Before winning a presidential nomination for one of the four U.S. Attorney positions in Texas, a candidate must first meet with a committee of 35 lawyers who vet applicants for the state’s two Republican senators, John Cornyn and Ted Cruz.
So it wasn’t much of a surprise recently when President Donald Trump nominated Erin Nealy Cox to be the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. A former federal prosecutor who is currently a senior adviser at a cybersecurity firm, Cox served as a member the senators’ Federal Judicial Evaluation Committee (FJEC) until she resigned to apply for the U.S. Attorney position. And she’s not the only FJEC member to make that move.
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