Senate judiciary committee has announced the date for its confirmation hearing for Chris Wray, President Donald Trump's pick for the new Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director, the media reported.
The hearing is slated to take place on July 12 and would come more than two months after Trump fired James Comey as head of the FBI, reports CNN. The Senate Judiciary Committee, led by Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, followed up its hearing announcement on Wednesday by tweeting the timelines for previous FBI Director confirmations.
The table notes that the confirmations under committees chaired by Democrats had moved nominees forward to the full Senate after less than 10 days. Trump announced Wray's nomination in early June and sent forward the nomination three weeks later, near the end of the month. Since Comey's ouster, Andrew McCabe has served as the acting FBI Director.
Wray is a partner at the law firm King & Spalding, and as a criminal defense lawyer recently represented New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie during the federal investigation into politically motivated lane closures of the George Washington Bridge known as "Bridgegate." King & Spalding also represent Gazprom and Rosneft, both of which are Russian state-controlled oil companies. There is no indication Wray worked on legal matters for Gazprom or Rosneft.
Wray is a Yale graduate who spent eight years at the Justice Department.