The Senate Judiciary Committee's executive business meeting is on the calendar for Tuesday at 9 a.m. in Hart 216, and Todd Blanche, nominated to be attorney general, is a listed item. The committee's own page carries the status SCHEDULED [1].
That single line supersedes the framing still attached to most coverage of this nomination. CBS News reported on July 30 that no new committee vote date had been scheduled after the vote originally set for that Thursday was delayed [2]. The committee has since put Blanche on Tuesday's agenda. Anyone reading a no-date-set line written last week is reading a fact that has expired.
What has not changed since July 30 is the dispute that caused the delay, and the most recent on-record statements from the people in it are still that Thursday's. President Trump, writing on Truth Social, called Blanche "a STAR, and everyone knows it!" and then laid out the alternative: "I have no objection to temporarily withdrawing Todd's name, if they do not do the right thing, and putting him back after Cornyn and Tillis are out of office" [2].
Read that sentence for what it concedes. A president willing to pull a nomination and refile it once two sitting senators have left office is describing the confirmation vote as a scheduling obstacle rather than as a decision. The two senators named are Republicans whose votes are not committed.
Sen. John Cornyn's objection is to the anti-weaponization fund, which he wants to stay buried: "We want to make sure that it remains dead, and that the president isn't given any immunity from future audits that the ordinary taxpayer would not enjoy" [2]. He wrote on X that "POTUS is mistaken if he believes concerns about the provisions in his tax lawsuit settlement are limited to me and Senator Tillis" [2]. Sen. Thom Tillis, who has said someone at the White House is "giving the president bad advice," put his suspicion about the disputed language plainly: "The only reason why we wouldn't move forward with this language is because that same adviser wants to bring it back to life at some point" [2].
Set those quotations against the president's post and the two senators' position is narrower than a fight over Blanche. Neither man's stated objection is to the nominee's qualifications. Cornyn's is to a fund and a tax settlement provision; Tillis's is to whether language he wants struck stays struck. We reported the fund's history and the terms of that standoff on August 2, and nothing published since has moved either man off the position quoted here.
What Tuesday's meeting will actually do with the Blanche item is not stated anywhere we could fetch. The committee page lists the nominee, the room, the time and the status, and nothing beyond that: no expanded agenda, no live video link, no count [1]. Secondary reporting we could not independently fetch suggests a vote may again not happen even at Tuesday's meeting, which we are noting rather than treating as established. We found no statement dated today from Cornyn, from Tillis, from Blanche, or from the committee.
The record as it stands the morning before is therefore short, and stating it exactly is the whole of the story. A meeting is on the calendar. Blanche is on the agenda. The last thing the president said in public about the two senators standing between his nominee and the job is that he would sooner wait them out of office than lose the vote. Whether the committee votes at 9 a.m. Tuesday is something nobody has confirmed.
