Cotton threatens to stall US attorney nominees from Democratic states
CNN
Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas is threatening to stall the nominations of US attorneys from states represented by Democrats on the Judiciary Committee in retribution for the committee's Democrats moving forward on a Justice Department nominee over GOP objections.
Cotton said on the Senate floor Thursday during debate on the nomination of Vanita Gupta to be associate attorney general that he would "refuse consent or time agreements for the nomination of any US attorney from any state represented by a Democrat on the Judiciary Committee." Such a move would slow down the Senate and make it harder to confirm nominees to US attorney posts, which are typically noncontroversial.President Joe Biden will receive the formal endorsement of more than a dozen members of the extended Kennedy family on Thursday, according to the Biden campaign, aiming to harness the legacy of a storied Democratic family while implicitly underscoring their near-universal rejection of a third-party challenge mounted by one of their own, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022, was out driving west of Moscow, Idaho, the night of the slayings, his attorney says, and the defense plans to offer a cell phone tower and radio frequency expert to partially corroborate this account, a court document supporting an alibi defense filed Wednesday shows.