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Three nominees testified to a Senate panel.
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Feb. 26 grilled several individuals poised to take top positions in the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) on whether officials should always obey court rulings.
“It would be too case specific for me to say, to make a blanket statement about that,” Aaron Reitz, who has been nominated to lead the DOJ’s Office of Legal Policy, told the Senate Judiciary Committee during a confirmation hearing in Washington.
“That’s an incredible statement by someone who wants to be part of the Department of Justice,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said.
Durbin, the top Democrat on the panel, had pointed to Reitz’s 2020 social media post in which he expressed disagreement with a court decision and appeared to suggest that Texas officials should defy it.
“Bottom line, should an elected official be allowed to defy a federal court order?” Durbin had asked.
That’s when Reitz said it was too case-specific to say.
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