Senate Judiciary Committee Approves Trump Nominees to be Deputy Attorney General and Associate Attorney General
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has approved presidential nominees to fill two subcabinet positions in the Department of Justice that have responsibility over the Department's immigration-related functions. The committee action occurred on Monday, April 3, 2017, in connection with the nominations of Rod J. Rosenstein to be Deputy Attorney General and Rachel L. Brand, to be Associate Attorney General. The Committee approved the Rosenstein nomination by a vote of 19-1]. it approved the Brand nomination by a vote of 11-9. |
The Committee took up the two nominations at the end of a long executive business meeting, during which it also approved the nomination of Neil M. Gorsuch to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. While the full Senate moved immediately to take up the Gorsuch nomination, it was not c;ear at the time of this writing when it would take up the Rosenstein and Brand nominations.