1. Sean David Reyes was born on February 16,1971 and is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the Attorney General of Utah from 2013 to 2025.
28 Facts About Sean Reyes
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Sean Reyes is a member of the Republican Party and is a vocal and longtime supporter of Donald Trump.
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Sean Reyes 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.
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Sean Reyes's mother was of half-Native Hawaiian and half-Japanese descent.
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Sean Reyes is a great-nephew of former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay.
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Sean Reyes graduated from University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in 1997.
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Sean Reyes later became general counsel for eTAGz, a Springville, Utah-based media and technology company that aimed to develop products for embedding digital files on packaging.
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Sean Reyes was a partner and co-founder of the venture capital firm Accelerate Ventures, a state small claims court judge, and president of the Minority Bar Association.
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Sean Reyes ran for state Attorney General in 2012 against Deputy state Attorney General John Swallow.
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Sean Reyes lost the primary election by a margin of 68 to 32 percent.
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Sean Reyes won with 63.06 percent of the vote over his Democratic challenger, Charles A Stormont, and Libertarian candidate Andrew McCullough.
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Sean Reyes' representatives indicated in response to these reports that the contributions had been placed in escrow.
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Immediately after taking office, Reyes appealed US District Judge Robert J Shelby's ruling that struck down Amendment 3, the state's same-sex marriage ban.
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In 2020, after the New York Attorney General sued the National Rifle Association of America, asserting that Wayne LaPierre and other NRA officials unlawfully misappropriated NRA funds for personal expenses and self-enrichment, Sean Reyes joined Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge in filing an amicus brief challenging the New York suit.
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Sean Reyes asserted that the New York AG was discriminating against the NRA.
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Sean Reyes is a vocal and longtime supporter of Donald Trump.
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In late-January 2017, Sean Reyes was named as a top candidate for the chairmanship of the Federal Trade Commission by officials in the Trump administration.
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Sean Reyes praised Trump in a speech at the 2020 Republican National Convention, and Trump endorsed him in his 2020 primary.
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Sean Reyes was named Utah state co-chairman of Trump's reelection campaign.
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In September 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Sean 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.
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In November 2020, Sean 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.
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Sean Reyes claimed that "voting irregularities" occurred but never provided any evidence for this claim.
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Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford noted that there was no evidence of voter fraud in the 2020 Nevada elections, stated that Sean Reyes had not returned his telephone calls or text messages, and termed his conduct "disrespectful" to Nevada.
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In December 2020, Sean Reyes joined a group of 16 other Republican state attorneys general in a failed lawsuit to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
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On November 27,2023, Sean Reyes was named in a new lawsuit related to witness tampering.
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The lawsuit alleged that Sean Reyes was using his authority to "unconstitutionally suppress" free speech.
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Sean Reyes wrote himself into the show, where he called himself one of the Republican Party's top four rising stars and potential White House material.
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The Utah State Records Committee ruled the calendar must be released, but Sean Reyes argued that release of private work and personal information would present a security risk.