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BATON ROUGE: A New York doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in the Deep South state, which has one of the strictest neartotal abortion bans in the country, reported Associated Press. WASHINGTON: The Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines on February 13 to advance the nomination of Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s pick for FBI Director, reported AP.
The committee, it said, voted 12-10 to send the nomination to the Republicancontrolled Senate for full consideration. A final confirmation vote, according to the AP report, is likely next week.
So far even nominees once seen as having uncertain prospects, have been able to marshal sufficient support from Republicans eager to fall in line with Trump’s agenda.
According to the Associated Press. Patel has raised alarm for his lack of management experience compared to other FBI Directors and because of a vast catalogue of incendiary past statements.
At his confirmation hearing last month, Patel said Democrats were taking some of his comments out of context or misunderstanding the broader point that he was trying to make, such as when he proposed shutting down the FBI headquarters in Washington and turning it into a museum for the so-called “deep state.”
He denied the idea that a list in his book of Government officials who he said were part of a “deep state” amounted to an “enemies list,” calling that a “total mischaracterisation.” Patel, who was selected by Trump in November to replace Christopher Wray as FBI Director, would inherit an agency riven by turmoil amid the recent forced departures of a group of senior executives and by the Justice Department demand for the names of all agents who participated in investigations related to January 6.
