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.

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:

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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