Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), who has been absent from the Senate since he suffered a fall in June, missed the vote. Since becoming acting attorney general, Blanche has defended the president’s “right” to intervene in criminal investigations and his controversial pardons of those who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The only reason the payout fund was now off the table, she said, was because Blanche needed Senate support for his nomination. “The country needs an attorney general who will check the worst impulses of this administration,” Murkowski added. The post Senate narrowly approves Todd Blanche as AG, capping tough confirmation fight appeared first on Washington Post.