Sen. Ron Johnson said on Tuesday that he wouldn't support the president's nominee to be a federal prosecutor in Wisconsin because she posted that he was a political partisan.
Shah chimed in on the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection, and Johnson said he wouldn't support Shah for the U.S. attorney position.
The reason we have a two-tiered system is because our justice system is increasingly populated with political partisans who can't administer justice equally. As a result, I will not support her nomination.
According to an archive of her post, Shah responded to reports of someone being shot inside the Capitol by saying, "This is terrorism."
After Johnson said those who objected to the 2020 presidential election results and Trump did not bear responsibility for the attack, Wisconsin will teach her about accountability in 2022.
Shah said she was confident that Johnson didn't know how law worked.
During the investigation of the House select committee probing the insurrection, one of Johnson's aides contacted a staff member for Vice President Mike Pence in order to give him fake election certificates for Michigan and Wisconsin.
Johnson denied doing anything wrong.
Shah didn't reply to a request from The Hill.
The Wisconsin State Journal reported that Baldwin and Johnson supported Shah's nomination last year.
Baldwin said that Johnson was disrespecting the work of the nominating commission and abusing the Blue Slip process to play his own personal politics about the 2020 election that Trump lost.
Judicial nominees are usually nominated through a blue slip process in which they need the support of their home state senators in order to be confirmed.
The Hill asked the White House if Shah's nomination would move forward.
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