{"id":31429,"date":"2026-08-07T19:58:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=31429"},"modified":"2026-08-07T19:58:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T14:58:46","slug":"just-in-sen-bill-cassidy-reveals-his-decision-on-todd-blanches-bid-for-u-s-attorney-general-in-dramatic-moment-from-senate-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=31429","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Sen. Bill Cassidy Reveals His Decision on Todd Blanche\u2019s bid for U.S. Attorney General in Dramatic Moment from Senate Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5661220\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5661220\" class=\"wp-image-5661220 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/am12.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AP25247660100761.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5661220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aaron Schwartz\/Sipa USA via AP Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sen. <strong>Bill Cassidy<\/strong> (R-LA) said he will vote to confirm Todd Blanche for U.S. Attorney General n a dramatic moment on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Blanche is not perfect and he will tell you this,&#8221; Cassidy said. &#8220;But the choice is not between Mr. Blanche and perfection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added, &#8220;I will be criticized&#8230; but what&#8217;s new.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The senator, a doctor who infamously questioned <strong>Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s<\/strong> appointment at Health and Human Services Secretary before voting to confirm his appointment to the post, declared earlier this week he was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/gop-senator-says-hes-worried-about-lawfare-under-todd-blanche-who-can-only-afford-to-lose-one-more-vote\/\"> concerned about &#8220;lawfare&#8221;<\/a> under Blanche&#8217;s leadership at the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SenBillCassidy\/status\/2085727723670917596\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement<\/a> came Friday just hours after Sen. <strong>Lisa Murkowski<\/strong> (R-AK) posted on X that she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/key-gop-senator-makes-decision-on-todd-blanche-nomination-no-telling-what-the-future-holds\/\">would oppose Blanche&#8217;s nomination.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Murkowski described Blanche as &#8220;decent and capable&#8221; but insisted she would not back his bid to become U.S. Attorney General for a number of reasons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The politicization\u2014even weaponization\u2014of the Department did not start with this administration but has accelerated during it,&#8221; she wrote in her post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I take issue with the handling of the release of the Epstein files; the sweeping immunity protections granted to the President, his family, and their businesses; the statements that have been made to anti-abortion groups; and the repeated targeting of individuals ranging from former administration staff to sitting U.S. Senators.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am also keenly aware that the Department\u2019s nearly $2-billion dollar slush fund\u2014which likely would have rewarded January 6 protesters\u2014is only off the table because this nomination is pending and the Senate has leverage. Once we vote, that will end, and there is no telling what the future holds,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p>The nomination of Blanche, Trump&#8217;s former personal lawyer, as U.S. Attorney General has sparked a lengthy back and forth between the president and Senators <strong>John Cornyn<\/strong> (R-TX) and <strong>Thom Tillis<\/strong> (R-NC), both of whom opposed Blanche while the decision rested at the committee level.<\/p>\n<p>The unusual Republican opposition prompted Trump to repeatedly lash out at the pair.<\/p>\n<p>Cornyn, who lost his re-election bid after Trump backed primary opponent <strong>Ken Paxton<\/strong> (R), and Tillis, who is retiring,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tv\/breaking-senate-committee-advances-todd-blanche-nomination-after-gop-holdouts-back-down\/\"> folded after<\/a> Blanche pledged to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tv\/todd-blanche-scraps-trumps-1-8b-anti-weaponization-fund-days-before-senate-vote\/\">end the president&#8217;s $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Critics said Blanche&#8217;s assurances were not a written guarantee of the fund&#8217;s demise.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/just-in-sen-bill-cassidy-reveals-his-decision-on-todd-blanches-bid-for-u-s-attorney-general-in-dramatic-moment-from-senate-floor\/\">JUST IN: Sen. 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