Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) won’t support a Perkins Coie attorney’s nomination to be a US attorney in his state over now-deleted tweets, potentially sinking her confirmation chances.
Johnson’s Tuesday announcement that he won’t support the confirmation of Sopen Shah comes after the senator recommended her to the White House through a bipartisan nomination commission with fellow Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D).
“Through tweets that she has now deleted, Ms. Sopen Shah demonstrated she would be yet another political partisan within our justice system. As a result, I will not support her nomination,” Johnson said in a statement.
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