Senate sets new date for Jay Clayton's confirmation hearing after Trump derailed the previous one

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Source: NBC News

July 7, 2026, 11:31 PM EDT / Updated July 8, 2026, 1:08 PM EDT


The Senate Intelligence Committee scheduled a new confirmation hearing Tuesday for Jay Clayton’s nomination to be director of national intelligence after President Donald Trump upended the initial date. The panel plans to meet July 15, nearly a month after the earlier hearing was postponed.

Trump last month nominated Clayton, who has been serving as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and the Senate committee scheduled a confirmation hearing for June 17. Trump, however, demanded that the Intelligence Committee abandon the hearing just hours before it was set to take place over disagreements with Democrats.

Trump said at the time that Clayton’s nomination should not move forward until James McDonald, a partner at top law firm Sullivan & Cromwell and a former federal prosecutor, was confirmed to replace Clayton in New York. The White House does not appear to have sent McDonald’s nomination to the Senate yet.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Clayton’s new hearing date and whether Trump had any objections to it.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-sets-new-date-jay-clayton-confirmation-hearing-trump-derailed-rcna352541

[Bayard]

1. How in the world,

Does a U.S. attorney qualify to be Director of National Intelligence? I guess the same way all of trump's cabinet does--slavish devotion.

[littlemissmartypants]

3. Read his bio.

It's not what you know but who you know.

[littlemissmartypants]

2. If you haven't already, please read his bio. This guy is connected but doesn't have ANY experience pertinent to the job.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Clayton_(attorney)

In February 2021, The Wall Street Journal reported that Apollo Global Management had appointed Clayton as its board's lead independent director, a newly-formed position. The decision occurred as the firm was implementing an overhaul of its governance following allegations that its chief executive, Leon Black, had an extensive relationship with the financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.[52]