Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) on Sunday left the door open to not backing acting Attorney General Todd Blanche if he is nominated to the official post over his position on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
Last month, the Department of Justice (DOJ) under Blanche filed a motion to vacate the seditious conspiracy convictions of members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys groups that took part in the attack.
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'Both parties' at fault in weakening Congress's war powers: Schiff
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Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff (Calif.) said Sunday that both parties are to blame for Congress not asserting its authority to declare war over the last two decades.
“Both parties have fallen down on the job in terms of asserting Congress's war power,” Schiff told host Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
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Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) on Sunday slammed the Supreme Court for striking down Louisiana’s congressional maps this week, arguing the national redistricting push is allowing lawmakers to choose their voters rather than upholding the democratic process.
“Gerrymandering turns our elections on its head, so that rather than the people picking their politicians or their public servants, the politicians are picking their voters,” Warnock said on CBS News's “Face the Nation.”
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Sunday that the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey did not solely result from an Instagram post depicting seashells forming the numbers 86-47.
“Rest assured that the career assistant United States attorneys in North Carolina, the career FBI agents, the career Secret Service agents that investigated this case didn’t just look at the Instagram post and walk away,” Blanche told host Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
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Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, affirmed Sunday that the bullet that hit a Secret Service agent at last weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was fired by the alleged gunman.
Pirro told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union” that prosecutors have video of the suspect, 31-year-old Cole Allen, shooting at the Secret Service officer, and the officer himself confirmed that he was shot.
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Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch said the Supreme Court system is “working” in a Sunday interview where he reflected on the country’s founding principles.
Gorsuch joined Fox News’s Shannon Bream on "Fox News Sunday" to discuss his new book, "Heroes of 1776: The Story of the Declaration of Independence," co-authored with Janie Nitze.
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Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.) on Sunday expressed reservations about the prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey.
“If this whole case is based on a picture in the sand of a North Carolina beach, it again makes no sense to me,” Tillis told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
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Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Sunday said the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) lost about 1,100 employees over the course of the partial government shutdown this year.
DHS was closed for 76 days over a Democratic-led push for federal immigration reform after the killings of two U.S. citizens in Minnesota by federal immigration officers. The record breaking shuttering began Feb. 14 and ended Thursday.
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Schiff: DOJ prosecuting Comey because Blanche 'wants to keep this job'
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Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Sunday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) sought another grand jury indictment of James Comey because acting Attorney General Todd Blanche wants to stay in the post full-time.
Schiff told host Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the DOJ sought the indictment, which a grand jury in the Eastern District of North Carolina returned on Tuesday, because Comey is a “political opponent” of President Trump.
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Hassett says he was ‘very involved’ in potential Spirit bailout, says legal team ruled out a lifeline
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White House National Economic Council (NEC) Director Kevin Hassett on Sunday said he was “very involved” in the Trump administration’s potential plan to bailout Spirit from financial despair but said legal teams ruled out the possibility of a lifeline for the company.
“It’s something that I was very much involved in. We were aware that, because the merger between JetBlue and Spirit was canceled unwisely by the Biden administration, that Spirit, sadly, was on the ropes,” Hassett said during a Sunday appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
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John Bolton: US 'hasn't finished the job' in Iran
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Former White House national security adviser John Bolton said Sunday that the U.S. “hasn’t finished the job” in the conflict against Iran, which just recently passed the two-month mark.
“Well, it’s anybody's guess at this point, I think the United States holds a great advantage here, but it hasn't finished the job that was started,” Bolton told NewsNation’s Chris Stirewalt on “The Hill Sunday.”
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