{"id":1421,"date":"2026-06-08T22:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2026-06-08T22:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:40:06","slug":"trump-formally-nominates-blanche-to-be-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1421","title":{"rendered":"Trump formally nominates Blanche to be attorney general"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>June 8 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday formally nominated Todd Blanche to serve as attorney \u200bgeneral, moving to install his former personal lawyer as the top U.S. law enforcement official.<\/div>\n<div>Trump submitted Blanche&#8217;s name to the U.S. \u200cSenate, the White House said, days after committing to nominating him. He has been serving as acting attorney general since April.<\/div>\n<div>Blanche&#8217;s nomination sets up a test of Trump&#8217;s sway over Senate Republicans, who have shown an increasing willingness to resist parts of the president&#8217;s agenda after months of largely acceding to his demands. Blanche would need near-unanimous Republican \u200bsupport in the Senate, which Republicans control by a narrow 53-47 margin.<\/div>\n<div>The nomination is a vote of confidence in Blanche after \u200bthe Justice Department was forced to scrap a plan to create a nearly $1.8 billion fund for victims of what Trump has \u2060called government &#8220;weaponization.&#8221; The plan drew fierce backlash, much of it directed at Blanche, from Republican and Democratic lawmakers.<\/div>\n<div>Republican senators led the charge against \u200bthe weaponization fund, refusing to vote to fund Trump&#8217;s immigration crackdown until Blanche committed to scrapping the planned fund.<\/div>\n<div>Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina, a key \u200bRepublican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, has previously voiced skepticism about Blanche over the weaponization fund and a criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey.<\/div>\n<div>Trump has looked favorably on Blanche&#8217;s moves as acting attorney general to accelerate cases against his adversaries, including securing a second indictment against Comey and bringing charges against the Southern Poverty Law \u200bCenter, a prominent civil rights organization.<\/div>\n<div>Following the nomination, Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the Republican chair of the Senate Judiciary panel, lauded Blanche for \u200bhis &#8220;commitment to transparency and support for law enforcement.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Blanche is well-qualified and has shown his dedication to restoring law and order across our country,&#8221; Grassley said.<\/div>\n<div>The panel&#8217;s \u200ctop Democrat, \u2060Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, blasted the selection.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cDonald Trump has been engaged in the most corrupt enterprise in the history of the Presidency,&#8221; Durbin said in a statement. &#8220;Todd Blanche apparently has not noticed.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>TRUMP DEFENDER<\/div>\n<div>Blanche, 51, took over leadership of the Justice Department after Trump fired Pam Bondi in April amid tension over the agency&#8217;s release of files related to convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and frustration that the department was not moving forcefully enough \u200bagainst the White House&#8217;s supposed political \u200benemies.<\/div>\n<div>Blanche, who served as Bondi&#8217;s \u2060top deputy, previously defended Trump in three of the four criminal cases he faced in his years out of office. To his critics, Blanche has continued acting like Trump&#8217;s personal defender while overseeing a department that \u200bis supposed to pursue justice even-handedly.<\/div>\n<div>Blanche signed off on a sweeping deal barring tax authorities from auditing years \u200bof past tax claims \u2060by Trump, his relatives and his businesses. He has also openly embraced an ongoing criminal probe into whether past investigations of Trump amounted to a conspiracy against him.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Blanche has abandoned what he learned about blind justice and ethical law enforcement as a career federal prosecutor,&#8221; said Stacey Young, the head of \u2060Justice Connection, \u200ba group seeking to support DOJ employees targeted by the Trump administration.<\/div>\n<div>Blanche is a \u200bformer federal prosecutor in New York who had little involvement in politics prior to his representation of Trump. He has won the trust of Trump&#8217;s allies by backing claims that \u200bTrump was mistreated by the legal system.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1419\">Pope Leo warns Spain\u2019s parliament the world is in \u2018profound\u2019 crisis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1415\">OpenAI files for US IPO after Anthropic as AI giants head to public markets<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=1413\">US adds visa restrictions for Nicaraguans over death of indigenous leader<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday formally nominated Todd Blanche to serve as attorney \u200bgeneral, moving to install his former personal lawyer as the top U.S. law enforcement official.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,14,12,17],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-constitutional-law","tag-government","tag-human-rights","tag-public-policy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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