Sen. Tom Cotton R-Ark., and Rep. Lloyd Smucker, R-Pa., are calling on the Justice Department Inspector General to investigate U.S. Attorney Jacqueline Romero for alleged retaliation against one of her deputies, who had worked on the Hunter Biden probe.

Romero is the U.S. attorney for the eastern district of Pennsylvania.

“After the AUSA was temporarily detailed to the Hunter Biden investigation, and even though the AUSA remained an employee of the Philadelphia U.S. Attorney’s Office, Ms. Romero revoked the AUSA’s office access,” they said in a letter to Michael Horowitz, the DOJ’s inspector general, referring to the assistant U.S. attorney.

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