“The department must champion core American interests and always put America and American citizens first,” Reed Rubinstein testified before a Senate panel.
(March 28, 2025 / JNS) Most eyes were on former governor Mike Huckabee, U.S. President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. envoy to Israel, during a Senate Foreign Relations hearing on Tuesday. But Reed Rubinstein, nominee for legal adviser to oversee some 300 U.S. State Department attorneys and staff, also addressed areas of interest and concern to American Jews and those who care about Israel.
Introducing Rubinstein to the Senate panel, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said that he first met the former deputy associate attorney general in the U.S. Justice Department and former U.S. Education Department general counsel when the two worked together in 2014 on Cruz’s first piece of legislation that passed—a bill that granted Purple Hearts to the victims of the Fort Hood terror attack.
“He is exceptionally well qualified to serve as legal adviser to the State Department with his strong legal background and previous experience,” Cruz said.