Biden’s Archives Pick Avoids GOP Showdown Over Trump FBI Search

The Senate confirmation hearing for President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the National Archives was a mostly perfunctory event Wednesday despite the agency’s lengthy public battle to retrieve classified documents from former President Donald Trump.

Senate Republicans who had hinted at a potentially rocky hearing for Colleen Shogan largely took a pass on grilling the nominee about the agency’s involvement preceding the August FBI search of Trump’s Florida estate that turned up boxes of classified documents, including ones with the US government’s highest top-secret rating.

Only three of seven Republicans on the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee ...