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work @EPPCdc; blog @NRO Bench Memos; Confirmation Tales substack; co-editor (1) SCALIA SPEAKS, (2) ON FAITH, (3) THE ESSENTIAL SCALIA
D.C. eppc.org/author/edward_… Joined May 2010
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Sure wish that AG Blanche had a clear understanding of what constitutes a *criminal threat*.
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.@AGToddBlanche on Democrats: "They've threatened donors, they've threatened individuals who are in college and might want to work for conservative institutions or for a conservative government or for President Trump, and that is extremely troubling. It should be troubling to everybody in this country."
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Andy McCarthy: The GOP’s Midterm Annihilation Comes Down to One Factor nationalreview.com/2026/11/the-go…
“Republicans got their clocks cleaned this week because they made Trump the center of their universe, as if Congress did not exist other than as a presidential pom-pom squad. Unleashed, Trump has governed like a lunatic.”
www.nationalreview.com The GOP’s Midterm Annihilation Comes Down to One Factor | National Review It’s not a single policy, even if there is no gainsaying the significance of the Iran war and the tariffs.
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Among his many distinctions, John Eisenberg was a law clerk for Justice Thomas. He’s an outstanding lawyer. Todd Blanche is an embarrassment.
Ben Penn @benjaminpenn 3d
SCOOP: AG Todd Blanche pushed out DOJ's top national security official John Eisenberg today after numerous frustrations, including stalled progress on Trump demands for subpoenaing reporters to name sources in stories critical of White House news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/bl…
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Understatement alert!
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Appointing Pete Hegseth to the Senate seat strikes me as an unwise move, unless Blackburn wants someone who will not run in the special election for the seat in 2028.

Whether or not you think Hegseth is doing, as Trump put it, “a very good job,” nationally just 32 percent of voters approve of the way Pete Hegseth is handling his job as Secretary of Defense. Maybe that number is a little higher in Tennessee, but I wouldn’t count on it being dramatically higher. An appointed Hegseth could well be a deeply flawed incumbent senator come 2028. And if you say, “hey, it’s Tennessee, the Republicans always win…” well, a lot of people were saying things like that about Texas and South Carolina and Kansas up until this week.
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