Dems' 'delay tactic' to 'malign' Patel and stall FBI confirmation dismissed as 'baseless' by top Sen

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Dems' 'delay tactic' to 'malign' Patel and stall FBI confirmation dismissed as 'baseless' by top Senate leader
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee urged Grassley to delay FBI director nominee Kash Patel's confirmation vote — a suggestion he dismissed as 'baseless' and politically motivated

By Breanne Deppisch Fox News
Published February 5, 2025 11:16am EST

The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee slammed Democrats on the panel this week for their attempts to schedule a second confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump's FBI director nominee, Kash Patel, describing the effort Tuesday night as a "delay tactic" designed to stall Patel from taking the reins of the sprawling law enforcement agency.

In a statement Tuesday night, Grassley criticized what he described as the "baseless" attempt by Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and other Democrats on the panel to push for a second hearing, noting that Patel testified for more than five hours before the committee and disclosed to the panel "thousands of pages" of records, as well as nearly 150 pages of responses to lawmakers' written questions.

"No one was convinced by the minority’s baseless efforts to mischaracterize and malign Kash Patel," Grassley said. "It’s additionally outrageous to assert that a nominee should come before the Senate to answer for government actions that occurred prior to their time at an agency."

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I did a search here at TBR of the name "Norm Eisen" (a/k/a CNN legal analyst). His dirty little fingers seem to be everywhere in D.C.

Left-Wing Lawyer Behind Anti-Trump Lawfare Is Running A New Op Against Kash Patel
Eisen co-founded the group behind the effort to throw then-candidate Trump off the Colorado ballot in 2024.
By: Elle Purnell
February 05, 2025
The Federalist

Norm Eisen, the founder of multiple anti-Trump groups that participated in at least four lawfare attempts to throw Trump off the ballot or in jail during his 2024 presidential candidacy, is now running an op against Trump’s nominee for FBI director, Kash Patel.

Eisen co-authored a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Dick Durbin on Monday, demanding the committee grill Patel on two issues Eisen portrayed as “ethics” concerns. Eisen claimed Patel “was issued 25,946 shares” of stock in Trump Media, where he serves on the board of directors in a role he had pledged to resign if confirmed as FBI director, and alleged Patel had potentially run afoul of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) by doing work for Qatar without registering as a foreign agent. But Patel pledged in written testimony to Congress that he had not and would not accept such shares, and a source close to the confirmation process says his work for Qatar did not rise to the definition of a foreign agent.

Eisen, who was counsel for Democrats’ first attempt to impeach Trump, is the co-founder of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), the group behind the effort to throw then-candidate Trump off the Colorado ballot in 2024. CREW “helped find the plaintiffs who brought the case in Colorado and funded the lawsuit,” according to The New York Times. This effort to deny Coloradans the right to vote for their preferred candidate was repudiated 9-0 by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Another group co-founded by Eisen, State Democracy Defenders Action, filed multiple amicus briefs in various lawfare cases against Trump, including one just last month arguing that New York Judge Juan Merchan should proceed with sentencing Trump in a sham trial despite Trump’s election to presidential office. ...

Since Patel has pledged to the Judiciary Committee he “will not accept” any shares the board may have awarded him, Eisen’s concern that Patel “has not committed to divest those holdings” appears moot.

Eisen also tried to gin up alarm about Patel not being registered as a foreign agent. ...

In other words, Eisen is throwing gobs of spaghetti against the wall and hoping some of it, even one little strand, will stick.


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