Last week, President Joe Biden announced his nomination for Damien Diggs to serve as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, which covers 43 of the state’s 254 counties including Anderson County and runs from Plano to Beaumont. If confirmed, Diggs would become the first Black U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas.
United States Attorneys are the chief federal law enforcement officers in their judicial district. The choices they make about which cases to prosecute, the charges to pursue, and what plea bargains to accept can dramatically affect the implementation and efficacy of federal law within their jurisdiction and these decisions are not politically driven.
This nomination of Diggs has been answered favorably by U.S. Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, who worked together on a bipartisan Federal Judicial Evaluation Committee and recommended Diggs for the job.
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