President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he intends to name Eugene Scalia, son of the late Supreme Court justice, as his new labor secretary nominee.
I am pleased to announce that it is my intention to nominate Gene Scalia as the new Secretary of Labor. 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….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 19, 2019
The tweet comes days after his former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta resigned under a pall of scrutiny swirling around his connection to accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
According to Politico, Scalia met with Trump on Thursday and White House aides have been canvassing Senators to ascertain the likelihood of his confirmation.
Scalia has served as chief legal officer for the Labor Department under former President George W. Bush and has been a special assistant to now-Attorney General William Barr.
The only good news for us is that this will not be an appointment for life like his daddy had.
A son of a bitch (seldom has that saying been more appropriate) is nominated by our porcine embarrassment. I hope the guy is not the same ideologue his father was. God! I hated that associate justice.
TPM can you please provide background information/credentials on the new appointee.
Can you identify what Labor policies he supports/opposes?
Or should we understand that he like most Trump appointees is incompetent, corrupt & is there to systematically dismantle the department and will not regulate human sex trafficking.
I don’t know much about his policies, but I do know some of the other Scalia kids, and they are quite reasonable, friendly nice people. In fact one of them seems to have fallen so far from the tree that she was probably shot from a cannon and then aided by a strong wind.
Scalia fell out of the Barr tree. There you have it.