Republicans online are raging at two turncoat red-state Senators who are obstructing the confirmation of Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to take on the role permanently after just a few years ago endorsing and voting for former President Joe Biden's pick for the same position.Outgoing Sens.John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., have both vowed not to confirm Blanche, despite backing former Attorney General Merrick Garland when Biden tapped him for the role.
At the time of Garland's confirmation, both Republican senators characterized the polarizing figure as experienced and bipartisan, and swore he would be a responsible leader of Department of Justice (DOJ).But during Biden's presidency, Garland oversaw a DOJ that twice indicted Trump, prosecuted pro-life activists under an obscure federal law and investigated traditional Catholics as potential violent extremists, all moves that conservative critics argue were politically motivated.Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is sworn in during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.(Win McNamee/Getty Images)TRUMP THREATENS TO YANK HIS OWN AG NOMINEE AS GOP REVOLT GROWSThe perceived hypocrisy in Cornyn and Tillis was not lost on online critics who raged against their move to block Blanche for ascending to the Attorney General post as Trump threatened to pull his nomination until after the two Republicans are out of office in January."Both Tillis and Cornyn voted to confirm Garland and then sat back idly as a weaponized DOJ/FBI destroyed lives for purely partisan reasons," said Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project.
"The Anti-Weaponization Fund would begin to right the wrongs and that is why they oppose Todd Blanche.Pitiful."Columnist Mark Davis also recalled the pair voting for Garland."As John Cornyn and Thom Tillis high-five each other in their attempt to block Trump’s AG pick Todd Blanche, never forget that they both voted to confirm ...