The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general to the Senate floor on Tuesday in a 12-10 vote. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) can schedule a vote to confirm Blanche, who has served as acting attorney general since April, before the full Senate. Thom Tillis (R-NC) and John Cornyn (R-TX), who held up the nomination until Blanche rescinded an order that had established an Anti-Weaponization Fund on Sunday. President Donald Trump said that Cornyn had held up the nomination as retribution after Trump endorsed his opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, in the race for the Republican nomination in the Lone Star State’s U.S. Senate race several months ago. “There’s essentially never been a group of people treated so badly as these people, and this fund, this fund was not for me,” he said.