Cory Booker grills Todd Blanche at confirmation hearing
Another "unprecedented" moment in the Trump 2.0 era A US Attorney General nominee has taken the oath for confirmation hearings at the Senate, 36 hours after a judge referred that nominee to the New York bar for disciplinary review
Scott MacFarlane286Blanche is asked if he supports Trump's pardons of violent Jan 6 cop-beaters Blanche won't answer. He keeps saying "Trump has the authority" to issue the pardons. (Many have since been arrested or prisoned for new crimes, after their pardons)
Ariana Niko48It’s hard to think of another profession where someone can walk into one of the biggest job interviews of their career less than two days after being referred for disciplinary review. Even if nothing comes of it, that’s the kind of timing that deserves tough questions, not shrugs.
Josephine Imperato24Once Blanche was referred to the bar for disciplinary review, the confirmation hearing should have been cancelled.
✙ 𝐃𝐨𝐜 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 - 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🖇️ ✨ 🌙 𝟾𝟼𝟺𝟽16Indeed. The GOP's corruption IS unprecedented.
kim12Reminds me of the time GOP & partners put a criminal in the White House.
Carson9Fact is stranger than fiction these days. If a 43 count convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and accused pedophile can become president, there’s little left that can surprise us.
kim33Unfit for the legal profession or any legit job really. What could go wrong?
DocGaby16"Weiterer „beispielloser“ Moment in der Ära „Trump 2.0“ Kandidat für das Amt des US-Justizministers hat den Eid für die Anhörungen zur Bestätigung im Senat abgelegt – 36 Stunden, nachdem eine Richterin diesen Kandidaten zur disziplinarrechtlichen Überprüfung an die NY Anwaltskammer verwiesen hatte"
Stephan3Die wohl einzige Jobvoraussetzung dürfte die Bereitschaft sein, für Trump Recht und Gesetz zu brechen.
Apprentice Orchid Pollinator at Antifa Botanic Garden2He said recently about his child rapist boss: "I love you, sir"
Nana Rose🇺🇦2He is not qualified based on his interpretation of law and implementation that is directed by fucking mango Mussolini.
Neely Ashmun2Disgusting criminal to head the United States Department of Injustice.
Chris Lee2The GOP is nominating a KNOWN corrupted lawyer, the lawyer for a known pedo rapist, as the Attorney General of the United States. This is real. It’s happening today and the GOP is still in office committing war crimes and trying to destroy the ICC. Wake up.
Clayton's confirmation hearing was an absolute disaster, so much so that Tom Cotton is crashing out at the end of it
Snarky McSnarkerson140Concerned citizens are annoying lunatics now…
Cavalier Texan83They'll confirm him anyway. They are cowards.
Todd Ching62Tom Cotton's definitely going to fill the shoes of Lindsay Graham as the 'war hawk who will go on the Sunday shows' isn't he?
Pragmatic Sliver44It's giving strong "Substitute teacher who thinks he's cool" energy.
coachdondelotell.bsky.social38Cotton a fake tough guy bootlicker—rude to fellow Senators and supposed lunatic in the crowd—weak sauce!
J6 Plaque34Guy yells “World Liberty Financial” he obviously has more sense than many of the Senators in the room
David Corn2776No follow-up questions allowed by Sen. Tom Cotton, the intel. committee chair, when the panel is considering the nomination of a director of national intelligence. That's absurd and an insult to democratic governance.
Formerly #GiveHerTheGavel5The "annoying lunatic" might be the Chairman of the committee.
emmylou harris's baseball pager 🗽🫱🏿🫲🏻4any time Tom Cotton is having a bad day, I'm having a good one. if Tom Cotton has no haters I'm dead, etc.
WholeGrains4These people are NEVER good at joking. “I apologize to lunatics…”
jadyn.2hallie shoffner, i believe in you so hard.
Aunt Rose Comfort2I see that Tom is suddenly and with strained enunciation trying very hard to lose that Arkansas accent. It's not as grating as Marsha Blackburn working on those final Gs she used to drop, but then Tom has mysteriously confident aspirations what with Lyndsay and Mitch out of the halls.
David Darmofal2Harvard grad Tom Cotton is one of so many Ivy League authoritarians during this age.
If you are interested in watching the Todd Blanche Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing, you can catch it here: www.c-span.org/event/senate...
kathiescall.bsky.social19Ew no thanks. I'm sick of watching Congress spew concerns about a candidate and how dangerous that person could be only to confirm them in the end. Its all a circus act.
wickit411.bsky.social10Senator Durbin's opening statement of the Todd Blanche confirmation hearing, the American people can hear that Todd Blanche has aided Trump into being the most corrupt president in US history.
9s6.bsky.social8He is going to be confirmed! Which is a discussion as 💩!
My Snowblower can beat up your snowblower8Well thanks, but I can’t sit and watch people try and build a criminal up. Blanche really f’d his career with the Epstein files and the attempted fraud on the courts. He needs to be disbarred.
Alice Lastname7My gosh. He looks positively evil. And really mad.
Roams The Dunes6Thank goodness there’s a vital 100-year-old presiding over proceedings /s
Update: We are nearly 2 hours into Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearing and he has yet to mention the Dow. Right now, the Dow is over 50 thou.
Anna Bower106h/t to my colleague @ericcolumbus.bsky.social, who first pointed out the lack of DOW-related discourse at this confirmation hearing
Patrick De Klotz5Have they asked about Epstein-related issues? My understanding is a that a 50k Dow is a narrow defense limited to that subject matter.
Ian Miles Schlong2I need Todd Blanche to bolt up from his chair and start performing this song. And he best not miss a single note.
The Dow is not the economy.
Bathsheba in Blue1But he’s still no better than fascist Barbie.
Bryan Al'Meara1I saw a headline that stated he told the Senate he was "restoring trust" in the Justice Department... Yeah, I'd say he was delusional, but I actually to think he believes a gad damn thing that comes out of his own mouth.
Here's what to watch for in today's confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump's Attorney General-designate Todd Blanche, with insight from Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Rep. Mike Levin (D-CA), and Barb McQuade.
Michele Lamb13Any Democrats who vote for confirming the guy withholding the Epstein Files needs a primary.
Ariana Niko9I’ll be watching to see what he actually answers and what he sidesteps. Confirmation hearings usually tell you as much from the questions people dodge as the ones they answer.
The man lies for a living and protects pedophiles.
Steve7I don't watch this shit, but I look forward to reading about. 🍿
Grady Hulme6This is Trump’s personal attorney. Full stop. He should NOT be confirmed.
marytetris.bsky.social6Blanche is trump’s personal lawyer. Full stop.
Sam🏳️🌈🌊🏳️⚧️17Blanche is also suppressing release of the Epstein files! #USDemocracy
TakamineBill9Expect to see GOP craven complicity with the Trump crime family, and expect the GOP to acquiesce in the destruction of normal behavior.
KelleyBean ✌️☮️2they better not confirm this worm. poet know it
JennyDogMom 💙🐕🦋🐝🌻📚2@housedemocrats.bsky.social DO NOT VOTE FOR THIS LYING SYCOPHANT! HE WILL LIE AND PEOPLE WILL DIE!
TherapistGoneFeral🧿🪬2Can we look for him to NOT BE CONFIRMED, because that’s all we want.
The @judiciarydems.senate.gov dems should be bringing more of this kind of fire against Todd Blanche. That hearing is not meeting the moment at all. This one ⤵️is more on point.
Karla Marx8Ossoff is really good at this, and Clayton is a buffoon and a stooge, and he is unfit for any public service job.
danjasdebowy.bsky.social6Ossoff is the man right now. Do not mess with progressive Jews. He is pissed at this racist regime.
CRB5Great questions. Lying responses! Cotton protecting Clayton 🤬
Mark Anderson2Dems are not meeting the moment! Except this one. And this one. And…
Daffy1Tom Cotton is a piece of 💩
Matt Szafranski1I don't know. Clayton looks foolish, but Todd seems nervous. He can't scowl his way out of it.
“.. a gaffe that may haunt him beyond his ongoing confirmation hearing ..” @politico.com www.politico.com/live-updates...
Shoe16A gaffe is accidentally saying the truth.
Evie4A good attorney would know not to make such a damning error, js.
dancelittlesister.bsky.social3He'll be confirmed, these hearings are all just theater nowadays.
Aging Poly Pocket1Or, and hear me out on this, nothing will come of it and he'll be confirmed.
Hoppalozza1All I’m seeing in this hearing is a complicit committee on both sides. Sheldon Whitehouse understood the dire nature of this moment, all others, so far, have punted.
Ryan1Would be disqualifying if we lived in a functional democracy
During his confirmation hearing to be the next director of national intelligence, Jay Clayton was asked a simple question: Who won the 2020 election? The DOJ official refused to answer. His election fraud rhetoric also reached California when he endorsed false conspiracies about its elections.
Democracy Docket45Check out our past coverage on Jay Clayton's nomination: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
demosthenes1959.bsky.social13Clayton has a key role in Trump’s scheme to steal the 2026 election.
youlysses.bsky.social7"When did you, Mr. Clayton, answer that question?" "What was the answer, at that time, to that question?"
Mary6OK, that's it. Do not confirm this jerk.
Anton Shadow4Didn't Jay Clayton Just Get A Bunch Of Subpoenas Tossed By Federal Judge Against The NYT Attempting To Violate The 1st Amendment.
CarolK3No honor, no honesty, no principles, no values, no moral core. These are the TrumpWorld folks who betray democracy every day.
HAPPENING NOW: Trump's PERSONAL LAWYER & FIXER Todd Blanche faces high-stakes confirmation hearing for Attorney General Let that sink in... Donald's "fixer" will be the head of the Department of Justice THIS IS PURE IMPEACHABLE CORRUPTION Nov is coming... tinyurl.com/3zsukhut
Grumpy Zeus4Someone should ask Blanche why he said to Ghislaine Maxwell that there were "allegations" against her AFTER she was convicted. "Do you routinely have such little regard for juries?"
danaleighr.bsky.social3Any democrat that votes to confirm will be voted out. This includes you John Fetterman!!
foolwatcher2025.bsky.social2Show me some fucking proof justice still exists in America!!
Van Rice2He’ll get confirmed. The senate is a rubber stamp for their GodKing.
bluewo.bsky.social1If he is confirmed by spineless Dems and/or Repubs it will further confirm US as a shithole country with no one to blame but itself 🇺🇸💩🕳️
EARNED MY SPURS & UNABLE TO CURB MY CUSSING 🐎1And if he's not confirmed, he can and will remain as 'acting' AG
www.youtube.com/live/31OoMFr... Call your Senators to reject the confirmation of Todd Blanche.
Cat Alyst 🏳️⚧️🇨🇦 (they/them)6Say no to Fraud Blanche.
gracegeorge23.bsky.social6Important question for Todd Blanche: At what point did you sell your soul?
Bill3Todd Blanche is evil. He is devoid of morals, ethics, and conscience. He is wholly unqualified to be the US Attorney General. Covering up the Epstein Files, seeing all the evidence that children were trafficked for sex and raped! That’s disqualifying. Covering up murders by ICE. Disqualifying!
RoseMarie1His confirmation is unthinkable. Do NOT confirm this worm.
gracegeorge23.bsky.social1Grotesque how the two Handmaiden sycophants just sit there and fawn over him instead of any serious discussion.
Trump AG pick Todd Blanche vows to review the legality of mailing abortion drugs, revive the Comstock Act www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...
darthburkie.bsky.social15They are coming for every thing
lightthepower.bsky.social9Vows to take efforts to strip women of freedoms.
bulldogmom.bsky.social4They think it’s going to rev up their base for the midterms but it’s going to backfire.
Alicia M.1Make rape and Incest great again! That is what this "administration" provides to us.
Huge fuckup from Blanche calling himself "Trump's lawyer" during this confirmation hearing.
Julie - 🇺🇦I Stand With Ukraine 🇺🇦6He's having a hard time keeping his lies straight. Fuck Blanche.
MJ 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈4Republicans will overlook that. They’d love him to continue to protect Trump from any prosecution.
blueeyedlady.bsky.social3Do you honestly think that matters when everyone who supports him is paid off?
Zenevas Muroa3Does not matter. These worthless lumps will confirm him anyway.
SheiSho3Do you think it will change a single Republican mind in that room? I don't.
Jeff Duda1Doubt it does anything to reduce his chances of being confirmed.
GOP Senator John Cornyn goes after Trump's Attorney General pick Todd Blanche on Trump's "anti-weaponization" fund in surprising moment during Blanche's confirmation hearing. READ MORE: www.ms.now/liveblog/con...
Trevor Foster5There is no settlement & he was just nailed with sanctions & a bar referral for disciplinary action by a US Judge for that. These useless Senators need to do proper research: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
yololionvoter3.bsky.social4Must be nice to be able to break your spouses teeth 🦷 in, while holding an infant and then threaten her with a gun. Be able to call just call Donny. Sometimes the rest of us just have to “pay our dues”. GOP on GOP Crime is a thing folks. Source: Congress.gov share.google/Ha2ueSOzKTw1...
ksrnow2And then Cornyn will confirm.
cptnjt.bsky.social2Cornyn is my Senator. He will vote to confirm Blanche and propose naming a street after him in Austin. Guaranteed.
Reggie1The Cornyn squeeze. First time maybe holding on to his integrity.