Victims of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein blasted Todd Blanche after meeting with the acting attorney general at the Department of Justice, a sit-down Sen. Thom Tillis urged Blanche to have as he seeks Senate confirmation as the permanent U.S. attorney general.
Those victims called Blanche condescending and evasive, saying he seemed motivated to talk to them face-to-face Thursday afternoon solely to get his nomination by President Donald Trump advanced by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"After meeting with Todd Blanche, I feel even more confident in urging senators to vote against his confirmation as the United States' Attorney General," Annie Farmer, one of those victims, said in a statement Thursday night.
Palestinian prisoners could be held in jails surrounded by crocodile-filled moats, under proposals put forward by the Israeli government.
Idit Silman, Israel's environmental protection minister, has reclassified the Nile crocodile as a "tended wild animal", paving the way for their use at detention centres.
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"Israel's nature and parks authority said the proposal was not possible because wild animals may only be held for educational and research purposes.
"We need to protect them, not have them protect us. That is not the spirit of the law," officials said.
But by classifying the Nile crocodile as a "tended wild animal", the reptiles will be allowed to be kept on prison grounds, subject to animal welfare requirements."
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The cruelty is indeed the point.