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09/27/19 1:36 PM
While Dems Obsessed over Whistleblower, Senate Confirmed Justice Scalia's Son as Labor Secretary
September 26, 2019
While the whistleblower controversy and impeachment have been the talk of the town, other important things have also been going on this week, as evidenced by the Senate’s 53-44 vote Thursday to confirm Eugene Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, as secretary of labor.
The position opened up in July, after then-Labor Secretary Alex Acosta resigned over his handling of a plea deal given more than a decade ago to wealthy financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who has since died in an apparent suicide.
The position opened up in July, after then-Labor Secretary Alex Acosta resigned over his handling of a plea deal given more than a decade ago to wealthy financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who has since died in an apparent suicide.
Trump has offered high praise for Eugene Scalia’s accomplishments, believing him more than qualified to lead the Labor Department.
“Gene has led a life of great success in the legal and labor field and is highly respected not only as a lawyer, but as a lawyer with great experience … working with labor and everyone else. He will be a great member of an Administration that has done more in the first 2 ½ years than perhaps any Administration in history!” Trump tweeted in July.
In 2012, The Wall Street Journal reported that Scalia “has emerged as one of the industry’s go-to guys for challenging financial regulations.”
Scalia has previously worked for Walmart, and has a history of fighting government regulation.
