President Trump’s nomination of Jay Clayton to serve as Director of National Intelligence is one of those Washington moves that manages to be both calming and concerning at the same time. On one hand, Clayton is a serious person with a serious résumé. He’s not some cable-news goblin pulled from the fever swamp and handed…
Senate Republicans, the Nuclear Option & What’s at Stake
So, here’s the scene in Washington: President Trump has a lineup of nominees—ambassadors, undersecretaries, assistant secretaries, the whole alphabet soup of federal posts—cooling their heels in political purgatory. Many of them had already survived the gauntlet of committee hearings, some even with bipartisan nods of approval. You’d think that would earn them a reasonably quick…
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