PARKERSBURG — A threat by a U.S. senator from Ohio to block all Justice Department nominees over the indictment of Donald Trump has no support from West Virginia’s Republican senator.

“I don’t agree with that as a strategy,” U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said Thursday.

U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, on Tuesday vowed to block all Department of Justice nominees because of the indictment of the former president who was arraigned in a federal district court in Florida over secret classified documents at Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago.

Vance was endorsed by Trump, who also was indicted by New York and is under investigation for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection that attempted to illegally keep him in office and in Georgia for attempting to pressure state election officials to find the votes that would give him a victory in Georgia.

He pleaded not guilty on Tuesday and has pleaded not guilty to the financial fraud charges in New York.

Supporters of the former president claim he is being unjustly targeted.

While the FBI and Justice Department may have credibility issues, any issues won’t be solved by what Vance intends to do, Capito said.

“It seems like a show more than anything else,” Capito said.

Capito held her weekly press conference Thursday with West Virginia reporters from her office in Washington, D.C.

She also talked about the Halt Fentanyl Act, intended to stop at the nation’s borders the illegal flow of the deadly narcotic.

The bill passed the House, but it’s being held up in the Senate by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Capito said.

The revised broadband maps by the Federal Communications Commission now include about 80,000 West Virginians who live in unserved or underserved areas, Capito said.

The maps will be used to determine federal funding for broadband expansion and improvements.

Capito, ranking member on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, with U.S. Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, I-Ariz., Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., introduced the Carbon Removal, Efficient Agencies, Technology Expertise Act to encourage research and development of carbon removal technologies.

The proposed clean air regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency will mean the eventual shut down of coal- and natural gas-fired power plants if they can’t carbonsequester emissions as required, Capito said.

“(How) are we going to power this country?” she asked.