It could all come down to a single vote tomorrow.

That’s when the fate of Todd Blanche, Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next
attorney general of the United States, could be decided in the United States
Senate (specifically in the Judiciary Committee).

Blanche — who is currently (mal)functioning as acting attorney general — is so
manifestly unfit for the job that even some Republican senators are not sure he should get the permanent gig.

Urge every Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee to vote no on Todd
Blanche. [[link removed]]

Here are just a few of the numerous reasons why Blanche should not be attorney general:

* Under Blanche, the DOJ continues to willfully withhold millions of documents in flagrant violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

* Blanche created the preposterous “anti-weaponization” slush fund — which
would have transferred $1.8 billion of our tax dollars to assorted MAGA
crooks and cronies — to “settle” Trump’s bogus lawsuit against his own IRS.
And Blanche refuses to put in writing that the fund has been terminated and
will not be revived in any fashion.

* The same “settlement” purports to give Trump and his family sweeping,
unprecedented immunity from tax investigations.

* Trump fired Pam Bondi as attorney general back in April — reportedly because
she didn’t do enough to prosecute people Trump considers his “enemies.” That’s really saying
something given how much of that she actually was doing. Alarmingly, it
appears that Blanche is even more willing to weaponize the law.

* Just days after Blanche personally visited Jeffrey Epstein accomplice
Ghislaine Maxwell in prison, the convicted child sex trafficker was moved to
a minimum security facility.

* As Trump’s former personal lawyer — including in Trump’s election obstruction
cases, the classified documents case, and the Stormy Daniels “hush money”
case (where Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts related to falsifying
business records, giving him the dubious distinction of being the only U.S.
president ever convicted of a felony) — Blanche has numerous and unresolvable
conflicts of interest with anything involving Trump.

* At his recent confirmation hearing, when asked about his relationship with
Trump, Blanche actually said — under oath, on live TV — “I’m his lawyer.” He
tried to correct himself, saying “ was his lawyer.” But of course it’s no accident that Blanche initially answered
the way he did, because both he and Trump have made it clear that they see
his function as that of the president’s personal legal attack dog.

A short and direct message for every Republican on the Senate Judiciary
Committee: [[link removed]]

You know Todd Blanche has been a disaster as acting attorney general. And you
know he would be even worse as permanent AG. Do not confirm Todd Blanche.
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