Editorial: Rachael Rollins is a model U.S. attorney appointment. That's why the GOP wants to stop her (via latimesopinion)
as assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division. In all three cases, the Judiciary Committee deadlocked in 11-11 party-line votes. Gupta and Clarke ultimately were confirmed on the Senate floor.
Elected Republicans continue to hitch their political wagons to the most reactionary segments of U.S. policing, which feel threatened by “defund” rhetoric. McConnell, Cotton, Cruz and others have followed their lead by making the specious assertion that Democrats have indeed stripped police of resources, when in fact, in almost all U.S. cities and counties, law enforcement funding continues to increase or at the very least hold steady.