One Republican senator wants to block every single person President Biden nominates for Justice Department positions – unless all charges against Donald Trump are dropped.

That’s right: Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) is holding our government hostage – so he can hand Donald Trump a blank check to violate the law.

This is a shameless attempt to place Donald Trump above the law, and could leave critical government positions unfilled for months – including the Director of the Office on Violence Against Women, whose nomination is pending.

The Justice Department conducted a lengthy and thorough investigation into the documents they found at Donald Trump’s resort, and a federal grand jury of American citizens from across the political spectrum found there was evidence to indict him on 37 counts of obstructing justice and mishandling classified documents.

Yet instead of letting the case go to trial and be ruled upon in a court of law, Sen. Vance is threatening to “grind [the Justice] department to a halt” until the charges are dropped.

We’ve already seen the dramatic consequences of this sort of Senate power play – like when Mitch McConnell denied then-President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee a hearing or a vote for nearly a year so that President Trump could fill the vacancy instead.

We can’t let our government be ruled by petty grudges or partisan revenge plots. And one senator doesn’t get to disrupt our whole system and hold up crucial nominations just because he’s mad that Donald Trump is facing consequences for his actions.