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On the recordDecember 2, 2021
Madam President, in a couple of hours, Senator Schumer is bringing to the floor one of the most dangerous pro-crime, anti-cop U.S. nominees in American history. The Senate floor leader wants to ram through President Biden's extreme nominee to be the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, the current Suffolk County district attorney, Rachel Rollins. In doing so, the Democrats are showing they don't care about crime as a crime wave crashes across the country, they do not support law enforcement, and they have a wanton disregard for the safety and security of Americans. Now, it is true that we rarely have record votes of U.S. attorneys in the Senate. In fact, I think it has been 28 years. It is also true that Rachael Rollins is so radical that she is without precedent as a nominee to be the U.S. attorney. Rachael Rollins is the very epitome of a Soros prosecutor, although it is generous to call her a prosecutor at all. For those of you who do not know the term, ``Soros prosecutor'' refers to the wave of so-called progressive political activists backed by wealthy liberal mega donors like George Soros, who have run for local district attorney and State attorney positions throughout the country with the express purpose--the express purpose of igniting revolution and destroying our criminal justice systems from within. They have left a trail of death, pain, suffering, and misery in their wake. Chicago has already had more than 1,000 murders this year--1,000 murders, with a month to go.…
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Tom Cotton
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