{"id":2399696,"date":"2025-02-06T11:34:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T16:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-force-delay-on-kash-patels-nomination-to-lead-fbi-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T11:34:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T16:34:46","slug":"democrats-force-delay-on-kash-patels-nomination-to-lead-fbi-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-force-delay-on-kash-patels-nomination-to-lead-fbi-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats force delay on Kash Patel\u2019s nomination to lead FBI &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-force-delay-on-kash-patels-nomination-to-lead-fbi-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2399696&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the recent\u2063 delay by Democrats on the Senate Judiciary \u2062Committee regarding Kash Patel&#8217;s nomination to \u200bbecome the director of the FBI.The committee decided to &#8220;hold over&#8221; Patel&#8217;s nomination for one week after voicing serious concerns about his past associations and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youtube-suspends-demonetizes-one-america-news-network\/\" title=\"YouTube Suspends, Demonetizes One America News Network\">conspiracy theories<\/a>, which they believe could\u200d impact his\u2064 ability to lead the agency. Sen. Dick durbin criticized Patel, stating he lacks the necessary temperament for \u2062the role.This decision came after discussions in\u200c which Democrats urged for a second confirmation hearing to address issues surrounding recent personnel changes within the FBI, a request that Republican Chairman Chuck Grassley rejected, labeling it as\u200c a delay tactic. <\/p>\n<p>During his\u200c hearing,Patel attempted to reassure committee members of his impartiality and acknowledged Joe Biden&#8217;s victory \u2063in\u2063 the 2020 election. Should\u2063 Patel\u2019s nomination advance out \u200cof the committee, it will require a full Senate vote, where the Republican\u2062 majority means he has a \u2064pathway to confirmation despite potential dissent among some GOP senators.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Democrats force delay on Kash Patel&rsquo;s nomination to lead FBI<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1979240\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Democrats on a key <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=senate+judiciary+committee&amp;rlz=1C5GCCM_en&amp;oq=senate&amp;gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBggAEEUYOzIGCAAQRRg7MgYIARBFGDsyEggCEEUYOxiDARixAxiABBiKBTIGCAMQRRg8MgYIBBBFGEAyBggFEEUYPDIGCAYQRRg8MgYIBxBFGEDSAQc4NzVqMGo3qAIAsAIA&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Senate committee\">Senate committee<\/a> delayed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kash-patel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Kash Patel<\/a>&lsquo;s nomination to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">FBI<\/a> director for one week, moving to &ldquo;hold over&rdquo; the nomination, although he is still on track to be confirmed by the full Senate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3291598\/kash-patel-stares-down-tough-confirmation-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">voice<\/a> serious concerns about Patel&rsquo;s nomination, saying the Trump ally frequently pushes conspiracy theories and misinformation, has close associations with racist people, and has vowed to weaponize the justice system to investigate the president&rsquo;s political enemies.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate Judiciary Committee met on Thursday morning to discuss whether to approve Patel out of the committee, but Democrats moved to &ldquo;hold over&rdquo; the nomination &mdash; with the committee&rsquo;s ranking member, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), arguing Patel &ldquo;does not have the temperament for the job.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Durbin and all the Democrats on the panel urged Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) to delay Patel&rsquo;s confirmation vote until the nominee agreed to testify for a second time under oath about the recent removals and reassignments of FBI civil servants, among other things.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Grassley declined to grant a second confirmation hearing and described the effort as a &ldquo;delay tactic&rdquo; designed to stall Patel from taking the reins of the law enforcement agency.<\/p>\n<p>Patel&rsquo;s confirmation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3306047\/four-takeaways-kash-patel-senate-confirmation-hearing-fbi-director\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">hearing<\/a> went more smoothly than the hearings for some of President Donald Trump&rsquo;s other Cabinet nominees. During his Jan. 30 hearing, Patel sought to assuage worries about his loyalty to Trump and brash rhetoric. He declared that Joe Biden won the 2020 election and said he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3305098\/kash-patel-disavow-trump-clemency-j6-defendants-assaulted-officers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">disagreed with the president&rsquo;s pardons<\/a> of violent Jan. 6 defendants. He vowed that if confirmed, he would only open investigations when there was a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">constitutional factual basis&#038;rdquo<\/a>; to do so amid concerns he would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lol-white-house-denies-prior-knowledge-of-mar-a-lago-raid\/\" title=\"Lol: White House Denies Prior Knowledge of Mar-a-Lago Raid\">target political adversaries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once passed out of committee, Patel&rsquo;s nomination would head to a full Senate vote. The Republican Party has a 53-47 majority in the upper chamber, which means any of Trump&rsquo;s Cabinet nominees can lose three Republicans&rsquo; support and still get confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>There are several Republican senators to watch during the floor vote, including Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Susan Collins (R-ME), and John Curtis (R-UT), who have not indicated how they will vote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1979240\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1979240\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats delay Kash Patel&#8217;s FBI director nomination by a week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2657,"featured_media":2399697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AP25030562279212.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3685,5591,44864,49932,32076],"class_list":["post-2399696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-democrats","tag-fbi","tag-kash-patel","tag-nomination-delay","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AP25030562279212.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2399696"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399700,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2399696\/revisions\/2399700"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2399697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2399696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2399696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2399696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}