The Trump administration's law-and-order push under Attorney General Jeff Sessions has seen the GOP-held Senate confirm 65 of President Donald Trump's U.S. attorney nominees, which is eight more than the Obama administration at the same point, The Wall Street Journal reported.
"Once U.S. attorney nominees clear the Judiciary Committee, the Senate works to confirm them promptly and that will continue," spokesman Robert Steurer for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told the Journal.
Sessions has made it a Justice Department mission to bolster U.S. prosecution after critics of former President Barack Obama claimed the past administration "was too easy on criminals," according to the report.
"There's certainly a feeling that the previous administration was not sufficiently tough on immigration issues," Federalist Society contributor David Rivkin told the Journal.
Sessions' own critics have claimed he is "turning back the clock on civil rights" and "doesn't take issues like police brutality seriously enough," the Journal reported.
Also, "the pool is overwhelmingly male and overwhelmingly white," American Constitution Society's Victoria Bassetti told the paper.
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