Political analysts warned that Republicans have a plan to move Todd Blanche through his upcoming confirmation hearing untouched.
During an interview on Morning Shots, conservative analyst Bill Kristol and journalist Ben Parker broke down the mechanics of the two-day Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, which will decide whether to advance Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's nomination for the permanent role of Trump's attorney general.
Despite the time senators will have to confront Blanche on a slew of topics, including the Department of Justice's anti-weaponization fund and the Epstein files, Parker and Kristol predicted that Republicans will try to limit the amount of time that goes toward hitting Blanche with tough questions.
Blanche will face "the least amount of overall questioning for a major cabinet or at least for an attorney general nominee that anyone can remember," Parker said, adding that "each senator gets 10 minutes, which means that they ask one question and Blanche drones on in generalities and platitudes for 10 minutes and then gets off scot-free."
Parker described it as "really depressing, and it shows you the Republicans know they're doing something unpopular. And their solution isn't to do something more popular. The solution is 'Let's just kind of try to hide it.' It's really shameful and cowardly."
Kristol pointed out that Blanche has been the deputy AG and then the acting AG for about a year and a half, and that he doesn't even need to drone on to hide much of his record.
"He's got a big record, and so just in terms of responsibly letting him defend what he's done, asking questions, raising things he's said, raising things from court cases where he's been rebuked by judges and so forth, let him respond, that takes more than the amount of time they're allocating," Kristol said. "So even if he doesn't drone on, even if senators succeed in interrupting him and making him answer a little bit, it's just not enough time."