2020 and 2022, Burgum targeted the seats of fellow Republicans with millions of his own money, including the top House budget writer.
Burgum supported a term limits ballot initiative in 2022. The governor cannot be elected more than twice, and state lawmakers are limited to eight years in the House and eight years in the Senate. The term limits are not retroactive and do not prevent Burgum from running for a third or fourth term.
https://apnews.com/article/north-dakota-doug-burgum-not-seeking-reelection-f19d00eeaafe90ffe7b09804c0254ab2
Hawley, McConnell in GOP standoff over nominees
by Alexander Bolton - 01/23/24 6:00 AM ETHow is this even legal, more fucking swamp creatures
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) isn’t backing down from his standoff with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.)over two McConnell-backed nominees to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
Hawley is standing firm despite growing pressure from Senate GOP colleagues, including Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas), the senior Republican on the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, who want to fill the GOP vacancies on the two agencies.
Hawley is holding upAndrew Ferguson, McConnell’s former chief counsel, who is nominated to serve on theFTC, andTodd Inman, a former McConnell campaign aide, who is nominated to theNTSB.Inman also previously served as a chief of staff to former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao,McConnell’s wife.
McConnell and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) tried to confirm Ferguson and Inman to fill Republican vacancies on the two agencies before Christmas,but Hawley blocked them.
Hawley in a Dec. 20 letter to McConnellsaid the nomineesneeded more vetting.
“If Republicans are planning to install dozens of Biden nominees for positions across the federal government — without a vote — in exchange for just a handful of our own selections, I want to be sure that we get our nominees right,” Hawley wrote.
The Missouri senator held up the nominees after he blamed McConnell for stripping an amendment he sponsored from the annual defense authorization bill that would have expanded and extended the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to cover individuals and families around St. Louis exposed to improperly stored nuclear waste left over from the Manhattan Project.
A month later, two vacancies on the five-member NTSB and the lame-duck status of NTSB board member Thomas Chapman — an appointee of former President Trump whose term expired at the end of December — are coming under increased scrutiny after a door plug blew off an Alaska Airlines flight at 16,000 feet earlier this month. One Senate GOP aide said the NTSB is being stretched thin by having to respond to the Alaska Airlines accident, which required Chair Jennifer Homendy to travel to Portland, Ore., earlier this month to oversee the investigation.
Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), who battled Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) last year over his holds on more than 300 military promotions, expressed frustration over how long it is taking to confirm nominees to key aviation oversight positions.
“I pay very close attention to the issue, because aviation accidents in my state are way higher than in any other state for a whole host of reasons. So having the key safety team in for aviation is really important for Alaska,” said Sullivan, a member of the Commerce Committee, which has jurisdiction over the safety board.
Cruz, the ranking member on the Commerce panel, is calling for both Inman and Ferguson to be confirmed quickly.“I think it’s certainly important to fill the position. I think Mr. Inman is a good nominee. The Commerce Committee voted him out with strong bipartisan support, and so I hope the Senate moves swiftly to confirm him,” Cruz told The Hill.
Hawley met with Ferguson and Inman last week but still has concerns. “For both of them, we had good substantive talks — lengthy talk with both. I think the next step in this process is I have a series of questions that I put to them that I’d still like to see answered,” he said Monday evening.
Hawley said he didn’t get the chance to vet the nominees’ views on key policy issues because he doesn’t sit on the Commerce Committee. Hawley said “it’s important” that the Republican nominees be “good policy choices” and not primarily guided by political patronage.
“I want to be sure they are actually folks who are good on policy,” he said. “This doesn’t seem to be much of a priority for our leadership, because I’ve gotten absolutely zero outreach from the Republican leader on this. So that tells me that this is not a big deal to them, at this point.”
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4422795-hawley-mcconnell-in-gop-standoff-over-nominees/