Sen. Ben Cardin, Maryland Democrat and ranking member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, announced Monday he will not support the nomination of Rex Tillerson, who is President Trump’s pick to be the next secretary of state.
Mr. Cardin said that during his confirmation hearing, Mr. Tillerson “was unwilling to characterize Russia and Syria’s atrocities as war crimes, or Philippine President Duterte’s extrajudicial killings as gross human rights violations.”
“And he was not willing to dismiss with unqualified clarity a registry for any ethnic or religious group of Americans,” Mr. Cardin said.
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