{"id":9569,"date":"2025-05-23T19:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-judiciary-leaders-spar-over-u-s-attorney-nominees\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T19:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T19:46:07","slug":"senate-judiciary-leaders-spar-over-u-s-attorney-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-judiciary-leaders-spar-over-u-s-attorney-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Judiciary leaders spar over U.S. attorney nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Leadership of the Senate Judiciary Committee is sparring over ranking member Dick Durbin\u2019s decision to block the swift confirmation of a U.S. attorney nominee \u2014 and his warning that he could do the same for others.<\/p>\n

The Illinois Democrat had announced earlier this week that he would put a hold on the U.S. attorney nominee for the Southern District of Florida, Jason Reding Qui\u00f1ones, who is now a state judge in Florida. In doing so, Durbin would create a procedural hurdle that would likely slow Qui\u00f1ones\u2019 confirmation at a time when the Trump administration has yet to confirm any U.S. attorney nominees in the Senate.<\/p>\n

Durbin, who cautioned he could do the same for other U.S. attorney nominees, likened his tactics to those deployed by Vice President JD Vance, back when he was a Republican senator from Ohio. At that time, Vance put a hold on a number of Biden-era U.S. attorney nominees, vowing he would do so<\/u><\/a> for every Department of Justice nominee in the wake of the department\u2019s second indictment against President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201c[T]here is now a new precedent for roll call votes on the Floor for confirming U.S. Attorney nominees,\u201d Durbin said in a statement. \u201cAs I\u2019ve said time and time again\u2014there cannot be one set of rules for Republicans and another set for Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n

But committee chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is accusing Durbin of \u201cplaying politics\u201d with the issue, and arguing that Vance did not, in fact, set a new precedent when he put the holds on attorney nominees towards the end of the Biden administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlacing a blanket hold on all U.S. Attorney nominees before the Trump administration has filled even a single one of the 93 Attorneys\u2019 Offices would constitute an aggressive, unprecedented attack on the American criminal justice system,\u201d Grassley said in a statement. <\/p>\n

\u201cHolds should be used selectively,” Grassley continued. “Blanket holds intended to wholly obstruct the confirmation process are misguided and threaten to undermine the Senate\u2019s advice and consent role.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leadership of the Senate Judiciary Committee is sparring over ranking member Dick Durbin\u2019s decision to block the swift confirmation of a U.S. attorney nominee \u2014 and his warning that he could do the same for others. The Illinois Democrat had announced earlier this week that he would put a hold on the U.S. attorney nominee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}