Governor Josh Shapiro’s nominees for State Police Commissioner and Attorney General passed unanimously through state Senate committees Monday, paving their way for confirmation before the full Senate.
The Senate Law & Justice Committee voted to advance the nomination of Christopher Paris to lead the Pennsylvania State Police, and the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance the nomination of Michelle Henry as the state’s Attorney General – although with some politically-charged questions for Henry from Republican members.
Paris joined the Pennsylvania State Police in 1999 and worked his way through positions at several barracks throughout the state, and was most recently a regional commander. He is a graduate of the University of Scranton as well as Temple University Law School. A graduate of Allegheny College and Widener University School of Law, Henry spent over two decades with the Bucks County District Attorney’s office, eventually rising to the top role as Bucks County DA. She went on to become the state’s First Deputy Attorney General under Shapiro.
A Commonwealth Court judge earlier this year turned down a suit by Republicans on the Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee to force the Department of State to hand over records, saying the Senate had subpoena authority it had not yet used, according to a recent report from Spotlight PA. Democrats are in the process of appealing the matter, according to Sen. Art Haywood, D-Philadelphia, who encouraged Henry to “leave it up to the Supreme Court to decide, not the Senate Judiciary Committee.”
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