Sean David Reyes (born February 16, 1971)[1] is an American lawyer and politician who has been the Attorney General of Utah since 2013. Appointed to the office by Governor Gary Herbert following the resignation of John Swallow, Reyes was reelected. Reyes is a member of the Republican Party and is a vocal and longtime supporter of Donald Trump. He has served as a county, state, and national delegate for the Republican Party and a member of the Utah Republican Party's State Central Committee.
Reyes spent 14 years working at Utah's largest law firm, Parsons Behle & Latimer,[6] where he became the first person of color to become a partner.[7] He practiced commercial litigation and employment law.[5] He later became general counsel for eTAGz, a Springville, Utah-based media and technology company[8] that aimed to develop products for embedding digital files on packaging.[6] He was also a partner and co-founder of the venture capital firm Accelerate Ventures,[9] a state small claims court judge,[10] and president of the Minority Bar Association.[10]
Utah Attorney General
Elections
Reyes ran for state Attorney General in 2012 against Deputy state Attorney General John Swallow. He lost the primary election by a margin of 68 to 32 percent.[11] After Swallow resigned amid scandal in December 2013,[6] Reyes was selected by the Utah Republican Party State Central Committee as one of three candidates to fill the vacancy (on December 14, 2013), and Utah GovernorGary Herbert appointed Reyes to the position (on December 23, 2013).[12]
Because of Utah's election laws, Reyes had to run in the 2014 Utah elections to be elected to finish out the remainder of Swallow's term.[13] He won with 63.06 percent of the vote over his Democratic challenger, Charles A. Stormont, and Libertarian candidate Andrew McCullough.[14]
In 2016, members of the Latter Day Church of Christ, a Mormon fundamentalist denomination, donated to Reyes' campaign for attorney general individually and through Washakie Renewable Energy, a business partially owned by members of the LDCC. Reyes' representatives indicated in response to these reports that the contributions had been placed in escrow.[15]
In 2020, Reyes ran for a third term. He was challenged for the Republican nomination by Utah CountyAttorney David Leavitt,[16] but won the Republican renomination in the July 2020 primary election with 54.04% of the vote.[17] In the November 2020 general election, Reyes was reelected, defeating Democratic nominee Greg Skordas.[18]
Reyes is a vocal and longtime supporter of Donald Trump.[31] In late-January 2017, Reyes was named as a top candidate for the chairmanship of the Federal Trade Commission by officials in the Trump administration.[32] He praised Trump in a speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention,[31] and Trump endorsed him in his 2020 primary.[18] Reyes was also named Utah state co-chairman of Trump's reelection campaign.[31] In September 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Reyes appeared in the front row of an indoor Trump rally in Nevada, without social distancing from other attendees and without wearing a face mask, garnering criticism.[33]
In November 2020, Reyes took several days leave to go to Nevada in a bid to bolster the Trump campaign's claims of purported voter fraud in neighboring Nevada. Reyes claimed that "voting irregularities" occurred but never provided any evidence for this claim.[30][34]Nevada Attorney GeneralAaron Ford noted that there was no evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 Nevada elections, stated that Reyes had not returned his telephone calls or text messages, and termed his conduct "disrespectful" to Nevada.[30][34] A number of Utah officials, as well as the United Utah Party, criticized Reyes for baselessly undermining faith in the democratic process without evidence.[34]
In December 2020, Reyes joined a group of 16 other Republican state attorneys general in a failed lawsuit to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. His participation in the suit was criticized by the outgoing Utah Governor, Gary Herbert, and his successor, Lieutenant Governor and Governor-electSpencer Cox.[35][36] Utahns created a petition calling for Reyes's recall.[37][38] The suit, which attempted to invoke the U.S. Supreme Court's original jurisdiction, was brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, against Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania, four swing states in which Joe Biden defeated Trump. The suit repeated Trump's false and disproven claims that the election was marred by widespread voter fraud. Such assertions by Trump and his allies had already been rejected in other state and federal courts. Paxton asked the Supreme Court to invalidate the states' 62 electoral votes, allowing Trump to be declared the winner.[39][40][41][42][43][44] Legal experts stated that the suit was meritless.[45][46] Election law expert Rick Hasen described the lawsuit as "the dumbest case I've ever seen filed on an emergency basis at the Supreme Court."[47][48] Nebraska Republican Senator Ben Sasse said the situation of Paxton initiating the lawsuit "looks like a fella begging for a pardon filed a PR stunt"; at the time he brought the suit, Paxton was facing a federal securities fraud charge and allegations of abuse of office allegations).[49] On December 11, the U.S. Supreme Court quickly rejected the suit which Reyes had joined, in an unsigned opinion.[50]
Personal life
Reyes and his wife Saysha have six children.[51][52]
Attorney General Reyes appeared as himself in three episodes of A&E network’s The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch. His first appearance was in 2020's S1.E8 "Revelations." Reyes later appears twice in 2023: S4.E4 "The Watchers"and S4.E12 "In and Out,"[53]
Controversy
On November 14, 2023, the Utah Legislature authorized a formal audit of Sean Reyes.[54] A bipartisan group of legislators stated they are concerned with Reyes’ relationship with Tim Ballard and Operation Underground Railroad. The letter directly asks the audit committee to investigate four different areas, including Reyes’ travel practices and procedures, the culture of the Attorney General’s office, the government of the office, and if Reyes’ involvement with Operation Underground Railroad impaired his judgment or misused state resources. This audit request came shortly after a separate lawsuit claimed Sean Reyes's intimidated witnesses related to an OUR investigation.[55]
On November 27, 2023, Reyes was named in a new lawsuit related to witness tampering.[56] The lawsuit alleges that Reyes was using his authority to "unconstitutionally suppress" free speech. In addition, the lawsuit mentions Reyes was a ghostwriter for a potential sequel to Sounds of Freedom. Reyes wrote himself into the show, where he calls himself one of the Republican Party's top four rising stars and potential White House material. Concerns include Reyes' potential conflict of interest. At one time, Reyes' job title on Linked in was updated to "Associate Producer, Sound of Freedom,' then reverted to "Utah Attorney General.[57]
In November 2023, the Utah Attorney's General's office confirmed that AG Reyes knew Operation Underground Railroad (OUR) used donations to retain a psychic, Janet Russon,[58][59] to find missing and/or dead children. His office issued a statement that Utah law enforcement does not engage psychics but that they “sometimes provide useful information.”[60]
In 2023, Utah media outlets KSL TV and the Salt Lake Tribune sued for access to Reyes' official calendar.[61] The Utah State Records Committee ruled the calendar must be released,[61] but Reyes argues that release of private work and personal information would present a security risk. The lawsuit is pending as of January 2024.[62]
^Revelations, The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch, Linda Moulton Howe, Brandon Fugal, Travis Taylor, June 2, 2020, retrieved February 9, 2024{{citation}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
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