Blanche’s path to AG clears after Trump fund plan is scrapped
Two GOP senators, Thom Tillis and John Cornyn, say they’ll back Todd Blanche’s attorney general nomination after he formally abandoned Trump’s proposed $1.8 billion ‘anti-weaponisation’ fund to compensate Capitol riot prosecutions, and Blanche issued an signed order declaring there is no fund, paving the way for a Senate Judiciary Committee vote and final confirmation.