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Views On Trump’s DOL Nominee Are All Over The Map

February 28, 2017

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Alexander Acosta, President Trump’s nominee to head the Department of Labor, is proving hard to pigeonhole. His conservative credentials are in some respects impeccable, as noted by Washington Post reporter Jonnelle Marte in her article laying out “five things you should know” about the nominee. She notes that after graduating from Harvard he clerked for then appeals court judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., held two positions in the George W. Bush administration, and is a longstanding member of the conservative Federalist Society. While in the Bush DOJ he was criticized from the left for at least two policy moves, including a controversial letter he wrote in support of Republican poll watchers in the 2004 election. He has also defended civil rights for Muslim Americans, both while in the Justice Department and as a law school dean in Florida. With regard to his current pending appointment, an article in the Washington Examiner noted that he received one union endorsement (from The International Union of Operating Engineers) and at the time of its writing a cool wait-and-see from other unions. But from Neil Munro on the Breitbart website comes quite a jaundiced view, a harsh take from the populist right. The headline reads “Trump’s Labor Nominee Supports Amnesty, Cheap Foreign Labor,” and the article takes off from there.

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