Blanche meets with possible GOP holdouts as Cassidy warns of 'lawfare' under acting AG
Blanche has already worked to appease Texas Sen. John Cornyn and North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis in the committee phase by providing a written statement saying the so-called Trump IRS Anti-Weaponization Fund had been closed.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday met with a couple of Republican senators who are still on the fence about confirming him as attorney general, including Louisiana's Bill Cassidy, who said he was concerned about "lawfare" under Blanche.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune confirmed Senate Republicans are still working to get the votes necessary to confirm Blanche after Cassidy and Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski said they were still undecided. He needs at least one of their votes to be confirmed.
Blanche has already worked to appease Texas Sen. John Cornyn and North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis in the committee phase by providing a written statement saying the so-called Trump IRS Anti-Weaponization Fund had been closed.
Cassidy told SiriusXM's Steve Scully that he was largely concerned about "lawfare" coming from the Trump administration.
"I’ve got to be convinced that he is an attorney general who just happens to have once been President Trump’s personal attorney, as opposed to President Trump’s personal attorney who is now the attorney general," Cassidy said. "I am very concerned about so-called lawfare — people being prosecuted not for a valid reason beyond somebody in high office being angry at them."
Murkowski has not publicly commented on her dissent regarding Blanche's confirmation, but told NBC News that his decision to sign the order on disbanding the anti-weaponization fund was a "pretty good step." She also said she'd like to find out more about negotiations between Cornyn, Tillis and the Justice Department.
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