Only three members of the five-person committee can be from the same party, and while Trump has one Republican nominee awaiting confirmation and a second rumored, Gomez isn’t confident that Trump will eventually move to nominate another Democrat. “I have not seen him nominate a single Democrat to the entire administration. “I can only imagine our general counsel would be very involved in making those decisions,” Gomez says. This is an issue of protecting our democracy and the First Amendment,” she says. “I think it’s important that we speak up and push back, because we can’t let this become the status quo.”