{"id":76730,"date":"2026-07-29T20:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T01:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/trumps-pick-for-us-attorney-general-todd-blanche-in-jeopardy-as-vote-postponed\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T20:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T01:54:48","slug":"trumps-pick-for-us-attorney-general-todd-blanche-in-jeopardy-as-vote-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/trumps-pick-for-us-attorney-general-todd-blanche-in-jeopardy-as-vote-postponed\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s pick for US attorney general Todd Blanche in jeopardy as vote postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican John Cornyn says he will not back nomination without written confirmation $1.8bn slush fund is dead<\/p>\n<p>Todd Blanche\u2019s hopes of becoming US attorney general seemed to be in jeopardy on Wednesday after the Department of Justice did not provide written assurances to a key Republican senator that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/02\/trump-weaponization-fund\">$1.8bn slush fund<\/a> was dead.<\/p>\n<p>The US Senate judiciary committee postponed a vote scheduled for Thursday on whether to advance Blanche\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/29\/todd-blanche-nomination\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican John Cornyn says he will not back nomination without written confirmation $1.8bn slush fund is dead Todd Blanche\u2019s hopes of becoming US attorney general seemed to be in jeopardy on Wednesday after the Department of Justice did not provide written assurances to a key Republican senator that a $1.8bn slush fund was dead. The &#8230; <a title=\"Trump\u2019s pick for US attorney general Todd Blanche in jeopardy as vote postponed\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/29\/trumps-pick-for-us-attorney-general-todd-blanche-in-jeopardy-as-vote-postponed\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump\u2019s pick for US attorney general Todd Blanche in jeopardy as vote postponed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}