Vance leads new conservative pledge to block Biden nominees

Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) is leading a group of Senate conservatives who unveiled a pledge Thursday to block the fast-tracking of President Biden’s judicial nominees and U.S. attorney nominations in “response to the current administration’s persecution” of former President Trump.

The senators who signed the pledge say they will “not permit the fast-tracking of nominees who have suggested the Trump prosecutions were reasonable [or] endorsed President Trump’s guilt in these sham proceedings,” referring to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) prosecution of Trump on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.