This Saturday, Todd Blanche’s nomination to be our nation’s next attorney general — the top law enforcement official in the federal government — will be coming up for a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.

Blanche should not have made it this far. But two outgoing Republican senators on a key committee, John Cornyn (Texas) and Thom Tillis (North Carolina) — following some performative displays of integrity — caved in and voted to advance Blanche’s nomination to the full Senate.

Don’t be fooled — as Cornyn and Tillis are pretending to be — by Blanche issuing a brief written statement regarding the preposterous “settlement” in Donald Trump’s bogus lawsuit against his own IRS.

Contrary to some news reports, Blanche’s statement does NOT mean the $1.776 billion slush fund he concocted can never be brought back.

Blanche’s statement does NOT prevent the Trump Regime from finding other ways to funnel our tax dollars to assorted MAGA crooks and cronies.

And Blanche’s statement does NOT rescind the sweeping immunity from tax investigations the “settlement” conferred on Donald Trump, members of his family, and their numerous businesses.

Here are just a few other 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• At his 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.

Tell every member of the United States Senate:

Todd Blanche is manifestly unfit to be attorney general. You know it. And the American people deserve better. Do not confirm Todd Blanche, even if it means standing up to Donald Trump for once.

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This is a message for the entire Senate, so take action today even if one or both of your senators is a die-hard Trumpist.

Thanks for taking action.

For justice,

- Lisa Gilbert & Robert Weissman, Co-Presidents of Public Citizen


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