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For all their hesitancy about confirming Blanche, Cornyn and Tillis had no issue backing partisan picks made by Democrat presidents.

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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is facing two potential bumps on the road to full-time confirmation. And their names are John Cornyn and Thom Tillis.

Over the past several days, reporting broke indicating the two Republican senators — who are both members of the Senate Judiciary Committee — have trepidation about advancing Blanche’s nomination to the Senate floor. While slated to consider his nomination on Thursday, the committee postponed a vote on Blanche’s AG bid by a week, as “per standard committee practice,” according to a representative for Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.

The reporting suggests that Cornyn and Tillis’ indecision stems from concerns over government “weaponization.” Naturally, they aren’t worried about Democrat weaponization of government, but potential unfavorable actions from a Blanche-led Justice Department.

The outgoing senators are emphatically opposed to the administration’s previously floated $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund for victims of Democrat lawfare. In the case of Tillis, the North Carolina Republican is supposedly worried about a weaponized Trump DOJ and even went as far as to compare the Biden administration’s DOJ weaponization to team Trump’s bid to achieve accountability for such abuse.

Yet for all their hesitancy about supporting Blanche’s AG nomination, Cornyn and Tillis seemingly had no problem backing several highly partisan nominees put forward by Democrat presidents — some of whom would go on to abuse their positions to target their political opposition.

A trip down memory lane shows that both GOP senators supported numerous controversial figures nominated by President Joe Biden. This includes voting for Merrick Garland to be attorney general; Antony Blinken to be secretary of state; Pete........

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