Former Justice Department prosecutors who handled Jan. 6 cases are pressuring the Senate to reject President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees if they refuse to characterize the 2021 Capitol riot as an attack on American democracy or acknowledge that former President Joe Biden won the 2020 election.
Twelve former government attorneys, many of whom worked under the Biden administration, signed a letter released Wednesday as the Senate Judiciary Committee convened a nominations hearing, arguing that senators should treat nominees’ answers about Jan. 6 and the 2020 election as a test of their fitness for lifetime appointments.
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