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Lawmakers scrap planned committee vote and seek further assurances that president's anti-weaponization fund' is dead Sign up for the US Breaking News email Most Americans say the war in Iran has not been worth fighting and president Donald Trump's approval rating on Iran has fallen slightly since last month, according to a new AP-NORC poll. The results are a stark repudiation of Trump's approach to the conflict, which has dragged on far longer than he originally predicted. Continue...
NPR - 59 min 36 sec agoTodd Blanche's nomination for attorney general is up in the air after concerns from two Republicans on the committee that must advance his nomination.
The postponement comes amid opposition from GOP Sens. John Cornyn and Thom Tillis over Blanche's role in the controversial Trump-IRS settlement.
Republican Senators postponed a vote on Todd Blanche's nomination as attorney general amid concerns over his handling of the Trump-IRS settlement.
This blog is now closed. You can read our latest story here Sign up for US Breaking News email Gary Peters, the Democratic ranking member on the homeland security committee, said that the committee has a long history of bipartisan inquiry and oversight, and the subject matter of risky research and the origins of covid-19 are a legitimate area to study. But today's hearing with Anthony Fauci was not an example of that, Peters said. Continue reading...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) late Wednesday evening canceled a scheduled meeting to consider the nomination of acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to lead the Justice Department amid opposition from some GOP senators on the panel. "Chairman Grassley works to set President Trump's nominees up for success in committee, not failure. Senators Cornyn...
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said Wednesday he is launching a probe into Dr. Anthony Fauci after the longtime health official invoked the Fifth Amendment 100-plus times during a Senate hearing on the COVID-19 pandemic. "Fauci's lack of candor to Congress is unbelievable," Uthmeier wrote on social platform X. "My office is launching an investigation...
In today's edition, we dig into the uncertain paths forward for Todd Blanche's attorney general nomination and the Iran war.
President Trump brushed off concerns that Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) could hold up acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's nomination in the Senate on Wednesday, saying he heard the process is going "quite nicely. "I don't know what it is, but I haven't heard that there's a problem. I've heard he's going through quite nicely," Trump...
Republican John Cornyn says he will not back nomination without written confirmation $1.8bn slush fund is dead Todd Blanche's hopes of becoming US attorney general seemed to be in jeopardy on Wednesday after the Department of Justice did not provide written assurances to a key Republican senator that a $1.8bn slush fund was dead. The US Senate judiciary committee will hold a vote on Thursday on whether to advance Blanche's nomination. Continue reading...
WASHINGTON Todd Blanche's path to confirmation as the next attorney general of the United States faced a setback Wednesday as two key Republicans pressed the Justice Department to commit in writing to kill an "anti-weaponization" fund that could give money to Trump allies and restrict the scope of the tax audit immunity given to the president and his family members.
The Senate unanimously agreed Wednesday that Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted sex offender and collaborator of Jeffrey Epstein, should not be allowed a presidential pardon or clemency of any kind. The resolution was brought by Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), who said it was to prevent acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, whom President Trump nominated to stay...
ABC News - 16 hours 12 min agoOne day before the Senate Judiciary Committee is to vote on Todd Blanche's nomination for attorney general, his future remains uncertain.
Even as senators pressed Todd Blanche on the status of the Trump administration's $1.776 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund," an anti-abortion activist pardoned by President Trump acknowledged that he has collected a seven-figure settlement from the Justice Department. The payment illustrates how allies like Paul Vaughn, whom the attorney general nominee...
Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, cannot afford to lose a single Republican vote.
xAI has a novel argument for why it should get to keep building tools that digitally undress people. The First Amendment. Elon Musk's AI company, now owned by SpaceX, sued Minnesota's attorney general on Monday, CBS News first reported. It wants a federal court to strike down the first US law banning "nudification" technology. The […] This story continues at The Next Web...
ABC News - 18 hours 36 min agoA planned vote this week to advance Todd Blanche's nomination for attorney general appears in doubt...
Sen. John Cornyn says the DOJ has failed to satisfy his concerns about a deal to shield President Donald Trump and others from IRS tax audits.
Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, has said the Justice Department dropped its plan for a $1.8 billion fund to pay purported victims of government weaponization, but the department can make such payouts even without a formal fund structure.
Todd Blanche's confirmation as attorney general could fail to move forward if even one Republican senator opposes him.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) on Wednesday said his scheduled meeting with attorney general nominee Todd Blanche was canceled and that he's "not prepared to vote yes" on advancing Blanche out of the Judiciary Committee Thursday. Cornyn, who has been pressing for a resolution to a controversial Department of Justice "anti-weaponization" fund, told reporters that Senate...
A planned vote to move forward with Todd Blanche's nomination for attorney general appeared in doubt Wednesday as a key Republican senator demanded more assurances from the Justice Department about the settlement of President Trump's lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service. GOP Sen. John Cornyn, a crucial swing vote, called...
Ken Paxton, attorney general of Texas, is the Republican nominee for Senate there but has struggled to raise money.
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