{"id":3579,"date":"2026-08-18T02:14:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3579"},"modified":"2026-08-18T02:14:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T06:14:56","slug":"senate-judiciary-republicans-advance-blanche-nomination-co-signing-his-scandalous-record-at-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3579","title":{"rendered":"Senate Judiciary Republicans Advance Blanche Nomination, Co-Signing His Scandalous Record at DOJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Today, Republicans on the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary voted to advance Todd Blanche\u2019s nomination to be U.S. Attorney General to the full Senate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stand Up America\u2019s Managing Director of Policy &amp; Political Affairs, Brett Edkins, issued the following statement on Blanche\u2019s confirmation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery Senate Judiciary Republican just endorsed Todd Blanche\u2019s extreme agenda for the Department of Justice: politically motivated prosecutions of the president\u2019s perceived enemies, defending and giving taxpayer-funded settlements to January 6th insurrectionists, burying the Epstein files, and shielding Trump and his family from the IRS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow it\u2019s up to the full Senate. Are there still Republicans willing to stand up to the president\u2014willing to say they\u2019re against weaponizing the Justice Department, against shielding Trump and his family from accountability, and against protecting predators in the Epstein files? The Senate doesn\u2019t need unanimous courage to block Blanche\u2014it needs a few Republicans willing to put country over party.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Republicans on the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary voted to advance Todd Blanche\u2019s nomination to be U.S. Attorney General to the full Senate. Stand Up America\u2019s Managing Director of Policy &amp; Political Affairs, Brett Edkins, issued the following statement on Blanche\u2019s confirmation: \u201cEvery Senate Judiciary Republican just endorsed Todd Blanche\u2019s extreme agenda for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}