Blanche’s attorney-general nomination stalls over Trump’s IRS lawsuit – US politics live
It’s befuddling to me,” Cornyn told reporters.“Chairman [Chuck] Grassley works to set president Trump’s nominees up for success in committee, not failure. The US Senate unanimously passed a resolution declaring its opposition to any presidential pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking crimes.
- ▪It’s befuddling to me,” Cornyn told reporters.“Chairman [Chuck] Grassley works to set president Trump’s nominees up for success in committee, not failure.
- ▪The US Senate unanimously passed a resolution declaring its opposition to any presidential pardon for Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime Jeffrey Epstein associate who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex-trafficking crimes.
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7m ago06.29 EDTBlanche attorney-general nomination stalls over Trump IRS lawsuitHello and welcome to the US politics live blog.Todd Blanche’s nomination to become attorney-general stalled last night as lawmakers scrapped a planned committee vote.Key Republicans, senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis, had demanded further assurances about the settlement of president Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).Cornyn and Tillis have demanded additional assurances in writing that the ‘Anti-Weaponization Fund’ is dead and have pressed for clarification on the scope of the tax immunity deal.Cornyn has said he wants the administration to modify that piece of the settlement to make clear that it covers only existing audits and does not protect the president from examination…
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