His political beliefs have been described as strongly socially conservative. In the Senate, he became widely known for his criticism of Big Tech, as well as for his criticism of the Chinese government and his support for an independent Hong Kong.
Before becoming Missouri attorney general, he was also an associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Law, and a faculty member of the conservative Blackstone Legal Fellowship.Īs Missouri attorney general, Hawley initiated several high-profile lawsuits and investigations, including a lawsuit against the Affordable Care Act, an investigation into Missouri governor Eric Greitens, and a lawsuit and investigation into companies associated with the opioid epidemic. McConnell and Chief Justice John Roberts and then worked as a lawyer, first in private practice from 2008 to 2011 and then for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty from 2011 to 2015. He was a law clerk to Tenth Circuit Judge Michael W. A member of the Republican Party, Hawley served as the 42nd attorney general of Missouri from 2017 to 2019, before defeating two-term incumbent Democratic senator Claire McCaskill in the 2018 election.īorn in Springdale, Arkansas, to a banker and a teacher, Hawley graduated from Stanford University in 2002 and Yale Law School in 2006. Two senators - Rob Portman, the Ohio Republican, and Jacky Rosen, the Jewish Nevada Democrat - each noted during the hearing that Congress had increased funding for securing nonprofit security grants, a program that has paid for added security for Jewish institutional targets, to $180 million.Joshua David Hawley (born December 31, 1979) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States senator from Missouri, a seat he has held since 2019. Mayorkas, who worked closely with Jewish groups when he was deputy homeland security secretary under President Barack Obama, said during the hearings that securing targets of right-wing extremists would be a priority, as would combating anti-Semitism. Two new Democratic senators from Georgia, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, will be sworn in by Friday, at which point Democrats will be the majority of senators. It would take 50 senators to end the filibuster, which would not be hard to get to, but the procedure will likely push Mayorkas’ nomination to when the Senate reconvenes, after Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday. However, Hawley may then filibuster the appointment. Most Republicans were ready to push ahead with some nominations, and there were hopes that Mayorkas at least would be in place.Ī senator’s prerogative to block a nominee is an unofficial custom that Senate leadership can overrule. In part because of Trump’s obstructionism, Biden is set to be the first president not to have a single Cabinet official confirmed on his first day. A number of Hawley’s backers have said they will no longer support him because of his role in advancing Trump’s false claim that there was massive election fraud.
Senators were considering Hawley’s objection to the electoral vote count when they fled the chamber as marauders broke into it.Īt least five people died because of the melee. Hundreds among them looted the Capitol and battled police. The insurrectionists were heeding a call by Trump to march on the Capitol to encourage backing for initiatives such as Hawley’s, to overturn the election, based on the fiction that Trump won the election. 20, citing the rise in anti-Semitism and particularly the Jan. During the hearing, Mayorkas said, in reply to Hawley, that he would hew to the law but also would “see what the opportunities are to discontinue any such obligations.” His answer was unexceptional Biden has said he would stop building the wall, which was a centerpiece of outgoing President Donald Trump’s presidency, and any Cabinet member would be expected to seek the legal means of advancing a president’s policies.Īn array of Jewish groups, including the Jewish Federations of North America and the Anti-Defamation League, have taken the unusual step of endorsing Mayorkas, a Cuban-born Jew, and have urged that he be in place by Jan.
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