Tillis presses Jan. 6 test on Trump’s DOJ nominees

Sen. Thom Tillis uses his one-vote Senate Judiciary Committee edge to demand that any Justice Department nominee explicitly reject the January 6 riot, warning he won’t back anyone who equivocated on the events. He previously facilitated a Warsh vote on Powell’s Fed tenure after a DOJ probe, while vowing to apply a “Martin standard” to future nominees and signaling continued GOP leverage over the Trump administration’s attorney general pick even as he faces retirement.