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Todd Blanche just lost another Republican senator's vote: 'Simply do not have confidence’
Blanche’s Trouble Is Not About One Nominee. It Is About Who Owns the DOJ.A Crack in the ShieldLisa Murkowski’s refusal to back Todd Blanche is the first real sign that the Senate may still have a little leverage left over the Trump machine. The immediate trigger is the Epstein file handling, but the deeper issue is simpler: Blanche is being judged as the face of a Department of Justice that has already been turned into an instrument of presidential protection and political retaliation.That is the story here. Not a procedural hiccup. Not a personality clash. A power struggle over whether the…
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