Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) will vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general after Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) announced they would not support him.
Cassidy’s support now puts Blanche, the acting attorney general, on a path to be confirmed.
The outgoing Louisiana senator, who lost to a Trump-backed challenger in Louisiana’s Republican Senate primary earlier this year, announced Friday morning on the Senate floor that he will vote for Blanche shortly after they spoke on the phone.
Cassidy said the choice “is between Mr. Blanche and another acting attorney general who may not run the department effectively under President Trump, and who indeed may not be...
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