Todd Blanche
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Todd Wallace Blanche is an American attorney and former prosecutor who has served as the acting United States attorney general since April 2026. Blanche has also served as the United States deputy attorney general since January 2025 and as the acting librarian of Congress since May 2025; the legality of the latter appointment has been disputed.
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Jun 3, 2026
Far Right
Acting AG Blanche is publicly exposing how the Biden-era DOJ cast such a wide investigative net that even Mar-a-Lago gardeners and low-level employees required criminal defense attorneys.
Blanche is doing exactly what the far right demanded: documenting and publicizing the weaponization of federal law enforcement against Trump and anyone in his orbit, validating years of warnings about selective prosecution.
Jun 3, 2026
Lean Left
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche refused to put in writing his claim that the DOJ's anti-weaponization fund was being shut down, during a House hearing with Rep. Grace Meng.
Blanche's refusal to commit in writing is exactly the kind of unaccountable stonewalling that lean-left critics see as proof the DOJ is being run as a political operation rather than an independent law enforcement agency.
Jun 3, 2026
Far Left
Trump's acting Attorney General was rushed to Capitol Hill to announce the administration would not move forward with the $1.8 billion January 6 slush fund, while simultaneously resisting full disclosure of Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
The far left sees Blanche as a loyalist enforcer protecting a corrupt executive, not a legitimate law enforcement officer, and his reported victim-blaming in the Epstein case is treated as evidence that the DOJ is structurally captured by Trump's personal interests.