Grassley reschedules business meeting to consider judges blocked by Flake

By Pete Kasperowicz

Published December 4, 2018 12:31am ET

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Grassley reschedules business meeting to consider judges blocked by Flake — Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, flanked by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, left, and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, holds a news conference to refute Senate Democrats who are intensifying their fight over documents related to Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's stint as staff secretary at the White House, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018. | (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, on Monday rescheduled a business meeting to consider 26 judicial nominations that are being blocked by Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz.

But it wasn’t clear Monday that Flake was ready to approve them. Flake has said he would oppose the remaining field of President Trump’s nominees until the Senate votes on a bill to protect special counsel Robert Mueller from being fired by Trump for political reasons.

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