But #Trump torched that plan in his social media post early Wednesday morning, just hours before Clayton was scheduled to have a confirmation hearing before the #Senate #Intelligence Committee. He said he would delay the proceedings, all but guaranteeing that #BillPulte would take the job at the end of this week as the acting director of national intelligence [ #DNI].
#VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #elections #Constitution #democracy #VoterSuppression #TrumpCoup #Trump
And #Trump threatened to block the extension of the powerful #surveillance statute, § 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or #FISA, which expired Saturday, unless a measure to reauthorize it was attached to #elections #legislation that would impose #national restrictions on #voter #identification & #registration.
Senate majority leader John Thune (R-SD) said repeatedly the elections measure does not have sufficient votes to pass & warned attaching it would “tank” the FISA bill.
