President Trump on Tuesday officially tapped Eugene Scalia, son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to be his administration’s next secretary of labor.
The president forecast his nomination of Scalia last month, just days after former labor secretary Alexander Acosta resigned on July 12 amid criticism of his kid-gloved handling of Florida prostitution charges against the late accused pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
“Gene has led a life of great success in the legal and labor field and is highly respected not only as a lawyer, but as a lawyer with great experience working with labor and everyone else,” Trump wrote Tuesday in a pair of tweets announcing his decision. “He will be a great member of an Administration that has done more in the first 2 ½ years than perhaps any Administration in history!”
Scalia is a partner at corporate law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and was a top lawyer for George W. Bush’s Labor Department.
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