Trump’s attorney general pick at risk as Republican refuses to vote for Blanche

Murkowski is concerned that proposed fund to compensate January 6 rioters will proceed despite letter saying it is dead Lisa Murkowski, Alaska’s moderate Republican senator, announced early on Friday that she will not vote for Todd Blanche as US attorney general, leaving his confirmation in the post down to a single remaining vote. Murkowski issued a statement expressing her concerns that the Trump administration could proceed with its proposed fund to compensate rioters who invaded the US Capitol on January 6 in a failed attempt to overturn Joe Biden’s defeat of Trump in the 2020 presidential election. Blanche, Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, is already serving as acting attorney general. Murkowski and Cassidy were among the handful of Republicans who voted to convict Trump after his 2021 impeachment over the January 6 Capitol riot. After the Oval Office meeting, Trump acknowledged the political toll his feuds with GOP holdouts have taken. “Look, I don’t regret it.

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