Democrats have long said President Donald Trump's picks for key Justice Department positions represent an effort to fill the ...

D. John Sauer pointed to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1944 Korematsu v. United States decision that upheld the internment of Japanese Americans. “I just wonder whether some historians might think we’d be ...

Trump nominates John Squires as Director of the USPTO; former USPTO Solicitor Farheena Rasheed to the PTAB as Vice Chief; ...

John Sauer, nominated by the Donald Trump administration as U.S. solicitor general, testified before the Senate ... Reitz, currently chief of staff for Texas Senator Ted Cruz, would head up the ...

Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-Louisiana) told Justice Dept. nominees: “Don’t ever, ever take the position that you’re not going to follow the order of a federal court — ever.” ...

Trump’s former personal attorney suggested public officials should “generally” follow court orders except in “extreme cases.” ...

Ted Cruz, R-Texas. He also worked for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican who frequently challenged the Biden administration in court. Sauer served as the solicitor general in Missouri ...

Sen. Richard J. Durbin asked Trump picks for Justice Department roles whether elected officials could refuse to obey a federal court order.

Ted Cruz (R-Texas), told lawmakers at the ... He spent five years as a federal prosecutor before becoming the solicitor general of Missouri when the state attorney general’s office was led ...

Hampton Dellinger also sought to halt the firing of some probationary government employees amid the Trump administration’s ...

The Texas congressman helped launch Ted Cruz’s career. Unlike his former boss, he is unafraid to criticize Trump—which might sideline him.