Vanita Gupta will face attacks from Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. Policing leaders, as HuffPost first reported last month, have pushed back on the baseless “law and order”-style attacks that a D.C. conservative group launched against Gupta. In a letter obtained by HuffPost, Democratic attorneys general from 22 states wrote that Gupta was “guided by a commitment …
CNN — Senate Republicans took aim at associate attorney general nominee Vanita Gupta’s past tweets at a contentious confirmation hearing Tuesday, where Gupta was pressed on her previous comments and whether she supports defunding the police and decriminalizing drugs. Gupta is the latest non-White Cabinet nominee of President Joe Biden who’s faced intense pushback from Republicans, following the pulling of …
