{"id":77106,"date":"2026-08-07T08:56:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/murkowski-wont-vote-for-trumps-nomination-of-blanche-as-attorney-general\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T08:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:56:02","slug":"murkowski-wont-vote-for-trumps-nomination-of-blanche-as-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/murkowski-wont-vote-for-trumps-nomination-of-blanche-as-attorney-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Murkowski won\u2019t vote for Trump\u2019s nomination of Blanche as attorney general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Republican is concerned that proposed fund to compensate January 6 rioters will proceed even though Blanche confirmed it was dead<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/aug\/07\/donald-trump-ohio-republican-max-miller-domestic-abuse-allegations-birthright-citizenship-us-politics-latest\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lisa Murkowski, Alaska\u2019s moderate Republican senator, announced early on Friday that she will not vote forTodd Blanche as US attorney general, leaving his confirmation in the post down to a single remaining vote.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s defeat of Trump in the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/07\/murkowski-todd-blanche-attorney-general\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Republican is concerned that proposed fund to compensate January 6 rioters will proceed even though Blanche confirmed it was dead US politics live \u2013 latest updates Lisa Murkowski, Alaska\u2019s moderate Republican senator, announced early on Friday that she will not vote forTodd Blanche as US attorney general, leaving his confirmation in the post down &#8230; <a title=\"Murkowski won\u2019t vote for Trump\u2019s nomination of Blanche as attorney general\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/07\/murkowski-wont-vote-for-trumps-nomination-of-blanche-as-attorney-general\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Murkowski won\u2019t vote for Trump\u2019s nomination of Blanche as attorney general\">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-77106","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\/77106","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=77106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}