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Chad Readler
Senators voted 52-47 on Chad Readler's Sixth Circuit nomination, with GOP Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) siding with Democrats to oppose him.
Readler, who previously worked as an assistant attorney general for the Civil Division at the Department of Justice, ran into controversy over a brief he filed last year supporting a lawsuit filed by Texas and other states seeking to strike down the Affordable Care Act.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/432927-senate-confirms-controversial-trump-court-pick-who-backed-obamacare-lawsuit
Chad Readler
Readler’s action in this context is consistent with his record. Throughout his career, Readler has been an ideological warrior. He professes that “[m]y day job is being a lawyer, (but) I want to work on cases that do have policy implications.”
As the acting head of the Department of Justice Civil Division under Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Readler defended the Trump Administration’s most odious policies, including separating immigrant children from their parents at the border, while claiming that “[e]verything that the Attorney General does that I’ve been involved with he’s . . . being very respectful of precedent and the text of the statute and proper role of agencies.”
https://www.afj.org/our-work/nominees/chad-readler