.MaddowBlog: Why Senate Republicans balked at Trump's ATF nominee
Canterbury's nomination yesterday afternoon -- there was no explanation given -- and it's not clear when, or even whether, a new ATF nominee will be chosen.awful in order to draw objections from Senate Republicans who ordinarily do as Trump directs them to do, but in this case, it's not that simple.
And that's why this makes sense. Trump chose an ATF nominee whose views on gun policy conflicted with Republican orthodoxy -- and while GOP senators are nearly always inclined to go along with the White House's wishes, this was a step they were unprepared to take.federal prosecutor B. Todd Jones to serve as the ATF director, which, in a way, was a historic breakthrough.
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