NEW: Senate Republicans are blocking the confirmation of Biden's pick to oversee the hundreds of prosecutions stemming from the January 6 attack on the Capitol, people familiar with the matter tell @thisisinsider ($) by @cryanbarber businessinsider.com/senate-republi…
The Republicans' "hold" on the nomination is not based on any objection to Matt Graves, an ex-federal prosecutor whom Biden nominated in July to serve as US attorney in Washington, DC. Instead, his nomination "is being used for leverage," Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton told Insider.
“We've learned this on condition that we not speak about it specifically, but I can tell you that what we have learned is that the Graves nomination is not being held up for any reason connected to the nomination” said Norton, who represents DC in Congress as a non-voting member.
"'Caught in the fire' is how I would put it," Norton added, "because it doesn't have anything to do with him."
Sen. Chuck Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told @thisisinsider on Monday evening that he was not aware of the hold.
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