Rollins’ US attorney for Mass. nom on hold
See you next week. U.S. Senate Republicans on Thursday postponed a committee vote on Rachael Rollins’ nomination for U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, pushing it off a week in an unusual move.
GOP Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas put on the rare hold and vowed to highlight what his spokesman characterized to the Herald as Rollins’ “pro-criminal record for his Senate colleagues, understanding that a large number of them still care about public safety and will be deeply disturbed by the facts about Rollins.”
Rollins, the current Suffolk County District Attorney, is a progressive Democrat who’s made headlines for her decisions not to prosecute many low-level offenses.
The committee is expected to take the matter of her nomination up next week. Cotton would need to get at least one Democrat on the committee to vote against Rollins, who President Biden picked in July.
Rollins’ office cited the “wide range of support” she’s received for her nomination from the leaders of the police departments in all four of the cities in Suffolk County, including Boston, which her office noted “remains one of the very few major cities in the United States where violent crime is down.”