Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) is calling on Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Jay Clayton to withdraw his name from consideration …
Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N. Y.) is calling on Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Jay Clayton to withdraw his name from consideration to be the U. S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
“Forty seven years ago, Elliott Richardson had the courage to say no to a gross abuse of presidential power. Jay Clayton has a similar choice today: He can allow himself to be used in the brazen Trump-Barr scheme to interfere in investigations by the U. S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, or he can stand up to this corruption, withdraw his name from consideration, and save his own reputation from overnight ruin, » Schumer said in a statement.
Attorney General Bill Barr announced on Friday night that Clayton would be nominated for the position and that the current U.
