Senate confirms Daniel Burrows 52-46 to lead DOJ Office of Legal Policy

The Senate confirmed Daniel Burrows as Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy on February 10, 2026 by a 52–46 vote. Burrows, a former chief deputy attorney general of Kansas and White House deputy staff secretary since January 2025, will lead the Office of Legal Policy — the DOJ division that vets federal judicial nominations and crafts legal policy positions. His confirmation gives the Trump administration direct control over the judicial selection pipeline heading into an expected cycle of district and circuit court vacancies.