Intelligence director hearing cancelled as Trump pushes voter-restriction bill

The Senate Intelligence Committee postponed a nomination hearing for Jay Clayton to serve as director of national intelligence hours after President Donald Trump declared the session would not go forward, the panel’s chairman said.Early Wednesday morning, Trump said the hearing would be “canceled” until the Senate could confirm the new U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, who would be Clayton’s replacement. In a post, the president said he was derailing th