Josh Hawley, the baby-faced 39-year-old freshman senator from Missouri, has already emerged as perhaps the single most interesting member of the Republican caucus. At minimum, Hawley — whose legal background includes Yale Law School, a U.S. Supreme Court clerkship, and stints as a constitutional law professor and attorney general of Missouri — has solidified his stature as the most intriguing conservative to burst onto the Senate scene since fellow firebrand Ted Cruz’s infamous no-holds-barred bellicosity upended the staid chamber in 2013.
Specifically, Hawley has emerged as the only Republican member of the prestigious Senate Judiciary Committee who is deeply committed to vetting the White House counsel’s office proffered judicial nominees — and not merely blankly accepting the White House’s word on the alleged propriety of those nominees.
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