Cornyn, Tillis Will Vote to Advance Blanche’s Nomination for Attorney General
But will Cornyn and Tillis vote to confirm him? Who knows.
Republican Sens. John Cornyn (TX) and Thom Tillis (NC) announced they will vote to advance Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s nomination to the Senate floor.
“We want to express our gratitude to Mr. Blanche and his staff for working with us on this, and we look forward to voting to advance his nomination out of the Senate Judiciary Committee soon,” the senators said in a joint statement.
The Senate Judiciary Committee canceled last Thursday’s vote to advance the nomination after Cornyn and Tillis voiced opposition.
Cornyn and Tillis sought assurances regarding an IRS settlement involving President Donald Trump.
Trump even said he would consider temporarily withdrawing Blanche’s nomination until after Cornyn and Tillis leave office in January.
Late Sunday night, Blanche disclosed that he withdrew the Anti-Weaponization Fund.
The two senators also revealed the DOJ limited the scope of the audit settlement by not extending “beyond the defendants in the lawsuit.”
“Sen. Cornyn has reached an agreement with the Department of Justice, which will be issuing a formal order permanently terminating the anti-weaponization fund and making clear in a binding written document that the scope of the audit settlement is limited to only the plaintiffs, including the President, and the IRS,” confirmed Natalie Yezbick, Cornyn’s spokesperson.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on Blanche during an early Tuesday meeting.
But will Cornyn and Tillis vote for Blanche on the Senate floor? I have my doubts about Tillis, who kept changing the goalposts.
In April, he threatened not to vote for Trump’s pick if they watered down the January 6 investigation.
Next, Tillis warned Blanche he wouldn’t vote for him until he met with survivors of Jeffrey Epstein.
Then Tillis made it all about the IRS settlement. What’s next with this guy? I’m sure he’ll find something to dig up during the confirmation vote.
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I wouldn’t trust them.
Chic alors…! But will they?
Only because Trump called their bluff and was willing to wait them out.
Now they have to have an actual confirmation vote so they can vote it down and claim Trump can’t re-nominate him again.
Oh, come on. A Republican would not do anything this unethical, right?
Since when? Of course he can renominate him, if he thinks this time it’ll go through.
Then Tillis made it all about the IRS settlement. What’s next with this guy? I’m sure he’ll find something to dig up during the confirmation vote.
1. Do you promise not to prosecute Somalis?
2. Do you promise not to investigate Democrats?
3. Do you promise to support Judge Boasberg’s decisions?
4. Do you promise to support Trump’s impeachment?
They need to wheel in ole Mitch for one last vote.
Isn’t that why the powers that be created Zoom and tele-voting for times like this?
The senate never had tele-voting.
I remember Pelosi used it once, maybe twice. If video- and voice-assisted virtual technology is basically everywhere and schools use it all the time, why doesn’t the Senate use it too?
The House used it, to great controversy. The senate never did. The constitution requires congressmen to vote; it makes no provision for voting by proxy, so what the House did was of dubious legality. It only survived because the constitution basically lets each house do whatever it likes, and everyone else has to pretend it did whatever it says it did. So if the Speaker says we had a vote and the majority passed this bill, it doesn’t matter if she’s lying, everyone else in the government, including the courts, have to pretend to believe her.
The Big Government, Big Business wing of the GOP hates Trump and the American middle class and working class even more intensely than the loony Democrats.
Which is one reason you see the neocon, corporate cronyism county club types desperately trying to gin up reasons to torpedo a possible Vance campaign before we even get past the midterm.
In terms of center/right populism; putting the direct interest of the broad middle-class (the center 70% of US Citizens) ahead of the interests of our ‘allies’, globalist corporations, the concerns of ‘world opinion’ …a Vance Presidency will make Trump 2.0 seem like a warm-up session before the real work begins. The establishment writ large is deathly and very correctly afraid that a Vance Presidency will overturn their precious ‘consensus wisdom’ and remove their snouts from the trough by reordering our priorities in practice and effect v mere promises.
Both Vance and Rubio are part of the globalist team. The neocons will live on.
So they’re telling Trump that he cannot use the funds he won from his lawsuit in any way he sees fit. Perhaps they think this will satisfy the leftist hyenas baying for his blood because of an alleged “collusive settlement” – the Democrat’s favorite tool.
But isn’t money fungible?
What’s next with this guy, Tillis, you ask? The man is not as incorrigible as he makes himself out to be. I suspect he wants or is trying to lineup a payout for himself on his way out the door.
You are overlooking the fact that Tillis is a natural born complete A-hole and requires no rational plan to behave the way he does.
he is doing whatever the dem donor class wants so he can get that seat on a board of directors …
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