New Mexico sued the Justice Department on August 5 for stonewalling its criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's ranch. On August 8, the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general anyway.
Todd Blanche was confirmed as attorney general 50-49 before dawn on Saturday. Fourteen Republicans we track voted yes — and thirteen of them had already voted to put him at the Justice Department once before.
Days into the job, South Carolina's appointed senator says she'd blow up the filibuster to pass the SAVE Act — the opposite of her brother's position. Her introductory ad is two culture-war lines. Her primary is August 11.
Before leaving town for a month of vacation, the Senate held an overnight vote on a brand-new photo ID bill written by Ohio Sen. Jon Husted. It failed. Fifteen Republicans we track voted for it anyway.
She ran South Carolina's Commission for the Blind and helped end subminimum wage for disabled workers. Two days into the Senate she voted to keep prior authorization in Medicare, and two weeks later against restoring child care funding.
Federal records now list Darline Graham as sponsor of Fund for America's Future — the leadership PAC Lindsey Graham built. Campaign finance experts say a sibling-to-sibling handoff like this has almost no precedent.
Darline Graham says the first bill she cosponsored is the SAVE Act — and she'd cancel the Senate's August recess to pass it. Her argument for it gets the bill wrong.